PRC India 2017: Raising the rate
PRC India 2017: Raising the rate
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Global Waste Recyclers Limited (GWRL) handles some 5,000 tonnes per month of recovered fibre in Chennai, India, baling most of what it collects. According to presenters at the 2017 Paper Recycling Conference India, held in Mumbai in early February, it is one of the few paper recycling firms operating at that scale in all of India.
GWRL “is South India’s largest paper recycler,” said Bharath Pujara, an officer and second-generation member of the family that founded GWRL. The company has a 40,000-square-foot warehouse, computerized scales and its own trucks, forklifts and high-volume baler. All of this makes GWRL distinctive in India, said Pujara, because there, “90% of collection is carried out by the informal sector.”
Whether seeking funding for plant space, trucks or balers “working capital is a big challenge for paper suppliers” in India, Pujara added.
Demand for finished paper is rising in India, causing Pujara to urge the nation’s elected officials to consider legislation to support greater collection, whether from households, offices or schools.
Lalit Garg of Ramji Board and Paper Mill Pvt. Ltd., Vapi, India, said India’s fragmented retail sector is one reason why even old corrugated containers (OCC), not to mention other grades, are under-recovered in India. Too much fibre, he said, “is thrown in the garbage; that’s a loss.”
Garg said increased recovery in India can bring down the cost of scrap paper and is important to paper producers in Vapi and other parts of Gujarat state, where he says some 4 million tonnes per year of recovered fibre is consumed.
The informal sector of peddlers and scavengers that currently collects scrap paper has been the focus of the Well-being Out of Waste (WOW) program put in place by ITC Limited.
Prabhakar Venneti, a vice president with ITC, said WOW has worked with some 2,200 “waste handlers” (peddlers or scavengers) to help bring some 20,000 tonnes of recovered fibre into more formal channels.
He said WOW is working to educate school children about the importance of recycling and it also partners with “enthusiastic and enlightened city managements” to organise collection programs.
A recovered fibre trader based in India, who asked for anonymity, said increasing collection via those tactics is often made difficult by entrenched, criminal organisations who oversee the current informal collection systems throughout India.
The 2017 Paper Recycling Conference India was 6 and 7 February at The Leela Hotel in Mumbai.
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Source: Recycling Today
PRC India 2017: Raising the rate
<![CDATA[Global Waste Recyclers Limited (GWRL) handles some 5,000 tonnes per month of recovered fibre in Chennai, India, baling most of what it collects. According to presenters at the 2017 Paper Recycling Conference India, held in Mumbai in early February, it is one of the few paper recycling firms operating at that scale in all of India. GWRL “is South India’s largest paper recycler,” said Bharath Pujara, an officer and second-generation member of the family that founded GWRL. The company has a 40,000-square-foot warehouse, computerized scales and its own trucks, forklifts and high-volume baler. All of this makes GWRL distinctive in India, said Pujara, because there, “90% of collection is carried out by the informal sector.” Whether seeking funding for plant space, trucks or balers “working capital is a big challenge for paper suppliers” in India, Pujara added. Demand for finished paper is rising in India, causing Pujara to urge the nation’s elected officials to consider legislation to support greater collection, whether from households, offices or schools. Lalit Garg of Ramji Board and Paper Mill Pvt. Ltd., Vapi, India, said India’s fragmented retail sector is one reason why even old corrugated containers (OCC), not to mention other…