Community Collection and Co-processing of Mixed Plastics in New Delhi, India (PPRS) incentivizing local collectors and aggregators

incentivizing local collectors and aggregators

All household waste is collected and sorted to recover valuable materials

which is used to make food and beverage containers

Much of it ends up in the ocean making Thailand among the top ten largest contributors to marine plastic

preventing it from degrading into microplastics and making it more suitable for recycling

Community Collection and Co-processing of Mixed Plastics in New Delhi, India (PPRS) incentivizing local collectors and aggregatorsThis project partner buys mixed plastics that are difficult or impossible to recycle from waste pickers who collect plastic from landfills, households, commercial buildings, and streets across India, and sends it to a licensed co processing facility, where its used as an alternative fuel in a waste to energy recovery process. Like many emerging markets, India lacks adequate waste management infrastructure. Many rivers are clogged with unmanaged