Tag: plastic waste

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…

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Recycling plastics getting more mature in India?

A push for extended producer responsibility policies for plastic waste in India will be a boon for plastics recycling, according to companies at Plastindia 2023. “India will be getting more mature towards plastic recycling, with government policies formalized with the new EPR guidelines, said Nitin Gupta, CEO of Steer Engineering in Bengaluru. In early 2022, India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, unveiled guidelines for plastic packaging EPR that stipulates mandatory targets for recycling of plastic packaging waste, reuse of rigid plastic containers and use of recycled content. It…

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Plastic recycling machines installed by JMC-H in the Walled city

Jaipur: To manage plastic waste better, Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC)-Heritage has now installed two plastic bottle recycling machines in the Walled City. Officials said, these machines crush the plastic and recycle them into pencil holders, examination boards, trays, coasters, decorative planters among other items. One machine has been installed at the entrance of the civic body’s office opposite Hawa Mahal and another near Indira Rasoi at Jal Mahal. Officials said that with increasing tourists, plastic bottle waste is a major problem which can be recycled using these machines.  Munesh Gurjar,…

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Fire at Brahmapuram waste treatment plant in Kochi raises a stink, Why ?

Seven days on, toxic fumes from the blaze continue to choke residents of Kochi and neighbouring Alappuzha even as corruption in the plant’s management is alleged Kochi is under watch as toxic emissions from the March 2 fire at the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant have reached as far as the neighbouring district of Alappuzha. The administration’s inability to contain the blaze at the plant, which is spread over 110 acres in the heart of the city, has put the spotlight on unscientific solid waste management. Kerala is highly literate but…

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