Waste
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"Organic is Green, Glass is Yellow, Paper is White,
Metal is Grey, Plastic is Blue, Hazard is Red!"
http://ee.hnu.cn/eeold/ceth/PDF/hospital/study/handout-en/1.3.3%20-%20Segregation.pdf
Please call your respective vendors. These mails have been published multiple times.
Herewith inform to all the residents, The existing & new Car Wash vendors has been deployed in block wise as follows:
SL NO: BLOCKS NAME OF THE VENDOR CONTACT PERSON CONTACT NO;
1 P,Q,R,G & H M/S. MSR Exelant Service Mr. Manjunath +91 9880514260
2 B & C M/S. Rehaboth Car Wash Service Mr. Rajesh M Lazarus +91 9535670468
3 A,D,E & F M/S. SLN Car & Bike Washing Service Mr. Narendra +91 9900192174/9980557290
From: Alpine Team
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 11:29 AM'
Subject: RE: [AlpineEcoGoV] Re: [OwnersAtAlpineECO] Waste segregation at Source mandatory from October 1
Dear Sir,
Herewith submitting survey report of waste management at the time of our visit at M/s Shriram Spandana on 15th October 2012 at 1.00PM by myself & Mr. Manu Kumar.
Visited place information :
Name of the complex M/s Shriram Spandana Apartment
No of Block 33 Nos
No of Flat 504 Nos
Total Area 12.5 Acres
Consulted :-
Mr. Armugan Assist Facility Manager
Mr. Kamalesh Property Manger
Mr. Mohan HK Supervisor
Waste management Operation Report:-
As per our visit we have observed that they had kept 4 Garbage bins in 4 different colors at each block detail as follows:-
· YELLOW BIN -- DRY WASTE only, collected by BBMP once a week (paper, plastic, metal, e waste etc: Caution -milk and curd packets to be rinsed and dried, food waste to be removed from take away packets and then disposed)
· GREEN BIN --- WET WASTE only, collected by BBMP every day (food waste, garden waste etc directly (NO plastic bag) into the green bin below each block Caution - BBMP has strictly forbidden the disposal of organic and vegetable waste in PLASTIC bags)
· RED BIN --- MEDICAL WASTE only, collected by BBMP once a week (diapers, sanitary napkins, dog pooh, syringes etc. BBMP mandates that this has to be neatly wrapped in newspaper – NO PLASTIC bags)
· BLUE BIN ---- GLASS WASTE only (beer bottles, glass panes, any other glass bottles, Caution – please wrap broken glass in a plastic bag for safety of the handlers)
MAIDS – Please individually take responsibility to communicate to your maids that the new system is mandatory. BBMP plans to impose a fine of Rs 500/-day/flat for non-compliance.
NEWSPAPERS: Daily, Weekly or once a lot of old newspaper gets accumulated in your house, please deposit the papers in the Yellow Bin.
USABLE WASTE (e.g. Old/ New Clothes, Woolens , Blankets , Footwear, Dry Ration, Sewing Machine, Umbrellas, School material, Magazines, Books, Bicycles, Spectacles, Toys, Games, Bedding, Blanket etc) – Waste management team organizes for Quarterly collection of these material by HK team.
And also we feel to display the instructions of waste disposal operations notice next to the lifts so that all the residents may have the chance to go thru it and we have taken some photographs which has been enclosed in this mail.
Thanks & Regards
K Jayanth Kumar
Manager - Facilities
The case studies from apts who have been successful champions of waste segregation are here:
http://apartmentadda.com/blog/2012/10/15/waste-management-for-apartments-slides/
I've attended the workshop and here are the brief learnings.
1. Unsegregated waste is the real waste. If segregated, more than 90% of the segregated waste is useful and can generate revenues.
2. 200 apts generating waste for 6 months can generate revenues of 1 lakh Rs. Src: NGV, Tungabhadra
2.1 Most valuable waste: paper cardboard, then comes glass bottles, wet waste, Unrecyclable: aluminium mixed with plastic wrappers like kurkure.
2.2 Hard lesson from most case studies: Only door to door pickup works, otherwise apt residents do not follow guidelines.
2.3 Little Manure helps composting wet waste like vegetable cuttings, leftovers, etc.
2.4 meeresh.blogspot.in
3. HK staff does doorstep collection. green bag for organic red for inorganic. Some segregation needs to be done at backend by HK staff.
4. sanitary pads and napkins not recyclable
5. paper sold to raddiwala, plastic to kay kay plastics, used for tarring roads, to benchmark measure waste before and after waste recycling.
6. Challenges: Competition between HK staff and housemaids for valuable waste. ewaste bin needed seperately.
7. Doorstep collection specifics: Wet waste collection everyday, newspaper collection once/twice a week. Unsegregated waste not collected
8. medicine waste gets incinerated by nearby hospital. need to tie up.
9. sites.google.com/site/managingwaste
10. Garbage drops bad model. door pickup the best.
11. BBMP Addl Commisioner for solid waste: salmafahim[at]gmail[dot]com 9483500100 coming up with plans to enforce segregation
12. wet watse needs composters. block champions, even floor champions, green council, reward for max collection by HK staff.
13. waste needs to be tracked to block. regular pickup schedule most important to success. spread aware ness through childrens posters.
14. waste should be problem of mc as much as that of volunteers and residents.
Related Videos
- Please have a look at the short film.
Koramangala 3rd Block Wealth Off Waste (WoW) Project - a Film that tells the story, and can be used for spreading awareness and signing up folks into segregation. It could hopefully help and inspire other communities to also take up such initiatives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqJSZzvb9VE&feature=youtu.be
Related links
- http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/article3889914.ece
- Bangaloremirror: Garbage is my business
- Tips for Proper Waste Management in Apartments (CommonFloor)
- Waste Management in Apartments (CF)
From here and there
- Vani Murthy's FB page on dealing with wet waste
- I found out about K K Plastic Waste Management (http://www.kkplasticroads.com) – a firm that accepts all sorts of plastic waste, and converts them into a polymer blend that BBMP buys for use in road construction.
I went there last weekend and gave them all the plastic waste I had collected over the last three months. The guys over there are enthusiastic about recycling plastic and thanked me for making the trip. They offered to come to my apartment periodically and pick up the waste themselves, provided there were enough residents interested. They already do this for some apartments in South Bangalore and also some companies, including Wipro. They pay Rs. 6/- per kg.
If you live around Kanakapura Road, I would urge you to consider segregating your plastic waste and giving it to them. They sounded a bit worried about getting sustained support from BBMP. As citizens, we can at least encourage these initiatives.
What are other apartments doing ?
- Many established apartments societies are already segregating their waste. It is part of modern living. Plan segregation in your household. Read about it :
- http://athreya.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/journey-of-our-trash-in-bangalore-i/
- http://athreya.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/journey-of-our-trash-in-bangalore-ii/
** https://sites.google.com/site/managingwaste/
** http://www.dailydump.org/
Mail thread
From: Aparna
Sent: Tuesday, 25 September 2012 2:34 AM
Subject: Waste segregation at Source mandatory from October 1
Hi ,
Here is my plan.
There are 6 categories of waste. We need to have separate containers for these per block or two blocks. Size of these containers will need to be thought about based on proportion of that waste category and rate of disposal. Some money needs to be invested here.
Weekly disposal (residents dispose themselves - Recycling organization truck collects from the bins in the basement weekly. they will do it for free)
1. Paper
2. Plastic
3. Metal, glass etc
4. Electronic Waste
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Daily Disposal
5. Bio-Medical Waste (Normal/Toxic) (Residents dispose in newspaper bags only that they can make themselves. Housekeeping collects these bags in a separate trolley on a daily basis. Bio-Medical waste disposal company collects the waste daily from Alpine. We need to pay them)
6. Wet Waste (Kitchen - eatable, vegetables, fruits) (Residents dispose in container with cap/lid. Housekeeping daily collect only the content of the container in a bucket which they later clean with water to avoid smell. BBMP collects waste without plastic covers)
Let me know if we can meet and take this forward.
See Also
News and Media
If you have plastic bottles to selll
There is this group of girls who recycle plastic bottles into beautiful jewellery and sell it at http://shopo.in/shop/silvernuttree. If you have enough plastic bottles to sell, consider selling it to them.
Offtopic
- Not entirely related but useful. Sometimes we buy things that we don't need lifelong. Toys for example. There is this website that allows you to rent toys for as long as you need them: http://rentoys.in/home/
- The equivalent of Nukkad mandi happened in bangalore a while back. Read all about it at : https://www.facebook.com/events/331466353595807/
Say, you got a nice blog post. Really Cool. aeedbdadegedakaa
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What made you feel the need for a society management app?
As urbanization grow people start living in building, Residential complex, or residential Housing society, for functioning smoothly Members of building, complex or housing society form a Management for under rule of Co-operative housing society or Apartment of association.
To function an operation of society smoothly management committee charge service charge or maintenance charge to their society member depend on Flat/ Bungalow area, BHK. And utilise all this fund to keep maintain the society area premise. If look at society with minimum maintenance charge of Rs. 1000/ Month for society of 70 flat society then turn over goes minimum up to 8-10 lacs.
Society has use its fund very carefully and transparent because they have to go through annual Audit. Some of society have very rich their annual transaction is more than crore. But sometime we see in management committee have very less knowledge of accounting and Society management. So they keep an Accountant or Employee for daily working of society.
In this case society not become transparent because any committee member don’t have any knowledge how much daily cash the accountant has collected , how much cash is expense , Because committee keep trust on the employee. I have seen many society where a manager use 5 thousands– 60 thousand cash for his personal use and society don’t have knowledge about it. Because they did it record manually or software which management committee are not able to operate. So this create mess in operating the society and may possibility of fraud.
Sometime employee or manager is very honest but he don’t able keep proper record of cash , payment received because society is not able to afford such employee with such skill, so during audit or accounting they don’t have proper record of transaction.
While facing such issue society committee also face internal turbulence as some society’s treasurer or secretary resign from society, because of personal issue or internal committee conflict in such case it’s very hard to understand what kind of mess he left in accounting record. In such cases society can’t stop its daily operating for smooth functioning of society , to avoid hard-hit problem society are facing society’s should use a software.
There are so many software available in market but I would like to suggest.
“EezyLife System”
It’s very Responsive on speed, Simple to use, Affordability is best in competition. Also very good training and support by relationship manager.
Get in touch with us and we will help you setup your own Society Management Software.
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