Bengaluru, often hailed as the Garden City of India, is making remarkable strides in the field of waste management. Covering an area of 714 square kilometres and home to a…
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is planing to use abandoned quarries in the outskirts of the city for setting up C&D (construction and demolition) waste recycling units. The new units…
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to fine the citizens for not sorting the garbage as per the segregation guidelines issued by the corporation. The penalty will be increased…
Battling for years together to solve the problem of Solid Waste Management (SWM), the Karnataka Government has appointed Darpan Jain as the first SMW Special Commissioner with the task of…
A modernized “co-combustion” technology generating power from urban garbage having almost zero dioxin and furan levels has been launched in Bangalore. The Bangalore Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) and multinational waste to…
CIJ News, December 11, 2013 The Bruhat Bangalore MahanagaraPalike (BBMP) covering nearly one crore people, has collected Rs10.4 lakh in two months as penalty for littering the streets by implementing…
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is mulling over making it mandatory for all residential complexes to separate bio medical waste from solid waste. The mandatory segregation at source rules…
The requirement of having a dust bin every 50feet, especially in commercial areas, the Brihut Bangaluru Mahanagar Palike is looking for the right model of waste receptacles. Speaking to Clean…
In a major move to control the pollen ridden environment of Bangalore, the Corporation has banned planting of flowering plants in the gardens. This move comes in the wake of…
A private builder in Bangalore has been fined to the tune of Rs.25,000 for keeping the premises unclean leading to mosquito breeding. The BBMP team constituted to survey larvae breeding…