5 Companies who sell RECYCLED PRODUCTS
Waste isn't a waste. It's the raw material for the next recycled products. Our daily waste including clothes, e-waste, plastics, and many more is not fully biodegradable and ends up being disposed of on the overflowing landfills. The 3 Rs of sustainability is conscientiously the only possible way to reduce those overflowing landfills from garbage and those are REDUCE, REUSE, and RECYCLE.
But how practical is all this effort, if thousands of bottles, newspapers, cloth pieces, e-waste articles are discarded every day, and only some are reused? There are many things you can do at home to do your bit for the environment, but should you need it, help is available outdoors as well. A variety of organizations have been launched in India itself, to help you reuse, reduce and recycle the products you use on an everyday basis.
Below, we list down such Indian startups and services which are taking one step close to a sustainable future.
ECOKARI
Have you ever wondered what happens to the plastic wrappers or plastic wrappers of wafers are were utilized? They can be recycled to make other products and can be Reused to Reduce plastic waste. But in India, all these plastics are generally burnt to release some toxic and life-threatening gases or end up choking animals.
Pune-based EcoKaari has taken it upon itself to transform disposed of plastic waste into the handwoven fabric. Started last year by Nandan Bhat, this organization works with artisans who use the charkha and handloom to create this unique material which turns into fashion accessories, home décor, and office stationery.
EcoKaari works with four types of plastic waste: polythene bags (single-use plastic carry bags and grocery bags), multi-layered wrappers of cookies, chips, detergents, pulses, and flour, etc., gift wrappers, and old audio and video cassette tapes. Apart from these, it also accepts bread packets, bubble wrap, foam, transparent plastic, and plastic packets from online e-commerce portals such as Myntra, Amazon, and Flipkart.
NEMITAL
NEMITAL is a footwear company that makes shoes and other kinds of footwear for all gender. They make them by recycling tires of trucks, cars, bikes, and from all sorts of vehicles. A tire is a great alternative for leather providing the same quality and durability.
Tire is a pretty hard rubber which proves to be an excellent sole for shoes. Because of their long durability, they prove to be very useful when it comes to walking long distances without any fear of getting torn.
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| All their products are handmade by local artisans. |
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BLUECATPAPER
BLUE CAT PAPER is a paper manufacturing company but which make this company unique from other paper mill is that they make 100% TREE FREE papers. And also their products are almost handmade and hand-painted. But the question is how do they make paper without using trees? This company collects cotton rags, coffee and corn husk, rice stubble, coconuts, and also elephant excrete and recycle them and make papers. Their paper is also 100% chemical. Let me tell you how. The white paper we get from the market is colored white by adding chemicals but this company uses white cotton rags to make white paper, so not only do we have natural paper and a wide range of a variety of paper of different colors, textures, and materials. Their papers are chemical free so they are biodegradable and can be decomposed to make organic fertilizers.
SHAYYA
‘Shayya’ is a bedroll for anyone who needs a mattress including First-Line Treatment Centres (FLTC), shelter homes, or homeless to use as beds. These bedrolls are created from the scrap that accumulates while making Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that would otherwise be thrown out as garbage. And unlike regular mattresses used in FLTC, Shayya is very easy to disinfect. The PPE Shayya is lightweight at only 2.5-5kg.
Just like a mat in appearance, the ‘Shayya’ is suitable for one person to comfortably lie on. It is made by braiding the leftover pieces collected from tailoring units that produce PPE in Kerala. After making braids from the pieces by hand, these are joined together in a similar fashion of a cloth mat. 35 meters of such braids will be required to create one bedroll.
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CodeEffortPvt.Ltd
Noida-based startup, Code, started in 2018 by friends Naman Gupta and Vipul gupta is recycling cigarette waste to produce products ranging from soft toys to manure.
Across the world about 4.5 trillion cigarettes are discarded each year with more than 100 billion cigarettes being dumped, on the streets and elsewhere, in India alone. While most of the cigarette disintegrates when burnt, what’s left behind are the cigarette butts.
These contain filters that are made of a plastic called cellulose acetate which takes years to degrade, and as they do, microplastics are released into the soil and oceans. A recent study found that one cigarette butt in a liter of water kills half the fish. On a mission to combat this pollution two friends from Noida, Naman Gupta, a Delhi University graduate, and Vishal Kanet, an engineer, founded Code, a company that recycles cigarette waste into different products.
COTACT NUMBER
9205423008
9205423004
FACEBOOK LINK
https://m.facebook.com/codeeffort/
Conclusion:- Recycling can prevent the waste of potentially useful materials and can help in the reduced consumption of raw materials and also reducing the energy usage and pollution. It helps in conserving natural resources. The increasing population in the world also increased the need for raw materials which results in overexploitation but recycling reduces the need for raw materials in every product by upcycling the old itself.
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