India wants to double consumption of cheap material in 5 yrs, what about its plastic waste?


If Waste Ventures’ name does not spell out clearly enough what it does, a visit to its office surely does the job. Located behind a weighbridge on the outskirts of Hyderabad, the startup’s headquarters are at the entrance to a partially roofless, 13,000 sq ft warehouse. Home temporarily to a tiny fraction of the city’s plastic and paper refuse, most of the godown can be manoeuvred only by crushing soft drink bottles and wafer packs underfoot.

Two compactors are making 100 kg bales out of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles, which are then piled on top of each other; the best view of the godown is afforded from atop these, from where you see the staff, mostly women, sorting the waste. Once the waste is sorted and compacted, it is sent to recyclers. Waste Ventures aggregates 150 tonnes every month, which is just 0.1% of Hyderabad’s waste. Of that, 90 tonnes are plastic. The company also offers Toter, an on-demand recyclable waste collection service....................Read more

 

Source: The Economic Times


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