Mukkti, Sahakari Bhandar & Reliance team up to pledge mukkti from plastic


With the motto to get rid of plastic use and a bid to save our environment, social activist Smita Thackeray of Mukkti Foundation inaugurated Rebot, an automated plastic recycling machine at Mukkti Foundation in Andheri West. Corporator Devendra Bala Amberkar also attended the inaugural event. With the tagline, ‘Paryavaran Bachao – Plastic Se Mukkti Pao’, Smita Thackeray averred, “the safety of the environment is the need of the hour and this is just a small step towards it. There are many more to come!”

In today’s date, approximately 72 million tonnes of hazardous waste is generated annually, requiring, at the current rate, one square kilometer additional landfill space each year to accommodate this waste. Thirty million tonnes of this waste takes hundreds of years to breakdown. Not being able to contain the said waste, we can already see that the plastics have started to enter our food chain.

To curb this damage, “an automated PET bottle recycling machine, Rebot, allows the user to insert a bottle in the bottle insertion slot, following which the machine will crush the bottle. Furthermore, the user will get an option to choose a reward coupon or to donate to the cause. The crushed plastic is then recycled by us to make by-products, thereby reducing landfill usage and increasing the recycling rate,” concluded Smita Thackeray. Previously, similar machines were inaugurated by Nita Ambani and Aaditya Thackeray.

More power to such initiatives!

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