Nagpur NGO planning tetrapack recycling unit

Following the best from waste concept, city-based NGO Centre Sustainable Development (CSD) has carried out a survey to quantify tetrapack waste generated in the city. At a later stage, it is planning to recycle it because tetrapack waste can be of great value as it contains paper and aluminium. A Delhi-based NGO Chintan, working in association with tetrapack manufacturers, had earlier approached CSD to carry out this survey.

As part of the survey, the NGO is getting sales figures from major tetrapack distributors in the city. The figures reveal a popular mango juice company sells 5,500 packs daily and 1,65,000 monthly, whereas another popular fruit juice brand generates a sale of 2000 packs daily or 60,000 packs monthly.

Tetrapacks being stiff containers are usually used for liquid food packages. They contain 60% cardboard and 40% aluminium foil used as lining with a plastic lid. These contents can be segregated and recycled for use by many industries including paper mills and furnishing industry. The survey also found that major tetrapack waste generators in the city were locations like industrial canteens, railway stations, bus stands, hotels, malls etc.

CSD president Leena Buddhe said, "the tetrapacks after being collected from these locations shall be ideally brought to a unit where they can be crushed using custom-made machines." Such packets are very smelly because the left over liquids inside it rotting. So recycling units will be established somewhere on the outskirts of the city.

She also said that collection of such waste from these location could be another major issue. The NGO earlier had a word with Kanak Resources Management Ltd, the private agency entrusted with disposal of waste in city, who may help out with the collection of tetrapacks. Buddhe also said she had talked to the city's scrap dealers to ask if they collected tetrapacks because of its cardboard content. None of them did so because even though light, tetrapacks occupy a large volume and cannot conveniently be transported.

She said, "After the study is completed we will start working on setting up recycling unit."

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