India Conservation Centre update
We’re continuing to work on as many projects as we can during the pandemic, including our pilot decentralised Composting and Aquaponic (CAP) systems, plastic collection and segregation. We’re making great progress - update below!
- Almost all the work has been finished on building the shredding and extrusion machines. All that’s left to do is the painting, electricals and sanding!
- Before we start to shred or extrude, it’s been essential to segregate the waste into different categories such as HDPE, PET, and PP. This is an important part of the process because plastics have different melting points. The team has sorted through over half the waste collected from the community, businesses and two schools.
- Over the past one and a half years we’ve collected a colossal amount of rubbish as part of our ’Plastic-free for the Sea’ project, including tens of thousands of spoons, straws and food wrappers. The products were full of sand so Krishna has been cleaning each item to ensure they’re safe for the shredding blade and extrusion machine.
- Signage for vendors, promoting the new eco-friendly alternative products, are now printed and in use!
Thank you to everyone involved for making our work in India possible.
