Bengaluru targets 1,616 garbage blackspots in month-long clean-up drive

Bengaluru’s Freedom from Waste campaign has identified 1,616 garbage blackspots holding an estimated 22,732 tonnes of waste. The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) aims to clear them during a month-long drive that began on August 1.

The GBA is working with the city’s five corporations, Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML), Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka) Limited and BMRCL. The authority asked property owners to clear waste from vacant plots by August 15, and said civic agencies could clean sites that remain uncleared and recover the cost through property tax.

Daily collection will be central to preventing new dumping at cleared sites. BSWML estimates that one auto-tipper serves around 750 households, a workload that can make collection irregular.

The campaign has identified eight land parcels spanning nearly 57 acres on Bengaluru’s outskirts for the waste collected during the drive. Kannur and Chikkajala have construction-and-demolition waste processing plants; the GBA has not detailed processing plans for the remaining sites.