WWT, ELCIA introduces new recyclng facility in Banglore

KARNATAKA (Scrap Monster): Waste Wise Trust (WWT), a solid waste management organization, based in Bangalore in partnership with The Electronics City Industries' Association (ELCIA) has announced the inauguration of the first of its kind recycling facility at Electronics City Bangalore.

The inauguration will be held on January 05, 2012 at 5 PM at the Solid Waste Management Facility , Near Ajmera Apartment, Dodda Thoguru Road, Electronics City, Bangalore. AS Sadashivaiah IFS (Retd), Chairman, Karnataka Pollution Control Board will inaugurate the facility. Wipro Technologies Ltd. will be the guests of honour.

The waste management facility initiated by ElCIA provides a decentralized, market based solution in waste management. It will help in retrieving hundreds and thousands of tonnes of recyclable waste going to the dump sites and help in the process of recycling.

In course of time, the facility through its services, hopes to arrive at Zero Waste Management at Electronics City. The facility has been designed to handle dry recyclable waste like paper, plastic, glass and metals and also organic waste like leaf litter and garden waste

The facility will receive on a daily basis from member companies dry recyclable materials which will be sorted into categories of paper, plastics, glass and metals. The sorted materials would then be sent to recycling factories for recycling purposes. The road sweep in the form of leaf and garden litter will be converted into compost through various forms of composting.

First of its kind initiated by an Industries association in Bangalore and perhaps in India
the facility provides a model for industries and wards of the city to follow in addressing critical waste management issues and it Sets in motion new trends in social habits and caring for the environment. It will also provide new approaches in market based solution to waste management. The facility will make all generators to take responsibility of their action towards environment

Waste Wise Trust (WWT) is a solid waste management organisation and member of The Solid Waste Management Round Table Bengaluru (SWMRT). It was set up in 2003 as a project of Mythri Sarva Seva Samithi, a 25 year old community based organisation working on urban poverty and livelihood issues. WWT runs its own recycling facility in Bangalore. The Electronics City recycling facility will be the second recycling facility managed by WWT.