I was happy to read an article about a Bangalore based company finding a method of converting solid waste into electricity. If all the solid waste including the plastic is converted into electricity and plastic waste is converted into tar which can be used for roads, it is really a very wonderful thing.
But how much of garbage is really collected from our houses? I am talking about the situation in Bangalore, but I am sure it is not much different in other cities. In most of the areas, the garbage trucks come at random hours and we can not keep waiting the whole day for them. And we can not keep the garbage bin or cover outside our gates for them to collect because of stray dogs would litter the whole place. And for working ladies who leave the house early in the morning it is impossible. And in some other new areas like ours, the garbage trucks do not arrive every day. They come once in 4-5 days, when they wish. We cannot keep stinking garbage for such a long time. So what do we all do (most of us at least) We tell our bayis or kelasada ammas to take plastic garbage bag and throw them in an empty site. So keep our houses clean and litter somebody else's site.
Now why can't there be large garbage bins for biodegradable waste at the end of the roads for us to put our garbage? Which should and must be emptied everyday by sanitary workers. And to add to it, another bin can be kept to put plastic waste, paper wastes. Don't tell me that there are no such bins. In fact near my house some 10 bins are just left on the road - not knowing what to do with them. And I think that is how garbage disposal works in other countries.
But how much of garbage is really collected from our houses? I am talking about the situation in Bangalore, but I am sure it is not much different in other cities. In most of the areas, the garbage trucks come at random hours and we can not keep waiting the whole day for them. And we can not keep the garbage bin or cover outside our gates for them to collect because of stray dogs would litter the whole place. And for working ladies who leave the house early in the morning it is impossible. And in some other new areas like ours, the garbage trucks do not arrive every day. They come once in 4-5 days, when they wish. We cannot keep stinking garbage for such a long time. So what do we all do (most of us at least) We tell our bayis or kelasada ammas to take plastic garbage bag and throw them in an empty site. So keep our houses clean and litter somebody else's site.
Now why can't there be large garbage bins for biodegradable waste at the end of the roads for us to put our garbage? Which should and must be emptied everyday by sanitary workers. And to add to it, another bin can be kept to put plastic waste, paper wastes. Don't tell me that there are no such bins. In fact near my house some 10 bins are just left on the road - not knowing what to do with them. And I think that is how garbage disposal works in other countries.
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