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Bio-booths to handle waste Bottles to Blazers

luva municipality, at the municipal office he father-son duo, K Shankar
Kochi has to treat waste from and Senthil, of Shree Renga
collaborated with a municipality’s canteen. Polymers in Tamil Nadu
local private waste These booths will have taken to recycling PET
Amanagement firm soon be installed in Tbottles into fashionwear brand,
to launch automated bio areas like private EcoLine. The plastic waste goes
booths that help reduce bus stand, Paravur through the process of collection &
human intervention Junction and town sorting, crushing & flaking, melting
while treating waste. halls, including & spinning, weaving into fabric
These air- Thottakkattukara and waterless drying. The team has
conditioned booths, Priyadarshini Town developed a customer base stretching
called Robobin Food Hall and Mahatma across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka,
Waste Management Gandhi Town Hall. Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra,
Experience, are Hotels and restaurants Uttar Pradesh and Puducherry.
designed to handle can also use the facility According to EcoLine, eight PET
up to 50kg of organic by paying a fee. bottles can be recycled to make one
solid waste and 5,000 Municipality officials T-shirt, 20 for a jacket, and 30 for a
litres of wastewater said an initial study blazer. This sustainable fashionwear
daily. The booths will on bio-booths was is priced between Rs500 to Rs6,000.
also convert waste into promising and this A blue jacket made from 25 PET
biogas and manure. would be hailed as bottles recycled by EcoLine made
Construction cost per ‘Aluva model’ of waste news as Prime Minister Narendra
unit is Rs3 lakh, and the management in the near Modi wore it for a session in
first booth was set up future. Parliament.

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