Garbage Burning In Bengaluru: How Our Campaign Altered This Toxic Practice
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Garbage Burning In Bengaluru: How Our Campaign Altered This Toxic Practice
In May 2016, we started a petition against garbage burning in Bangalore.
Our Campaigner, Divya for weeks sat outside BBMP solid waste commissioner's office to bring the issue of garbage burning to his notice.
Continued follow ups to BBMP to take issue of garbage burning more seriously.
In the meanwhile, we requested citizens to send us photos of garbage burning from their locality.
And created an online map where we plotted all the crowd-sourced photos of garbage burning.
The map showcased the extent and the intensity of the issue in Bangalore that caught the attention of the BBMP and the media.
We also reached out to media folks to bring attention to the issue of Garbage burning in Bangalore.
Sarfraz Khan applauded our efforts and worked with us to solve the issue of Garbage burning
BBMP, Acknowledged our work and promised to levy fines on the defaulters
BBMP, Acknowledged our work and promised to levy fines on the defaulters
We also engaged Hari Adivarekar, a Bangalore based photographer to create a series of photos of garbage burning across the city.
And created hard-hitting visuals
And created hard-hitting visuals
Engaging with people of different age groups
Raised Awareness
Raised Awareness
Raised Awareness
Raised Awareness
We collaborated with media to raise awareness
We created an interactive map of Bengaluru with names and contact details of Ward Councillors and Zonal Commissioners. This map was then shared with our members and volunteers so they could get in touch with them with garbage burning issues in their community.
We also worked with Technical advisor of BBMP to advise on reporting of garbage burning.
The BBMP appointed ward marshals who would canvas the area and had the authority to fine individuals found burning garbage in the open.
We continued working on the issue of garbage burning and collaborated with Friday for Future to raise awareness about the issue.
