Projects Listing
Here are some of our projects described briefly
Creating Awareness of Waste Plastic and Segregation at Source – Since 2014- Till date. The trust has completed more than 1550 awareness programs in last ELEVEN years. Face to face seminars were conducted in many schools, offices, housing societies, clubs etc. Since Covid -19 pandemic the awareness is conducted online.
The idea behind the project is to make the villages Smart, and waste management plays a big role in the scheme. Organic waste and the plastic waste create problems for rural India. The waste may not be picked up, and if it is then usually itis in the mixed form, which is dumped and burned.
The project is devised with the following objectives.
- Reduce waste / use waste as resource - Waste is a useful resource which can be convertedinto energy which can be used locally. It is always a better option than throwing waste inlandfill or burning it.
- Energy Independence – Villages can use the energy produced by organic and plastic waste. The streetlights and other equipment can be run on waste energy thus making itsustainable and also creating valuable savings in electricity bills.
- Employment creation – the project will ensure that local employment is generated in the form of roles for waste collector, segregator, operators, maintenance etc. These will be long term employment opportunities.
- Women upliftment – The focus will be to ensure women in rural areas are trained and educated on the correct waste disposal methods and the waste treatment plants can be operated by women. There will be focus on creating employment for local women.
From 5th June 2022, the trust has started planting and looking after the trees on ARAI hills along with PMC and forest department. AT present around 950 indigenous trees have been planted after studying the local soil condition. The trust has decided to plant 1111 trees in this year, and this will continue for the next 7 years. A gardener has been appointed to look after the trees and water them, ensuring that most of the planted trees survive.
The work started with proper selection of trees, choosing 3 to 5 years old trees ensuring the higher survival rate with idea to replenishing, with area specific for the hill area.
Experts have been appointed to ensure only area specific trees are planted and what type of other shrubs, plants, creepers are needed.
Along with Rudra, we help various organizations to build bitumen road. There are many advantages to using plastic waste in roads namely, Strength of the road increased (Increased Marshall Stability Value), Better resistance to water and water stagnation, No stripping and have no potholes, Increased binding and better bonding of the mix, with Increased load withstanding property (Withstanding increased load transport). We have worked with companies Skoda India, Marico, Dow Chemicals to build roads.
Crisil and Trust tied up for a three-month long project “PAES” (Plastic Awareness for Environment & Society) was undertaken. The awareness was created in various societies and schools in Pimple Saudagar area. The school children collected the waste plastic from home and visited the Rudra factory in Jejuri to witness the waste plastic to fuel process.
On environment day, a white board was erected in Phoenix Shopping mall, and guests were asked to take a pledge to reduce use of plastic and segregate, to show their willingness they signed the board. This was done over three-day period.
Employees from Seagate joined Trust volunteers for cleaning of historical place “Shaniwar Wada” Total 55 kg of plastic waste was collected from surrounding area.
The employees of the firm decided to come with Trusts team for cleaning Shaniwar Wada. Some 32 kg of plastic waste was collected.
Plastic waste awareness and collection drive in various schools and colleges in Pune. More than 500 students participated, and some 6 MT of plastic was collected during two-month long project.
The trust had adopted 39 villages in Kagal district, Kolhapur which were affected by severe floods. The accumulation of waste plastic was becoming a major problem. Trust did a survey of affected area and with villagers, gram sevak’s help collected more than 2.5 MT of plastic waste and with EXpleo India’s help it was transported to Rudra’s Jejuri factory.
Trust requires bags for storage of plastic waste that is collected from various households in Pune and PCMC. These bags are used bags and are used multiple times. Expleo has been supporting Trust for two months with procurement of these collection bags.
Under the banner of Rethink project Trust has been creating awareness of waste plastic in various schools and societies of Pune. Total 25 to 27 MT of platic waste was collected. Even during the pandemic the trust collected the waste from households with strict SOP and with health and saftey of employees.
The school situated at Pendhar, was in a dilapidated stage. It was Zilla Parishad building and old. There was a need for major overhaul and upgradation of the building. Due to age and neglect, there were many walls and roof leaking. It was making it difficult for students to sit in the classrooms. With help of Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd, the trust with its expertise in construction have been able to transform the school making it more inviting, clean, and updated.