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Read MoreFor all Pan Indian residents -
Don't throw away empty plastic containers of your toiletries. Follow these simple steps to recycle your plastic waste like empty shampoo, conditioner and detergent b ottles, broken toys or broken plastic chairs etc
1) Collect all the waste in a box or paper bag
2) Whatsapp your address to 8800714236
3) Every Saturday and Sunday your bag with all the plastic waste will be collected.
4) This will them be sent to Shayna Eco-Unified.
5) They convert this plastic waste to tiles and bricks which can be used for construction.
This is a simple step towards becoming more green, and less wasteful. ????
For more information on Shayna EcoUnified check their website-
https://www.shaynaecounified.com/
Waste segregation and separation:-
1. Kitchen waste - can be easily turned into composte to use for the plants and the garden. It doesn’t smell at all if done properly.
Composte making needs 4 components; nitrogen, carbon, water and air. The kitchen waste is the nitrogen, cocobeat or powder is the carbon, moisture is the water and the holes let the air come in.
What can go in:- fruits and vegetable peels, egg shells, seeds, cooked food, meat and fish bones, tea and coffee, only coated paper, dried flowers...
What can’t go in :- coconut waste, plastic, disposables, newspaper, batteries, cigarette butts, medicine strips...
2. Puja flowers and dried leaves - can also be composted
Dailydump.org can help you kick start the composting process...
Samidha Bansal +91 99999 97258
3. Plastic - wash all the plastic items and can send to Chintan in Lajpat Nagar. They also pick up as long as the waste is a minimum of 7-8kg
Chintan takes all old bottles, jars, old toothbrush, toothpaste tubes, medicine bottles, tubes, shampoo bottles, disposable containers, plastic tape, bubble wrap, milk cartons, empty yoghurt cups, chocolate wrappers, paper like old bills, clothes tags, etc
Micro segregation of waste
Authorised recyclers
4. They also take glass, broken glass (wrapped in paper), e waste like batteries, wire, bulbs, electrical fittings, old electronics, kitchen appliances, etc
Chintan in C14, 2nd floor, Lajpat nagar
Junaki +91 92051 92511
Once you start all of the above, the daily household waste will be minimal - can substitute garbage bags for newspaper lining. Since the kitchen waste is not there, the newspapers won’t get wet
7. Old items (clothes, toys, utensils, etc) can be sent to Lajpat Bhavan which resells them at their thrift shop or you can send to Goonj
8. Old note books - mothers international recycles them
9. Books and magazines - Jaishree Goyal in H-19, 3rd floor, Maharani Bagh... she has opened libraries for the underprivileged children
10. Old toys (not broken) and unwanted toys - Spread a smile
Sangita Mehra +91 97178 66620 OP Chabbra
11. Old school text books - Guncha Foundation
+91 98715 18825 Mohd Rafique
12. Left over food after big parties
Feeding Delhi - 09871178810
Robin Hood Army
Some of the small things we can do to help:-
1. Stop plastic straws - Paper straws, steel straws else ditch the straw totally - each straw takes over 400 years to get decomposed
Bamboo straws and wheat straws
Pappco Greenware 022 22414333
2. Similarly bamboo ear buds instead of the traditional ear buds
Order at Bamboo India
3. Carry water bottles from the house instead of buying and ordering bottled water
4. Give all staff a cloth bag or a jute bag and keep a few bags in the car also so we can totally ditch the plastic bag
5. Edible cutlery instead of plastic cutlery
bakeys.com +91 93937 62080
Trishula edible cutlery
6. Pens rolled in paper instead of plastic and pencils rolled in newspaper instead of wood (avoids the felling of trees)
thepureliving.in +91 9895040899
www.gograameem.com - pencils made out of newspapers
7. Bamboo toothbrush - bristles of our regular toothbrushes takes up to almost 1000 years to decompose
Order at Bamboo India
8. Biodegradable bags made out of tapioca - Envigreen
By starclean...011-41614161 Biodegradable bags (not sure if these are really bio degradable)
9. Washable cloth bag with multi partitions. Each pouch can carry 1kg @ Rs150. Suparna Anand 9810035323
10. For excess leftover food...
Feeding Delhi - 09871178810
Robin Hood Army
11. Green sole discard old shoes
Navin Mumbai - 08879982045