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Waste to Resource: Innovations on the ground
Romil BajajEkonnect Knowledge Foundation1st August 2015
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Introduction
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Need for ‘Waste to Resource’
Rising Population
Rising Consumption
Higher Spending Ability
Increase in Waste Generation
Less Space Availability
Reduce/Rethink
Inadequate Infrastructure for Waste collection and
treatment.
Reuse/Recycle
Waste to Resource
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Waste to Resource: OverviewWaste
Secondary materials/products
Compost/Manure
Energy/Fuel
Electricity
Biogas
Building/Construction materials
Raw material for primary/secondary products
Biofertilizer
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Success Stories
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First Zero Waste Colony in Delhi
Mahila Mandal
Kitchen Garden Association
Senior Citizens' Council
Local councilor
Municipal staff
Waste contractors
General residents
•Sarita Vihar, a middle-income residential settlement in South Delhi
•No. of households: 230
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Action Points and Outcomes
Source segregation and on-site composting was considered as the best alternative
Economic and environmental consequences of each alternative
List of available alternatives
Capacity Building Workshops
• After one month's trial period: 2,000 kg of organic waste in the neighborhood pits (30% participation).
• By the end of the second month, 73.3% residents of the Block were participating in the programme effectively.
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Reasons for Success
• Co-operation from the local political representatives.
• Involvement of concerned municipal department.
• High level of participation from the residents.
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Organizing the UnorganizedChallenges:• Issues like sexual harassment, no secure jobs, unskilled, stopped waste
pickers to leave their job of waste/scrap collection.
Solution:
• Foundation of Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) : Trade
union of waste-pickers in Pune, Maharashtra by Dr. Baba Adhav,
President of the Hamal Panchayat.
• About thirty adult women waste-pickers were issued identity cards by
SNDT University for collecting source segregated scrap in the
neighborhood.
• "Convention of Waste-pickers“(1993): Attended by over 800 waste-
pickers.
• As of 2014, it had approximately 10,000 members, both women and men.
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Positive Outcomes
• Establishing scrap collectors as "workers" and scrap collection as "work"
• Integration of waste-pickers into the doorstep collection and management of urban solid waste
• Mobilising around political and social issues• Change in public perception
Benefits to waste-pickers: Improved Earnings: Segregated scrap fetched better rates Reduction in working hours Improved physical working conditions Life insurance claims amounting to almost Rs.5 lakh have been
disbursed since the commencement of the scheme. Co-operative Scrap store: Kashtachi Kamai (earnings from labour)
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Wonders of waste disposal in Kanpur• In June 2008, KNN gave a BOOT (build, own, operate, transfer)
contract for processing and disposing of solid waste to A2Z Infrastructure.
• 46 acres of land was given free on a long lease of 30 years for the project.
Plant Components:Pre-segregation unit
Composting unit
RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) unit
Plastic segregating unit
Briquette manufacturing unit
Secured landfill in place
Plant to process 1500 tonnes per day capacity of solid waste was set up
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Positive Outcomes • Minimizing fuel thefts by installing GPS in all the waste collection
vehicles.
• Improved earnings, social security and health benefits to waste-
pickers.
• Due to integrated waste management approach, very little (around
2%) was to be deposited in the landfill.
• Kanpur Nagar Nigam received the JNNURM award of excellence for
Best City for Improvement in Solid Waste Management from the
prime minister in 2011.
In 2010, A2Z Infrastructure, the private company, invested Rs 110 crore of their own money in setting up a waste-to-energy plant
The plant produces 15 MW of electricity, using RDF produced in-house
Plant has been registered with UNFCCC for carbon credits
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Innovations in waste to resource
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Fabric from Plastic: Arora Fibres
• Has been recycling discarded plastic bottles into polyester staple
fibre since 1994
• Recycles discarded plastic bottles into polyester used as
packaging material
• Factory with the capacity to process 18,000 tonnes of plastic a
year and plans to increase that to 48,000
• The industry depends on rag pickers for raw material.
• Applications: Industries like automobiles, used as packaging
material for beverages, food products, pharmaceuticals, and
consumer and industrial products.
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The Levis Case: Waste<Less• Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) approach.
• At least 20% post-consumer plastic recycled content.
• Plastic bottles and food trays are collected from municipal sites,
cleaned, sorted, crushed into flakes and made into a polyester
fibre.
• More than 3.6m bottles and food trays for 300,000 Waste<Less
jeans.
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From waste to wealth- Chennai
• Joint project of 3 colleges in Chennai.• Plastic waste was turned into the building blocks of their campus.• Building benches, walls and restrooms using discarded plastic
from their canteen• Pet bottle brick technology – wherein plastic bottles are filled
with mud and used to build structures.• Students of the college worked for two months on weekends to
build the benches.• Nearly 3,000 empty plastic bottles were filled air-tight with mud
and sealed together to build three benches. • The colleges and the foundation have also tied up with the Taj
group of hotels to get their used bottles.
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What comes to your mind?
How can this be reused?
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Earthship Biotecture: Taos, New Mexico.• Mike Reynolds: Founder of Earthship Biotecture.• An earthship is a type of passive solar house made of natural
and recycled materials.
• Based on three basic principles:i. Sustainable Architecture: Use of indigenous as well as
recycled materials wherever possible.
ii. Independent from the “grid”: Rely on natural energy sources.
iii. Economically Feasible: Average person with no specialized construction skills should be able to create.
Learn more on: http://www.earthship.com
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Sneakers from Ocean Trash: Adidas
A concept sneaker made almost entirely out of plastic waste and discarded fishnets taken from the sea.
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Sneakers from Ocean Trash: Adidas
Some of these nets were even confiscated from poachers by Sea Shepherd environmental activists
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Sneakers from Ocean Trash: Adidas
The nets and ocean trash are turned into fibers that can be used in various garments
Adidas plans to use these fibers in their products by early 2016
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Some Benefits of ‘Waste to Resource’
Increased life of landfills
Resource conservation
Employment Generation
Alternate source of energy
Induce Innovations
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THANK YOU !!