Bengaluru: The BBMP will soon walk the talk and convert its head office at Hudson Circle into a zero-waste campus. All the wet waste generated on the campus will be converted into compost within the campus and dry waste will be carried away by recyclers.
Mayor Gangambike said that the BBMP wants to set an example by managing waste within the campus and the motto is “Our waste, our responsibility”.
The BBMP head office complex has the BBMP Council building, four other structures, a park and a canteen, generating 50-60 tonnes of waste every day. The wet waste will be collected and put into 70 kg bins which will convert the waste into compost. The head office, which also has a temple, has been given a composter to convert wet waste like flowers and others into compost next to the temple. All the dry waste will be collected by rag-pickers once a week, Ms Gangambike said.
The 134 divisional offices on the campus have been given green bins for wet waste and purple bins for dry waste. To collect sanitary waste, all the toilets have been fitted with red bins, she said.
“We want to follow this model for a period of time and all other government offices should emulate it, so that waste is managed within their campuses,” she said.
BBMP Commissioner Manjunath Prasad said that suitable awareness has been created to segregate waste and to throw it in respective bins. The heads of all offices will be held responsible if segregation is not done properly, he warned.
