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We all need to save our earth

Bangalore used to be a

Garden City

Now it has become a

Garbage City

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EXISTING LANDFILL SITES IN AND AROUND BANGALORE

40 kms from the centre of the city

30 ft

EXISTING LANDFILL SITES IN AND AROUND BANGALORE

Why should the waste go all this distance and then

be RETREIVED and brought back to Bangalore

…….

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.

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

• 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.

Do you know how much GARBAGE

YOUR house/office

GENERATES?

OR IS IT OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND?

what happens to your garbage?

picked up by your pourakarmika in the push cart.

Throw it out of your home

Garbage dumped on the road corners Eaten by animals esp. the cows and dogs

Mixed garbage filled in the trucks

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.

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Breeding GroundBreeding Ground

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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.

 More than 70% of our household garbage is biodegradable. It can be recycled into precious nutrient material called ‘ compost’ that can be used for pants

 

MANAGED

SEGREGATED AGGREGATED

AT SOURCE LANDFILL

DISPOSALVS.

Towards Zero Waste

… for a Sustainable Future

Composting/

Bio MethanationIncineration/

Land filling

Recycling

90%recycled

10 %

land filled

10% recycled

90%

land filled

NIMBY Not In My Backyard

YIMBY

Yes In My Backyard

• 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.

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Waste composition

Managing Waste is a four part

process

starting with

•Segregation at source• Recycling,• Composting , and• Managed Disposal of remaining

waste.

We Segregate all day

• Cooking. • Clothes.• Books to school• Everything in the

house• Documentation in

the office

• Why not garbage?

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

MIXED GARBAGE POLLUTES

paper gets soggyplastic gets dirty

wet waste gets contaminated

SEGREGATED GARBAGE is CLEAN

CAN BE RECYCLEDand REUSED

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Why must you and I do it?

• Cannot contaminate the earth any more.

• If we continue like this then we will have

Why take the expensive option?

Types of Waste

•Wet waste

•Dry waste

•E waste

•Garden waste

•Rejects

MANAGED…

Think before you throw.

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.

Garbage within12 hrs

RawOdorless

Storage time Status of garbage

12 hours Odorless fresh raw material

24 hours Smelly decomposed material

72 hours and more Worm (maggots) infested waste

Unwanted materials turn into waste in the following manner

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

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.

Clean dry waste is collected and stored in the homes to be collected once a

week.

No stink,

No cockroaches/mosquitoes/rats/flies

Why should plastic be

converted into oil? Plastic

must be converted into other plastic

products.

Burning leaves is routineEach leaf is precious-

do not burn it

Burning leaves produces air

pollutionLoss of precious

resource

Shredding the leaves at home

• 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

MANAGED…

DRY LEAF > COMPOSTEDGARDEN LITTER ( into manure)

POOJA

“ Investment required Infrastructure required onsite”

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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

Leaf composting -simple

Do not burn the leaves

Compost them.

Home Compost used to make a terrace garden at home

Put separate bins in all areas

Creates awareness among all people

Wet waste

• Converted into manure-by composting at home –daily dump

• Vermi composting• Aerobic composting• EM solutions• Organic waste composter • Bio gas conversion

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Composting organic waste at home

SmallApts

Medium Apts

LargeApts

MANAGED…

VEG/FOOD > COMPOSTED WASTE ( into manure)

“ Investment required Infrastructure required in-house ”

Organic Waste Converter (OWC)

Aerobic Digester

Rotating / Tumbler composter

BEFORE

LEAF

COMPOSTING

Waste Management – Campus

Home Guards , Civil Defence,Fire and Allied Services,HQ

Waste Retrieved June 2010

Kgs

Paper 93

Plastic 67

160

Leaf waste generated 1.5 tonnes

Composted on site 1.5 tonnes

AFTER

DRY

WASTE

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)

Home biogas plantThe 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

DRY WASTE COLLECTION CENTRE

Your waste is someone else's Your waste is someone else's raw materialraw material

Dry waste• Paper • Plastic • Glass • Metal• E waste• Waste clothes

Segregated Waste collection booth

PLASTIC > RECYCLED

PAPER (into new items) WASTE

Plastic –paper waste MANAGED… “ No investment/infrastructure,

can be started immediately, Recycler needed “

Home- Bags for Collecting wasteApartment- Bins for Storing waste

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E waste -MANAGED…

ELECTRICAL/ > RECYCLEDELECTRONIC ITEMS (parts reused)

WASTE

“ No investment/infrastructure,can be started immediately,

Recycler needed “

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lighting products Municipal Solid Waste Streams

mercury and lead causesenvironmental pollution & serious health

hazards

Recycling recovers mercury and lead, allowing it to be reused !

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 )

Dry waste collection centre

in every ward

Creating Value out of Waste

-Primary Segregation-

Creating Waste Sensitive Communities

PLATINUM eco drive

Number of Flats in the Enclave- 700 units

SUMMARY OF WASTE RETRIEVED-SEP 2010

 

Qty (Kg)

AmountPrice /kg

Category (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.

18297.1

5 3.93

Creating Value out of Waste

- Secondary Segregation-

The Great Indian Recycling

story…….

Cardboard Sorting………….

Bottle Sorting………….

Bottle Cap

Sorting………….

Type Rate HardPlastic      

Rs.17/Kg

MilkPackets                            

Rs.15.50/Kg

Misc Plastics Rs.4/kg PET bottles Rs.10/Kg

Cartons   Rs. 4/Kg

Paper       

Rs.4/kg

Newspaper 

Rs. 6/Kg

Type Rate Beer Bottles

Rs.2/Bottle

Glass Re.1/Kg Aluminium

Foil Rs.10/Kg

Aluminium

Rs.30/Kg

Fibre  Rs.8/Kg

OilTin         

Rs.7/Kg

Metal Rs.8/Kg

Value of waste………

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.

Roadmap towards Zero Waste

Solid Waste Management Round TableBengaluru, 2010, shows

it is possible to gain VALUE out of Waste, it is possible to gain VALUE out of Waste,

it is possible to MANAGE Wasteit is possible to MANAGE Waste

and, to create a BETTER ENVIRONMENT for alland, to create a BETTER ENVIRONMENT for all

GARBAGE CONTRACT

WASTE DISPOSAL CONTRACT

WASTE STREAM MANAGEMENT (WSM) CONTRACT

&

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.

No disposablesonly 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

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.

• Water was free before

• But now we have to buy water

• Air is free now.

• But soon we will need to buy air.

• 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

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

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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

Introducing…….We MOW(We Manage 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 city for a sustainable future

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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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…