On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 2:04 PM, SS <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bangalore is divided up into "wards" or local zones. Several Bangalore
> wards have already successfully implemented a "segregation at home"
> strategy where plastic and paper are collected once a week by recyclers
> and wet garbage is collected every day to be composted in an area
> designated by it by the local government. This has reduced the volumes
> of garbage needing to be carted away and dumped by 80% from those 2 or 3
> wards that have done it. Now for the remaining 150 odd wards...

Apparently, after a recent change in garbage contractors, a Jayanagar
resident was horrified to discover that his carefully segregated
garbage was being mixed in the truck.

-- b

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