The document discusses Bangalore's transition from a Garden City to a Garbage City due to improper waste management. It notes a lack of civic rules, implementation, awareness, and personal discipline regarding waste. Various waste streams are described, including food, garden, dry, medical, and debris waste. Issues with current landfill sites far from the city are also discussed. Solutions proposed include segregating waste, composting organic materials, and establishing dry waste collection centers. The need for managing waste through a four-part process of segregation, recycling, composting, and managed disposal is emphasized.

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We all need to save our earth

2. Bangalore used to be a
Garden City
Now it has become a
Garbage City

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6. EXISTING LANDFILL SITES IN AND AROUND BANGALORE
40 kms from the centre of the city
30 ft

7. EXISTING LANDFILL SITES IN AND AROUND BANGALORE
Why should the waste go
all this distance and then
be RETREIVED and
brought back to Bangalore
…….

9. WHY GARBAGE CITY
• No civic rules unlike western countries.
• No implementation.
• No awareness of the impact on life.
• Complete lack of personal discipline.
• No facilitation of garbage management by
the civic authorities-only garbage
disposal.

10. Municipal garbage consists of
• Food waste
• Garden waste
• Dry waste-paper /plastic/glass/metal/
e-waste and other dry waste
• Medical waste
• Debris and much more

11. • It is the plastic bag culture
that has become the bane of
our life.
• Each plastic bag is used for
only a few minutes before
disposing.
• Each of us uses 22,000 plastic
bags in an average life time.
• 8% of the world’s oil
production is used for the
production of plastic leading to
global warming.

12. Do you know how much
GARBAGE
YOUR
house/office
GENERATES?

13. OR IS IT OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF
MIND?

14. what happens to your garbage?
Throw it out of your home picked up by your pourakarmika in
the push cart.

15. Garbage dumped on the road corners Eaten by animals esp. the cows and dogs
Mixed garbage filled in the trucks

16. unsorted garbage causes
• Air pollution,
• Water pollution,
• Disease (due to mosquitoes/flies),
• co2,
• clogged drains etc.
Bangalore produces
50 lakh kgs of garbage per day.

17. Breeding Ground
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18. The Need
The improper mixed waste disposal
• generates carbon dioxide, methane (Global
warming.)
• Every cubic meter of garbage can foster about
7.5 lakh flies, breeding ground for disease
bearing bacteria.
• Stray dogs, pests like Mice, Rats, Cockroaches
etc. dwell and thrive in heaps of garbage
disposed irresponsibly.
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19. Towards Zero Waste
… for a Sustainable Future
Composting/ Recycling
Incineration/
Bio Methanation
Land filling
10%
MANAGED VS. DISPOSAL recycled
90%
land filled
SEGREGATED AGGREGATED
90%
recycled
10 %
land filled
AT SOURCE LANDFILL
YIMBY NIMBY
Not In My
Yes In My Backyard Backyard

21. • If you are told you can save the earth by
spending less than 5 minutes of a 1440
minute day would you do it?
• If u are not part of the solution you are
part of the problem.

22. Waste composition
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23. Managing Waste is a four part process
starting with
• Segregation at source
• Recycling,
• Composting , and
• Managed Disposal of remaining waste.

24. We Segregate all day
• Cooking.
• Clothes.
• Books to school
• Everything in the
house
• Documentation in the
office
• Why not garbage?

25. Every family produces about ½ to 1 kg of garbage
every day
If we cannot segregate
1 kg of garbage
that we produce on a daily basis ?
How can we expect
any local body
to deal with it???
Most efficient machine to segregate is our hands
No automated machines are needed

26. MIXED GARBAGE
POLLUTES
paper gets soggy
plastic gets dirty
wet waste gets contaminated
SEGREGATED GARBAGE
is CLEAN
CAN BE RECYCLED
and REUSED
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27. Why must you and I do it?
• Cannot contaminate the earth any more.
• If we continue like this then we will have

28. Why take the expensive option?

29. MANAGED…
Types of Waste
•Wet waste
•Dry waste
•E waste
•Garden waste
•Rejects

30. Think before you throw.

31. Simple
Two dust bins under the kitchen sink
• Into one put all the kitchen waste
no plastic liner.
wash daily
• Into the other all the dry waste
papers
plastics
carry bags
plastic wrappers of food,
cover of the bread etc.
One will not soil the other.

32. Unwanted materials turn into waste in the
following manner
Storage time Status of garbage
12 hours Odorless fresh raw material
24 hours Smelly decomposed material
72 hours and more Worm (maggots) infested waste
Raw
Odorless
Garbage
within
12 hrs

33. Food waste can be cow eatable waste and
non-cow eatable waste

34. Cows-traditional method
• Cows eat raw vegetables and
food waste
• Each eats about 35kgs of food
waste per day.
• Converts it into dung in 12 hrs
• Dung used to make biogas and
the slurry can be used for
vermi composting.
Cows are the best machines
to deal with wet waste-no
strikes, no pay .no increments
and work 365 days a year.

35. Clean dry waste is collected and stored
in the homes to be collected once a week.
Why should
plastic be
converted into
oil? Plastic
must be
converted into
other plastic
products.
No stink,
No cockroaches/mosquitoes/rats/flies

39. Burning leaves
produces air
pollution
Loss of precious
resource
Burning leaves is routine
Each leaf is precious-
do not burn it

40. Shredding the leaves at home

41. • Composting the
aerobic way in
your garden
Mix the veg and food waste
with cow dung and put it on the
heap above the ground

42. MANAGED… “ Investment required
Infrastructure required onsite”
DRY LEAF > COMPOSTED
GARDEN LITTER ( into
manure )
POOJA
Large quantities need to be reduced
in volume through mobile shredders
Composted dry leaf and garden litter
in public parks could produce
manure onsite with small investment
Huge savings in water consumption,
as soil conditioned with manure
retains more water
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43. Leaf composting -simple
Do not burn the leaves
Compost them.

45. Home Compost used to make
a terrace garden at home

46. Put separate bins in all areas
Creates awareness among all people

47. Wet waste
• Converted into manure-by composting at
home –daily dump
• Vermi composting
• Aerobic composting
• EM solutions
• Organic waste composter
• Bio gas conversion

48. Composting organic waste at home
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49. MANAGED… “ Investment required
Infrastructure required in-house
VEG/FOOD > COMPOSTED ”
WASTE ( into manure )
Medium
Apts
Small
Apts
Large
Apts
Rotating / Tumbler
composter Organic Waste Converter (OWC)
Aerobic Digester

50. RE
BEFO
Waste Management – Campus
Home Guards , Civil Defence,
Fire and Allied Services,HQ
Waste Retrieved June 2010
Kgs
Paper 93
Plastic 67
160
DRY
E
WAST
Leaf waste generated 1.5 tonnes
Composted on site 1.5 tonnes
LEAF ING
T ER CO MPOST
AF

51. Waste Management – Market
Malleswaram Market
Waste Retrieved May 2010--- 24 tons
Composted on site 8.25 tonnes
( 800 kgs of waste per day ,
275 kgs of compost per day)
Dry waste generated 50 Kgs
City Market
Dry waste picked up 3.5 tons
( per fortnight)

52. Home biogas plant
The food waste produced
in my house is placed in
the chute and is
converted into biogas by
the next morning –the bio
gas stove can burn.
This is a slow flame, milk
boils slowly to give lots of
cream and food cooks
with extra flavour

54. DRY WASTE COLLECTION
CENTRE

55. Your waste is someone else's
raw material
Dry waste
• Paper
• Plastic
• Glass
• Metal
• E waste
• Waste clothes

56. Segregated Waste collection booth

57. Plastic –paper waste
“ No
MANAGED… investment/infrastructure,
PLASTIC > RECYCLED can be started immediately,
Recycler needed “
PAPER (into new items)
WASTE
Home- Bags for Collecting waste
Apartment- Bins for Storing waste
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58. “ No
E waste -MANAGED… investment/infrastructure,
can be started immediately,
Recycler needed “
ELECTRICAL/ > RECYCLED
ELECTRONIC ITEMS (parts reused)
WASTE
lighting products
Municipal Solid Waste Streams
mercury and lead causes
environmental pollution & serious health
hazards
Recycling recovers mercury and
lead, allowing it to be reused !
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59. Dry waste collection centre
in every ward
Malleswaram Godown:
Areas Serviced : Malleswaram, Seshadripuram, Kumarapark,
Yelahanka,Jakkur)
Located in the Main Market area
Set up by BBMP in Nov 2008 Operations managed by ITC
Godown collection in Nov 2008 - 300 Kgs
Godown collection in March 2012 - 35 Tons
Ramurthy nagar Godown:
(Areas Serviced : St. Johns Road,
Vasanthnagar,
Marathahalli )

60. Creating
Waste Sensitive Communities
Creating Value out of Waste
-Primary Segregation-

61. PLATINUM eco drive
Number of Flats in the Enclave- 700 units
SUMMARY OF WASTE RETRIEVED-SEP 2010
Price
Amount /kg
Category Qty (Kg) (Rs.) (Rs.)
Plastic 603.3 3947.55 6.54
Paper 1215 3442 2.83
Metal 44.65 567.5 12.71
Misc 29.65 118.6 4.00
Glass 218.5 221.5 1.01
2111.1 8297.15 3.93

62. Creating Value out of Waste
- Secondary Segregation-

63. The Great Indian
Recycling story…….

64. Cardboard Sorting………….

65. Bottle Sorting………….

66. Bottle Cap
Sorting………….

67. Value of waste………
Type Rate Type Rate
HardPlastic Rs.17/Kg Beer Bottles Rs.2/Bottle
MilkPackets Rs.15.50/Kg Glass Re.1/Kg
Misc Plastics Rs.4/kg Aluminium Foil Rs.10/Kg
PET bottles Rs.10/Kg Aluminium Rs.30/Kg
Cartons Rs. 4/Kg Fibre Rs.8/Kg
Paper Rs.4/kg OilTin Rs.7/Kg
Newspaper Rs. 6/Kg
Metal Rs.8/Kg

68. What is in it for me???
• There are agencies that are willing to pay
for your waste, if it is segregated and
stored properly.
• These agencies represent the growing
“Waste to Wealth” Industry, that is
recycling our waste for profit.

69. Roadmap towards Zero Waste
Solid Waste Management Round Table
Bengaluru, 2010, shows
it is possible to MANAGE Waste
it is possible to gain VALUE out of Waste,
and,
to create a BETTER ENVIRONMENT for all

70. WASTE STREAM MANAGEMENT
(WSM) CONTRACT
&
WASTE DISPOSAL
CONTRACT
GARBAGE CONTRACT

71. so, what can YOU do?
This can be done by just
adopting simple practises
• Carrying cloth bags for
shopping rather than
getting plastic bags.
• Be environmentally
conscious at all times.

73. No disposables
only reusables
• Don’t use plastic or
styrofoam glasses,
plates etc.
• Use areca plates and
other natural
degradable products
• Or better use
melamine or steel
plates and glasses

74. Paper cups Eco friendly?
Can paper hold water?
Paper cup-what is it
actually?
made of layers of paper
and polyethelene -to be
able to hold liquids.
And it takes 3.5 cups of
water to make the paper
cup.

75. • Water was free before
• But now we have to buy water

76. • Air is free now.
• But soon we will need to buy air.

80. • Ordinary water costs 6 paise a liter.
• Bottled water comes at 12-15 Rs a liter(250% more).
• And use it for only a few minutes.
• We use millions of bottles of water in a day in India.
Each bottle is made of oil.
1/4 lt oil to make one bottle.
Imagine how many cars can run on the oil
greatest source of pollution in water bodies

81. So reduce your use of bottled water,
especially –
• On a daily basis,
• During weddings and occasions,
• Go back to keeping water
• in glass bottles and matkas

82. When we say WeMOW , we mean………..
We manage our Garden waste
We manage our Food waste
We manage our paper / plastic waste
We manage our E- waste
We manage our Bio medical waste
We manage our rejects 82

83. Introducing…….W M
e OW
(W M
e anage Our Waste)
• Objective: positive recognition by accreditation
• Target: communities, corporates & campuses which
have already willingly adopted in-house
waste
management
• Vision: We MOW to be recognized as a responsible
practice to be adopted by every citizen in
the

84. Conclusion
We believe that MANAGING WASTE is the only
way for a sustainable future
We are asking the authorities…
…for PLANNING which will enable waste
stream management
…for PROMOTION through large scale
awareness campaigns
…to PRACTICE and lead by good example
…for ENFORCEMENT by incentivising and
disincentivising
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86. So Let’ s Resolve…
• To not look at the others , but to look at
ourselves.
• To make that change in our own homes
TODAY
• To get one more person we know to make
that change in their house…