Mangalore Municipal Corporation

1. It is important to meet people to educate them on the need to segregate garbage into two bins, one for organic or natural substances and the other for inorganic or man made materials . It would be good if they are collected separately.
2. Door to door collection is not 100% and we find that there still are a lot of indifferent or ignorant persons who just dump garbage at places they find convenient and stray dogs drag these packets of garbage and scatter them all over the place defeating the very purpose of door to door collection.
3. In spite of the national effort to achieve a Swatch Bharath, there still are a lot of people who would like to stay out of it and continue to dirty the city. Such people need to be taken to task and for that littering and dumping garbage in unauthorised places must be declared a cognizable offence and punishable with a mild fine the first time, a deterrent fine and/or imprisonment for a while, the second time onwards.
4. Small groups of three or four rag pickers must be organised into teams which hires a mini van and goes around town picking discarded plastics, glass objects, metal objects, rubber objects, etc. which are recyclable and it can be sorted out and sold to scrap dealers making it a viable exercise. It will go on as an activity that is self sustaining and without budgetary support. The rationale is to increase the efficiency of rag picking. Presently a rag picker fills up a sack with scrap and cannot collect more than 20 to 25 kg because he has to carry it all the way to the dealer. With a van following the group, each man can collect in excess of 150 kg and can cover far greater area.

The collection by Anthony Waste was being done very systematically. But for the last few days garbage hasn't been collected from my are because the road is being concreted. An alternated arrangement should be made.

Step 1 is ok, still corporation - public interaction & co-operation must improve.

The appointment of private garbage collection contractor is a welcome step taken by the corporation. There are fine tuning required.

Has improved after appointment of a private contractor. Sadly, their operations are far from perfect.