Perpetually Perplexed

In my area- Rajarajeshwarinagar, I rarely see the garbage truck. They are certainly not coming everyday. Earlier I used to see their truck once in blue moon. Now I think even that has stopped. So I am using my own methodology. All vegetable and fruit skin, used tea powder etc., I store in an old bucket which I keep covered with tile, to that it won't stink. Once the bucket is filled, I leave it for almost 2 months. In the meanwhile I use a second bucket for storing my kitchen waste. After 2 months, the garbage has changed to nice compost which I use for my kitchen garden. Most of the days, left over cooked rice is eaten by me. Rather than heating it in cooker, microwaving for 3 minutes after sprinkling some water will be better.  And if due to any reason, the quantity of left over rice is too much, I make puliogare with that rice and my husband does not mind. Ideally that should leave us only with dry waste. This I should have given for recycling, but I do not know any one n...

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 ...