Bangalore's & particularly Jayamahal's Garbage Woes.

So ashamed to see this....      someone has dumped bags of debris near the bin ! 

 One single day's garbage from Jayamahal, is like this.  Imagine Mandur !!

 Continuous vigilance, from 6 AM to 7 PM. 
For 3 days, we stood there in the hot sun to prevent the BBMP sweepers and residents from dumping garbage on the road at the collection point and achieved 100 %  ZERO garbage on the ground. 

Now it's back to this - Cannot rid the roads of garbage, unless EVERY ONE does their bit !

Is this going to be a permanent scene of Jayamahal ?  Are we just going to accept and live with this ?

Team CIJMA is continuously trying to get the BBMP & the garbage contractor to collect only segregated waste and has had many Door to Door campaigns to educate residents regarding segregation & disposal of waste.  
A few house holds do segregate but the majority don't because they see the garbage being mixed up by the BBMP  Pourakarmikas who come to collect it !  
The Mandur Land Fill problem will never get solved as the BBMP still sees garbage as waste that should be "DUMPED" and not as "COMPOSTED & RECYCLED" 
Have we turned so selfish that we don't care about dumping OUR TOXIC GARBAGE on the villagers, when we don't even tolerate a neighbour's tree shedding its leaves into our compound !

Here's an article from today's Times of India which throws some light on the problem.......

Jul 12 2014 : The Times of India (Bangalore)
MY OPINION - What you see is not what you get
Ashwin Mahesh


A lot of people complain that BBMP mixes waste they have carefully segregated at home right in front of their eyes. Yes, but follow that truck and see what happens. At some point further downstream, its contents will be emptied and re-segregated. That should set us thinking -why would anyone do that?
The answer is simple. BBMP contractors want us to think that segregation is pointless. Those who segregate are recycling dry waste themselves for money . They are also saving costs on gardening in their communities by composting the wet waste. Both of these represent real streams of money that were earlier available to the contractor. He took what he wanted and dumped the rest without reducing the billable quantity -so it really was a bonanza. Naturally, he wants to hang on to that gravy train.If we allow ourselves to believe that segregation is pointless, the contractors will win. If we persist and wait for the fight in the court and BBMP to be settled, and a lot of people are fighting hard to hold this line -then the city will win.
We need to keep faith in responsible solid waste management (SWM). It is the right thing to do, which is why the 'system' works so hard to prevent it from happening.

Once we realize that, we must become even more determined to overcome it.

The writer is an urban expert

• We request every single resident of Jayamahal to SEGREGATE  WASTE.
• DO NOT DUMP near the bins.
• Please hand over DRY WASTE (plastics, papers, cloth, tins, cans, etc) ONLY ON SATURDAYS.   
• WET WASTE (kitchen waste & small amounts of garden waste) will be collected EVERY DAY.