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Carbon Footprint of Municipal Solid Waste in Greater Bangalore
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1Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences [CES], Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
2Faculty of Architecture, Unversity of Melbourne, Australia
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in

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This study estimated the household solid waste (HSW) generation of the Bangalore city, capital of Karnataka with population of 7 million with an area of 741 km2.It comprises of 198 wards. It is located at 12º59´ north latitude and 77º57´ east longitude more or less equidistant from eastern and western coast of the South Indian peninsula. Altitude of 920 meters above the sea level where as the winter temperature ranges from 12º C– 25º C, while summer temperature ranges from 18º C- 38º C. Mean annual precipitation is 880 mm. Thus the city enjoys the salubrious climate throughout the year(Fig. 1). (Ramachandra and Uttam, 2010; Sudhira et al., 2007).


Figure1. Study area: Greater Bangalore

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Citation : Gouri Kulkarni, Vishnu Bajpai, Sun Sheng Han and Ramachandra. T.V, 2012. Carbon Footprint of Municipal Solid Waste in Greater Bangalore., Proceedings of the LAKE 2012: National Conference on Conservation and Management of Wetland Ecosystems, 06th - 09th November 2012, School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, pp. 1-8.
* Corresponding Author :
Dr. T.V. Ramachandra
Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, India.
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