<aside> 💕 Project Anant Pranay (अनंत प्रणय): Did you know that many English words, including 'jungle' are borrowed from Hindi? In Hindi, Anant Pranay (अनंत प्रणय) means ‘endless love’. This Impact Project is our effort to stop nature-bound plastic waste from ending up in hazardous and overflowing landfills.
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<aside> 📍 Location: Aurangabad, India
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<aside> ☘️ # of Female Waste Workers: 50+
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Rapidly growing cities such as Aurangabad face an acute lack of robust waste management value chains. This causes waste to persist in the local environment.
More than 50% of the plastic waste generated in urban cities of India is multi-layered plastic (MLP) that does not get collected because the material has no commercial value and lacks collection infrastructure. MLPs are a soft, flexible type of packaging such as candy wrappers and chips packets. The most at risk are those that have multiple layers of plastic along with a metal coating inside since it is almost impossible to separate the materials out in order to recycle them.
Often, in urban centers, harder types of plastic like PET that are easier to recycle, have a recovery rate of over 60-70% because of their inherent economic value. However, low-value materials like MLP have a recovery rate of less than 5% and are most likely to leak into the natural environment and pollute our waterways.
Project Anant Pranay (अनंत प्रणय) is a collaboration between rePurpose Global and the local waste management organization, EcoSattva, who has significant expertise in building new plastic waste recovery and recycling value chains across central and northern India.
Through Project Anant Pranay (अनंत प्रणय), we are catalyzing the collection and ethical processing of low-value, soft plastic packaging waste (Multi-laminate plastic) that would have otherwise been dumped in overflowing and hazardous landfills. MLP is used to make everything from chip packaging to candy wrappers.
Following the collection of MLP, waste workers segregate, clean, and transport the plastic to cement kilns for co-processing. As this type of plastic cannot be recycled, the best environmental option as prescribed by the United Nations Basel Convention is co-processing. Energy is recovered from the plastic and the remaining waste is effectively disposed of without harmful emissions. We are also able to extract some of the minerals in the plastic waste and use them in the creation of cement. Not only does this initiative dispose of unrecyclable plastic waste without sending it to landfills, but also reduces the usage of coal in the cement manufacturing process, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Every piece of plastic that rePurpose Global gives you credit for is a piece of plastic that would otherwise not have been removed from our ecosystems.
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