Focus your passions. Garbage and sewage are now Bangalore citizens’ prime concerns, as a CIVIC study showed. If Solid Waste Management (SWM) is your priority area too, it will take a good top person’s sustained and single-minded attention to keep this as No 1 on everyone’s agenda, 24 hours a day for 365 days, until benchmark cleanliness is achieved.
Timetable and Targets for City Cleanup
India now has a new national policy for Solid Waste Management (SWM), and matching laws to go with it: Municipal Solid Waste (Mgt & Handling) Rules 1999.
Working Together to Keep Our Cities Clean
If each and every property owner and shop owner or ground-floor occupier keeps their boundaries clean, including footpaths, drains and road shoulders, upto the center of their road for the width of their frontage, the whole street will be transformed. Also the lanes and valleys behind houses.
Solid Waste Management Ideas
Our Municipal Solid Waste (Managemt & Handling) Rules are a blueprint for sustainable living:
Waste Management Practices and Policy in India
Women, whether they work within the home or outside, are expected in most societies to do the cooking, which generates the biodegradable wastes that decay most readily and cause the greatest problems if uncollected.
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