Help Laxmi and help us fight Plastic Pollution
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Waste pickers like Laxmi in Pune are hit extremely hard by the COVID pandemic and they need all the help they can get to beat the impact of it. To help them we are building a plastic recycling company in Pune and we need your help to do it.
We will help the waste pickers by buying the recyclable plastic directly from them and not from the middlemen and women. Secondly we will collaborate with organizations which help Waste Pickers improve their social and economic position AND will share our profits with them.
We already collaborate with the United Nations Development Program Circular Economy www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/projects/plastic-waste-management.html and various other waste picker organizations like Swach Coop www.swachcoop.comin Pune and in Mumbai the Aasra Foundation.
By building the plant we will:
1. Help improve the lives of Laxmi, her Waste Picker friends and their children,
2. Reduce the level of plastic pollution
3. Prevent animals from ingesting plastic.
Hello, my name is Patrick Franssen and I am a Dutch expat living and working in Pune, India. I initiated Swach BaPRe together with 5 other people.
Swach means clean, Bapre is an exclamation meaning: “oh wow”; BaPRe also stands for Bharat Plastic Recycling. (Bharat is Sanskrit for India)
Compassionate Capitalism
Management of Swach BaPRe is based on the premise that:
1. we must help waste pickers help improve the quality of their lives. With one recycling plant we can help approximately 3.500 people improve the quality of their lives.
2. We must be compassionate towards Mother Nature and all the creatures which are part of her.
Why do we need your donations?
We need your help to take the next necessary step to reach our goal of building the plant which is to have our recycled plastic tested to proof it meets and exceeds the criteria set by a.o. Unilever for recycled plastic.
Proving this will result in signing off take agreements for our recycled plastic with Unilever India and several other companies. This in turn will result in our external investors putting up the funds we need to build and operate the plant.
No testing means no off take agreement which means no external investor which means no Swach BaPRe which means no help for Laxmi and her friends nor for Mother Nature.
Who pays for what in the testing process?
The manufacturers of the machines will pay for processing the test batches. We have to pay for buying the plastic which will be recycled, transportation to and from Italy and cost of the tests of the recycled plastic.
The manufacturer of a crucial machine in the recycling process is located in Italy. The processing of the test batches will be done on site at the location of the manufacturer of the machine. Hence the shipping to and from Italy.
How much do we need?
In total we need € 40.000 (US$ 44.800) by the end of the 1st quarter of 2021. If we don’t reach our minimum target we will donate the money we did collect to Waste Picker organizations.
Donations
Please donate what you can or want, it being $ 10 or $ 1,000, all donations are welcome and everything helps us to achieve our goals.
If you don’t want or can't donate any money but, like our initiative, do share our initiative on your Social Media and help us that way to improve the lives of Laxmi, her colleagues and families.
Thank you!
A great big thank you from us, Laxmi and her family as well as the hundreds of other families you help support with your donation or by you sharing our crowdfunding initiative!
More Information about Swach BaPRe
Waste pickers like Laxmi suffer terribly from the impact of the Corona pandemic. For months they were not allowed to go out on the street to collect the plastic they usually sell which provides them with their daily income of INR 270 - 360 which is € 3 - € 4 ( $ 3.36 - $ 4.48).
Not being able to work means no income in India.
Living, packed like sardines in a can, in slums the lives of families like Laxmi's are under normal circumstances already very hard. Now their lives are even harder because of COVID-19 which rages like a wildfire in slums.
Plastic Pollution, Dengue and Malaria
A side effect of Laxmi and her waste pickers friends not being allowed to collect plastics from the streets is that the plastic pollution problem is getting bigger and bigger. Resulting in more and more animals ingesting it which causes tremendous suffering for the animals often leading to a slow and painful death.
Standing water in plastic is also a perfect incubator for mosquitos who can transmit potentially deadly diseases like Dengue and Malaria. Something we unfortunately personally experienced resulting in 9 days in an ICU out of which 6 critical.
The recycling plant will be able to handle 30.000 kilo (66,000 pounds) of plastic per day. We have plans to open a total of 20 such plants in India. Average capacity will be 40.000 kg (88k pounds) per day. Which means total recycling capacity will be around 800.000 kg (1.760.000 us pounds) of waste plastic per day. That is equivalent to an Olympic sized swimming pool full of recycled plastic.
Plastic recycling
We know very well that even recycled plastic is not ideal. Best would be a complete ban of the material. Unfortunately for now this is not a realistic goal particularly in countries such as India.
Thank you for your time,
we will keep you posted on our progress,
Patrick
We will help the waste pickers by buying the recyclable plastic directly from them and not from the middlemen and women. Secondly we will collaborate with organizations which help Waste Pickers improve their social and economic position AND will share our profits with them.
We already collaborate with the United Nations Development Program Circular Economy www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/projects/plastic-waste-management.html and various other waste picker organizations like Swach Coop www.swachcoop.comin Pune and in Mumbai the Aasra Foundation.
By building the plant we will:
1. Help improve the lives of Laxmi, her Waste Picker friends and their children,
2. Reduce the level of plastic pollution
3. Prevent animals from ingesting plastic.
Hello, my name is Patrick Franssen and I am a Dutch expat living and working in Pune, India. I initiated Swach BaPRe together with 5 other people.
Swach means clean, Bapre is an exclamation meaning: “oh wow”; BaPRe also stands for Bharat Plastic Recycling. (Bharat is Sanskrit for India)
Compassionate Capitalism
Management of Swach BaPRe is based on the premise that:
1. we must help waste pickers help improve the quality of their lives. With one recycling plant we can help approximately 3.500 people improve the quality of their lives.
2. We must be compassionate towards Mother Nature and all the creatures which are part of her.
Why do we need your donations?
We need your help to take the next necessary step to reach our goal of building the plant which is to have our recycled plastic tested to proof it meets and exceeds the criteria set by a.o. Unilever for recycled plastic.
Proving this will result in signing off take agreements for our recycled plastic with Unilever India and several other companies. This in turn will result in our external investors putting up the funds we need to build and operate the plant.
No testing means no off take agreement which means no external investor which means no Swach BaPRe which means no help for Laxmi and her friends nor for Mother Nature.
Who pays for what in the testing process?
The manufacturers of the machines will pay for processing the test batches. We have to pay for buying the plastic which will be recycled, transportation to and from Italy and cost of the tests of the recycled plastic.
The manufacturer of a crucial machine in the recycling process is located in Italy. The processing of the test batches will be done on site at the location of the manufacturer of the machine. Hence the shipping to and from Italy.
How much do we need?
In total we need € 40.000 (US$ 44.800) by the end of the 1st quarter of 2021. If we don’t reach our minimum target we will donate the money we did collect to Waste Picker organizations.
Donations
Please donate what you can or want, it being $ 10 or $ 1,000, all donations are welcome and everything helps us to achieve our goals.
If you don’t want or can't donate any money but, like our initiative, do share our initiative on your Social Media and help us that way to improve the lives of Laxmi, her colleagues and families.
Thank you!
A great big thank you from us, Laxmi and her family as well as the hundreds of other families you help support with your donation or by you sharing our crowdfunding initiative!
More Information about Swach BaPReWaste pickers like Laxmi suffer terribly from the impact of the Corona pandemic. For months they were not allowed to go out on the street to collect the plastic they usually sell which provides them with their daily income of INR 270 - 360 which is € 3 - € 4 ( $ 3.36 - $ 4.48).
Not being able to work means no income in India.
Living, packed like sardines in a can, in slums the lives of families like Laxmi's are under normal circumstances already very hard. Now their lives are even harder because of COVID-19 which rages like a wildfire in slums.
Plastic Pollution, Dengue and MalariaA side effect of Laxmi and her waste pickers friends not being allowed to collect plastics from the streets is that the plastic pollution problem is getting bigger and bigger. Resulting in more and more animals ingesting it which causes tremendous suffering for the animals often leading to a slow and painful death.
Standing water in plastic is also a perfect incubator for mosquitos who can transmit potentially deadly diseases like Dengue and Malaria. Something we unfortunately personally experienced resulting in 9 days in an ICU out of which 6 critical.
The recycling plant will be able to handle 30.000 kilo (66,000 pounds) of plastic per day. We have plans to open a total of 20 such plants in India. Average capacity will be 40.000 kg (88k pounds) per day. Which means total recycling capacity will be around 800.000 kg (1.760.000 us pounds) of waste plastic per day. That is equivalent to an Olympic sized swimming pool full of recycled plastic.Plastic recyclingWe know very well that even recycled plastic is not ideal. Best would be a complete ban of the material. Unfortunately for now this is not a realistic goal particularly in countries such as India.
Thank you for your time,
we will keep you posted on our progress,
Patrick
Fundraising team: Treat Yoga Caro (2)
Patrick Franssen
Organizer
Maastricht, NL
Caro Cuypers
Team member