How to Deal with Dry waste

A snapshot of How to Set-up and Manage Recycling your Dry Waste.

1. How to deal with
DryWaste
Welcome to the worldof
Recycling, Upcycling, and Reuse

2. Whatdo you change?
From this……to This
dry waste
recyclables
secondary sorting
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Photo: Karan Ananth, article on Kasa
Rasa, Bangalore, The Hindu (online ed.)
recycling
asphalting
(plastic roads)
paper
plastics
recycling
glass recycling

3. 3
What is
Dry Waste?
d
Aerosol cans
d
Aluminum cans/foil
d
Metal bottle caps
d
Glass bottles & Jars
d
Incandescent Bulbs,
d
Tetrapack
d
Thermocole/Styrofoam
d
Tickets
d
Bills & statements*
d
Envelopes & Covers
d
Notices
d
Pamphlets
d
Paper wrappers
d
Computer Printouts
d
Paper plates
d
Plastic bags
d
Plastic bottles
d
Plastic packaging
d
Broken toys
d
Bubble wrap
d
Take-away containers*
d
Food packets*
d
Pickle packs*
d
Milk Sachets*
* Food packets, pickle packs and take-away
food containers have to be thoroughly
rinsed and dried before disposal
* Food covers that are too oily should be
discarded with debris waste
WARNING
:
Do not crush aerosol cans
Rinse and dry glass bottles before disposal
Dispose broken glass/ceramic with debris waste
after placing in a thick plastic/paper bag
Papers that are oily and soiled tissue
papers should be discarded with debris
waste
* Tear any confidential papers such as bank
statements/notices before disposal.
Newspapers can be collected on a monthly
basis and donated to NGOs who make bags
for sanitary waste. PlasticsPaperMetal, Glass & Others

4. x
Wet waste (yuck! ruins the waste carefully segregated by others)
x
Sweeping dust, wood waste etc. (dispose with debris waste or with wet waste)
x
Human/Animal hair (it’s of course dry but sadly not recyclable, dispose with sani tary waste)
x
Soiled food covers/containers (rinse and dry them before disposing with dry waste)
x
Sanitary Waste such as napkins and diapers(dispose used/unused diapers etc. with sanitary waste)
x
Cigarette butts
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What is
NOT
Dry Waste
Do not dispose take away
containers with food.
Dispose food in Wet Waste bin, rinse and
dry the container/cover and before
disposing with dry waste
Do not dispose Human or pet-
hair with dry waste. Dispose
these in Sanitary Waste
Do not dispose ear
buds, waxing strips etc with
Dry Waste. These should go
with Sanitary Waste.

5. 5
Dry Waste
Do’s
Food in a cover?
Dispose food contents
into
Wet Waste
bin
Rinse cover if food contents were wet. Dry at
kitchen sink before disposing in your
Dry
Waste
bag
Squeeze your toothpaste
facewash etc to the last before
disposal. Use an old
toothbrush for this …saves at
least a week’s worth of stuff
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Empty and rinse out
remnants in shampoo
or moisturizer bottles.
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Open up and
crush/fold paper
cartons before
disposal. Saves a
load of space

6. Dry Waste
Collection
Collection: Fix a bin on the
cupboard door of your sink. Use
this to collect your
Dry Waste
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* Do not use thin polythene bags to store Dry Waste at your home
Plastic woven bags or cloth bags are sturdy and reu sable
Collection: Collect
Dry Waste
in bag* hung in your kitchen or
utility area.
Collection: Rinse and dry milk
covers. Collect in a box to
dispose monthly to your local
scrap dealer

7. Dry Waste
Sorting@ Home
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Once a week sort dry waste collected in your bag in to
Plastic, Paper, Metal & Others. Dispose to common dry
waste collection (see next slide)
Best Practice: RWA to provide residents
with woven plastic bags labeled with house
no and sorting categories as per
requirement .
Please check with your Dry Waste collector
on categories of sorting required.
Apartments having adequate space and
labor can have a post collection sorting
established.

8. Dry Waste
Disposal
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Dry Waste Sorted into Plastic and Paper
Metal and glass are small amounts can be carried
together in the “Paper” bag and disposed into the
“Metal, Glass & Others” bin
In apartments weekly/fortnightly door-
to-door collection of sorted
Dry Waste
by housekeeping is a best practice
Plastic
50%
Paper
40%
Metal
5%
Glass
3%
Others
2%
Dry Waste Composition
(note: %ages are approx)
Bins at Common Collection Location
NOTE: Your
Dry waste
contains around 15 types of
plastic, paper, metal and glass. Sorting at home wi ll be really
helpful to make the post-collection sorting that mu ch easier

9. Dry Waste
Recycling
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Kartavya, Dry Waste Collection Center, Domlur
Weekly collection by nearest
Dry Waste Collection Center (DWCC)
Refer attached
list of DWCC
Bangalore Dry 
Waste Collection Centers
Call BBMP Control Room to locate your nearest DWCC
080-2266-0000

10. Reduce your
Dry Waste
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Your resource directory for ways to reduce/upcycle/recycle y our waste
Thunk India: Buy upcycled items made from hard to recycle Dry Waste
http://www.thunkinindia.com/ Reduce – Practical Guide http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/reduce.html Recycle, eh! : Practical tips to reduce, reuse and repurpose … http://www.recycle-eh.com/tips.htm Donate old clothes, blankets, bedsheets, books , stationery, and othe r useful items
In Bangalore
RK Foundation:
080-6559 4809;
[email protected]
;
www.rkfoundation.org
Sri Rakum School
: 080-25215253;
[email protected]
;
www.rakum.org
Goonj: Mr. Chandan
; 9663798026 ;
[email protected]
;
Sell Old Furniture and other stuff
Quikr:
http://www.quikr.com
Ebay:
http://www.ebay.in/

11. Happy Segregation,
and Recycling!
more solutions and ideas
http://www.slideshare.net/ragpickerify/
http://www.youtube.com/user/ragpickerify
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