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By Express News ServiceBENGALURU: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has set an example for other civic bodies by making its head office a ‘zero-waste campus’. The aim is to ensure 100% composting of wet waste generated, and storage and transfer of dry waste to collection centres or re-cyclers. It was revealed that the BBMP office and nearby buildings generate about 50 tonnes of raw waste a day, and in order to reduce this amount, composters of 70 kg capacity have been installed to waste into manure. This apart, they have installed dustbins at all 134 divisional offices on the premises - green cans for disposal of garbage and blue cans for dry garbage collection. Solid waste management personnel have also been trained on how to collect and dispose wet and dry waste..