Sustainable
Development Goals(SDG)
Inappropriate disposal of plastic waste poses significant challenges and impacts today. Plastic waste pollutes land, rivers, and oceans, leading to widespread contamination. Animals ingest plastic or become entangled in it, leading to injury or death. Micro plastics in water and food sources pose potential health risks to humans. Inadequate infrastructure for plastic recycling and waste management exacerbates the problem. Plastic disrupts habitats and can cause long-term damage to ecosystems. Species are threatened by plastic pollution, leading to declines in biodiversity.
This project goes beyond climate change mitigation by putting in efforts into collection of Plastic waste, category wise plastic segregation and further more ensuring the appropriate recycling of the Plastic waste ending the plastic life cycle.
Through such practices, the waste is diverted from entering the Landfills that harms the ecosystems, human life and the climate. Practices followed by the project in this informal sector has enabled in bringing transparency and accountability in the value chain right from the source of the plastic waste which has created awareness in the masses and sense of responsibility.
Along with an environmental objective the project also can be seen as a social initiative. Through this project, many under privileged like rag-pickers have been given employment and have been provided help in improving their living conditions. Gas connection, water connections have also been provided to the rag-pickers. Primary Education is also provided to the children of some such families. Employment has been given, especially to women rag-pickers ensuring them financial empowerment and security.
Through this project awareness towards reduction of harmful plastic waste in the environment, it’s impact and climate change being a major consequence, is created among st the people. Such awareness drives are also conducted in schools to inculcate mitigation of such a global threat in young minds. This will imbibe the sensitivity towards built and Natural environments and the Ecosystems around the world. With the project Revitalization, you not only support this project activity which is committed to protect the environmental health but also help provide social and economic enlistment to the vulnerable and the impoverished strata working in this informal sector that require urgent and coordinated action.