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Shobha Dahlia – Waste Segregation<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOut of sight, out of mind\u201d<\/p>\n Not for the residents of Shobha Dahlia. The residents of this Bengaluru apartment complex took the conscious decision to be accountable for their wastes.<\/p>\n Bengaluru alone generates over 5000 tonnes of garbage per day. The majority of this trash ends up in landfills causing pollution and increasing emission of greenhouse gases. The first productive step to manage wastes is segregation at source. A seemingly simple step, waste segregation, can go a long way to help India deal with her trash problem.<\/p>\n Who and why?<\/b><\/p>\n The residents of Shobha Dahlia have shown exemplary wisdom in taking the first step of waste management as a community – waste segregation. The inspiration came from daily observation and simple awareness. \u201cMandur was filled with tons of mixed waste from our urban world. Enormous amount of garbage piles with plastic bags full of unsegregated waste made us realise that waste if segregated properly we can avoid harming the environment and be more sustainable. At that time support from Kasa Muktha Bangalore helped us get started.\u201d, says Gauri Sengupta, member of the Management Committee.<\/p>\n How?<\/b><\/p>\n Having started the community initiative on 1st July, 2014, it was not an entirely smooth road to success. Some of the challenges the volunteers of Shobha Dahlia faced were:<\/p>\n However, constant communication and awareness about the benefits of waste segregation ensured the community has turned their aspirations of being a green society into reality.<\/p>\n All waste generated per flat is divided into 4 categories:<\/p>\n There are 6 blocks in Dahlia. There are 3 teams of 2 members each. The teams do 3 blocks at a time. The Housekeeping is well trained and wears gloves and masks at all times while handling the waste. The wet waste is processed and composted in house, while the dry waste and e-waste go to selected vendors for recycling.<\/p>\n Impact Of The Initiative<\/b><\/p>\n Patience always bears the sweetest fruits. Shobha Dahlia is a living breathing example of the virtue of patience. Their efforts have borne fruit:<\/p>\n Shobha Dahlia has stood up to its name – the residents have indeed gracefully beautified not only their community, but also, their environment at large. They are true leaders in sustainable community living and let their initiatives Rise High and higher to continue inspiring the urban population to be torch bearers to fight the environment crisis.<\/p>\n Shobha Dahlia – Rise High Awards 2019 Nominee<\/strong><\/p>\n Category : Waste Management<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Register NOW here<\/a>! See You On November 9, 2019 at Royal Orchid – Regenta, Bengaluru<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shobha Dahlia – Waste Segregation \u201cOut of sight, out of mind\u201d Not for the residents of Shobha Dahlia. The residents of this Bengaluru apartment complex took the conscious decision to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2019],"tags":[310,1183,481],"class_list":["post-9852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rise-high","category-adda-india-housing-society-apartment-management","tag-apartment-waste-management","tag-waste-disposal","tag-waste-segregation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10260,"href":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions\/10260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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