Plastic collection

As the country gears up for its annual festival of voluntary giving, DaanUtsav, a Mumbai non-profit is prepping to host what could arguably be India’s biggest Plastic Recyclothon.

While finding a substitute for a pesticide for sugarcane crop, he was working on some wax moth caterpillars and realised two things.

About 28 individuals from the community are directly involved in the process and make use of five trawlers to retrieve the plastic waste from the sea.