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
