Waste Management..

Lot has been written and spoken about this topic but we have never learnt its importance , still want to give a try...


Not everybody knows that in some areas of Pune we do follow method to separate out  Dry waste and Bio waste..(ओला कचरा आणि सुका कचरा ) atleast where i live... municipality workers collect the waste in different containers (upto here everything seems ekdum perfect ) but at the end when they empty out the containers in dumper ,they  "JUST DO IT".......(गयी भैस पानीमे)... so its not making any sense...

So what is being followed here?

Here they try to recycle as much as garbage as they can by segregating it .You can not throw the waste just like that or you will be fined....You have to separate the different kinds of waste. you have different containers for Papers, Plastic waste, Bio waste, Dry waste. For Glass.electric cells , cloths they have different containers.
Every house,Buildings, Apartments have these containers with fixed colour code like:


Blue Container : Paper waste
Yellow Container : Plastic material, Foils , cans
 Brown Container : Biodegradable waste like leftover food

Black Container : This is for everything else that cannot be disposed of any other container.

They have specific days to collect specific garbage means they will collect Plastic garbage one day nothing else ,the other day they will collect only paper waste like that...(no question of getting mixed as i mentioned in very first para) You get a calender like this to know when garbage collectors will come to collect ...

They also have different containers for Glass and Cloths at some common locations which looks like this ...












So what we can do??
I am not expecting this method for common people at least at the start. But can be started from all housing societies , Buildings, Industries  where people knows the importance of recycling. so we wont need to put the banner like:

 

P.M.T. पुण्यातल्या traffic jam चे सगळ्यात महत्वाचे कारण

P.M.T ....Pune Muncipal Transport..no i am not going to write here about how old are they ( on an average 15 yrs old making it as the Pune's most polluting element), not about how CO-OPERATIVE  the bus drivers and conductors are, not about how frequently the buses are ON TIME...and even not about the luxurious conditions about the buses and Bus stops (Do they exist at all??)...here am going to focus on how we can avoid the traffic chaos causing by buses standing in the middle of the road and commuters trying to catch them in midst of  other vehicles.

Look at the picture....
In my opinion its the "BUS STOPS" and not the "BUSes" which are causing this situation.
Have you ever noticed  that whenever we drive in central city  areas we always just keep on looking ways to overtake BUS if its ahead of us.... why?? because all we know if you get struck behind BUS on any a busy road its gonna take hell lot of time unless that road ends or you prefer some other road.. because you just cant simply cross the BUS....(and its very irritating i know.."अडकलो यार" "लागली आता ". "तरी तुला सांगत होतो" "या बसच्या ना @#@#" .)
Let me explain you, Normally at every bus stop, bus stops for 15-20 seconds only but resulting to stop 50 more vehicles behind it... at each stop these number goes on increaing and increasing..and causing  T R A F F I C .
Just take an example of Laxmi Road...on an average 3 or 4 buses are passing by  on it at the same time  ... and you can imagine how serious is this..


So what they do it here....meaning of BUS STOP for them to be precisely is   "Additional" space to stop the bus.
At every Bus stop they have given some additional space just outside the road. so whenever bus  takes stop it will not stand in the middle of the road blocking all other vehicles . See the picture below , it explains all..





I have seen these kind of bus stops almost everywhere...  in some cases its extra lane for buses where its going to stop..(m not at all expecting this in city like pune where you dont have space for walking even)..


So question is can we do it also...???   Can we make this EXTRA space on roads like laxmi road??

i dont have have answers to these but just one thought in mind..अतिक्रमणाच्या नावाखाली धार्मिक वास्तु हलवता येतात ना तुम्हाला मग हे का नाही जमणार ??