SDC Foundation & Airbus to jointly work on establishing 300 plastic banks in Dehradun

Thursday, 07 December 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN

Dehradun based Social Development for Communities (SDC) Foundation and Airbus India have announced their CSR collaboration to set up 300 plastic banks in Dehradun.

Under this collaboration, SDC Foundation shall collect, segreate and process plastic waste primarily for conversion of waste to energy — conversion of plastic waste to fuel. The plastic waste that will be collected from the various plastic banks will be brought to the plastic waste storage and segregation center of SDC Foundation. The waste will be segregated here and will be handed over for the plastic to fuel project of CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum and to other authorised recyclers of plastic waste. 

The founder of SDC Foundation Anoop Nautiyal said that the plastic banks will be set up at schools, colleges, hostels, showrooms, government offices, hospitals, religious places, hotels and apartment blocks. The target is to open 70-80 plastic banks in the next six months with a goal to reach 250-300 plastic banks by March 2025. As a part of this collaboration, several on-premise capacity building and awareness workshops, clean-up drives and rally’s particularly for the students and schools to boost the collective mindset of the participants towards reduction, reuse and recycling of plastic waste will be organised regularly.

Nautiyal said, “With increasing disposable incomes, changing lifestyles and a larger influx of tourists, plastic waste has surged significantly in the last several years. Apart from inculcating the practice of segregation, the collected plastic waste will be recycled in a scientific manner. While on the one hand this will promote circularity; it will also reduce littering and waste burden on open spaces and waste collection centres in the city.”