The Visionaries

9

ENVIRONMENT

RELEVANCE

Saahas

HCLTech Grant Project:

Sustainable Waste Management through Community-Owned Rural

Resource Recovery Systems

HCL

Grant

Recipient

Environment,

2021

India generates close to 26000 tons of

plastic waste daily. In rural areas plastic

waste is rising exponentially, and is

usually burnt in the open as there are no

recycling facilities. e Project has the

goal of creating zero-waste communities,

and aims to implement segregated waste

collection and composting at village level;

aggregation of plastic waste at Taluk level

RRFs to increase recycling of plastic waste,

and reducing pollution due to improper

waste disposal. It has also been successful

in empowering women to be the agents

of social change, and extending the reach

of government schemes like the Swachh

Bharat Mission, MGNREGS etc

• Implementing segregated,

community owned waste

management systems in 143

Gram Panchayats (GPs) in

Karnataka

• 46% of households and shops

giving segregated waste to the

door-to-door collection vehicle

• 8500 kilograms of dry waste

per day collected and recycled,

instead of dumping in landfills

and burning

• 109 GPs are collecting service

fees from waste generators and

have collected

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1,08,67,177 this

financial year

• Total number of direct

beneficiaries is 10,20,684.