Recycling Heroes Award bagged by an NGO in Mumbai

MUMBAI: NGO Project Mumbai and its initiative The Mumbai Plastic Recylothon has received the Recycling Heroes Award 2023. From London-based Global Recycling Foundation, the award carries citation and a cash prize of $1,000.

Chosen from among 400 entries from 60 countries, Project Mumbai is the only Indian organisation in this category to have won this award, which was announced on March 18, World Recycling Day.

The Mumbai Plastic Recyclothon inspires citizens to donate plastic waste month after month, which is recycled into amenities such as benches, garbage bins, pots and pencil boxes. The benches have been placed at civic gardens, schools and housing societies, and the pencil boxes have been gifted to children volunteers and civic schoolchildren. Started in 2018, the Mumbai Plastic Recyclothon has been featured in the Limca Book of Records (2020) as one of India’s largest citizen-led plastic recycling initiatives.