Bangalore Platform on Solid Waste Management
In another session of the Bangalore Platform: on Waste Management on 4th December 2010 Wilma Rodrigues, Executive Director of Saahas, took us through these various issues involving waste - waste segregation at source, and retrieval of recyclable material at the individual, household and municipal level, and the larger issues of sustainable cities, issues of inclusion of the informal sector, and impacts on livelihoods of marginalised urban communities.
The burgeoning volumes of waste in the city, limited options of disposal and the fact that waste management strategies alone are unable to solve the problem, leaves us with fewer options ie., ZERO WASTE! Reduce, reuse, recycle – the 3Rs – the tenets of waste management. The major emphasis in on REDUCE – looking to minimise and eliminate waste. The waste audit conducted at Satyam identified disposable products as the largest contributors of waste.
Saahas has been engaged with these issues in Bangalore for nearly 2 decades.
There were 12 participants including a few people from the neighbourhood.
We got in touch with many organizations working in Slums and lower class neighbourhoods, many of whom are working with the informal waste-collection and recycling sectors, and visited some of them - potential sites for the study. This will strengthen the outreach of our vulnerability study.
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