A welcome initiative
It was heartening to read that Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Ltd ( BSWML ) is taking a citizen friendly initiative, aimed at disposal of unwanted furniture, mattresses , old clothes , and such other items which are not picked up by the daily waste collector. Most of the time citizens are in a fix as to where and how to dispose of these things. So they get thrown here and there. A walk along many of the roads except perhaps those in CBD , greets us often with abandoned mattresses , pillows , broken, torn sofas , old sanitary fittings like washbasins , cisterns , flush tanks etc strewn on footpaths, roadsides and even in corners of some parks. Citizens with a better degree of civic sense are also in a quandary. How and where to dispose them? So they pile them up for some time in their houses and then call some informal waste collector and hand them over. Perhaps some of this material may also be finding its way on to pavements. In this backgro...