Celebrate Daan Utsav, the joy of giving week, this October with Project Mumbai's "The Mumbai Plastic Recyclothon".

Over the last few months, the pandemic has resulted in increased use of plastics. With home deliveries of groceries and essentials comes more plastic bags and packaging. Wondering what to do with the plastic packaging at home?

Project Mumbai’s Recyclothon is here to help you recycle your plastics into public use amenities, such as park benches and garbage bins. Not only will they send this for recycling to help protect our environment from plastic pollution, but they will also donate an equivalent weight of groceries to less privileged households.

So do collect the plastic waste from your home, work place and residential area, because for every kilo of plastic you donate, you not only help the planet but help share food with for those in need.

What can you Contribute?

You can contribute the below plastic materials:

• Wrappers
• Cans
• Bags
• Bottles
• Tetra pack
• Thermocool
• Any other type of plastic

Please clean the plastic and squeeze, crush, compress as much as possible. Keep the items for donation in a neatly stacked bag/carton ready for drop off.

Safety Measures

In the interest of health and safety for everyone involved - if your residence or building is sealed due to COVID-19, please do not sign up for this collection drive.

Things to Keep in Mind:

Once you click on the "Donate" button you will be redirected to Project Mumbai's registration form. This registration form contains important information on the drop off points, drop off dates and also helps Project Mumbai plan logistics more accurately.

Please note, the last date for registration is 25th September and the drop off dates are 2nd and 7th October. Drop off points and drop off timings are part of the registration form and are regularly updated by the Project Mumbai team.

Meet the Team

Project Mumbai, a not for profit organization, strives to identify challenges which people face, every day and find realistic solutions for the same. They aim to create a collaboration between People (the citizens), Public (The administration) and Private entities (Businesses) to make things work. Project Mumbai was conferred the United Nations SDG Solidarity Award for its humanitarian work during Covid-19.

The Mumbai Plastic Recyclothon, a unique and award-winning initiative started in 2018 and aims encourage the people of Mumbai (school children, young and old, corporate citizens, Housing societies, and Institutions) to reduce the consumption of harmful plastic. In the previous edition Project Mumbai collected over 2,800kgs of plastic from over 1.25 lakh people which was converted into 40 benches, 50 garbage bins and 3,500 pencil boxes.

Questions? Contact:

E-mail: info@projectmumbai.org

www.projectmumbai.org