5.6.Purchasing and obtaining waste and raw-stuff

Purchasing raw stuff from people.

Permanent social advertising campaign takes place. At the area of ISKCON-Mayapur all organizations send their waste strictly to the recycling department. It is strictly prohibited to sell and send waste and raw-stuff to independent waste buyers. Janitors and cleaners are not allowed to assign and get waste for themselves. The department of recycling must have a separate phone number to get orders for waste transportation. V-cards and advertising flyers are also to be printed.

Price list of waste reselling in Bamanpekher (transportation included)

1. Glass bottle..........2 rupies

2. Polyethylene.........................10 rupies / 1 kg

3. Plastic bottles........................20 rupies / 1 kg

4. Zinked stuff...........................1.7 rupies / 1 kg

5. Armature.............................23 rupies / 1 kg

6. Non-ferrous metals...........................20 rupies / 1 kg

7. Lamps .................................2 roubles / 1 kg

8. New paper........................9

9. Old paper.......................8

10. Textile.................................... kg

11. Rubber................................. kg

12. Stretch....................................... kg

13. Foam plastic..................... m³

Low cost purchasing from local people also takes place.

fig.10 Scales used.

6.Transportation of waste.

Clean recycling means right packing, storage and transportation of waste.

6.1.The current situation (analysis)

Each city or town has its own ways of logistics, collecting and transportation. It is necessary to identify weaknesses and eliminate them.

For example, in Mayapur:

They use two carriages pulled by 4 bulls and handcarts. The rent of bulls costs 4000 rupies. Poorly controlled bulls do the job slowly, so 6-8 people involved in the work remain low-efficient and do waste time. The carriage is too high, so it takes 3 people to lift up the waste to load it. This is an ineffective way. Sometimes bulls feel the work is too hard so they stop it. So the loading and unloading is not systematic but chaotic.

fig. 11 Bull-driven carriage

After meals or shopping people do throw packs and waste into one place, so there comes the first mix of waste. At the moment of waste collection, loaders sort (and steal) all high-priced raw-stuff, and other waste are loaded into carriage, so it mixes it a second time. At the moment of unloading the third mixing takes place. So in the end it is totally messed and mixed up. (They did burn waste month ago!). In one of the areas of town they separately collected the waste but then they mix it up by unloading it into the same heap. At the main street there is collection and transportation by motor-rickshaw (2 people) organized by charity actions of one of the Spiritual teachers. The small part of city is equipped with barrels and 1 motor-rickshaw collects waste. In other areas, waste is dumped near houses to be burnt.