Akshar Recycling Centre of
Solid Waste Launched at Pamohi

GUWAHATI, 29 May 2018: In a bid to maintain
ecological balance, the Akshar School for the
underprivileged today launched a recycle centre of solid
waste at Pamohi, Guwahati. The installation of the plant
has been supported by ERD Foundation, Guwahati and it
has been inaugurated today by Mahbubul Hoque, the
Chairman of ERD Foundation. Dr Alaka Sarma, Founder of
Akshar Foundation and Parmita Nagen Sarma, Co-Founder &
Associate Director of Akshar were present in the
inauguration, apart from school children and community
people of the neighbouring area.
“Akshar Forum is sensitive to the imbalances in the
ecology. In this part of India, burning trash is kind of
established practice. Even in higher middle class,
educated neighbourhood, one comes across the dry trash
being burnt, along with leaves and twigs, even plastic
cups and polythene bags are also put to flame. The
result is devastating. In our own city of Guwahati, we
cannot see blue sky due to haze. The smoke so generated
is harmful to the human body too. Its effect is like
smoking 40 cigarettes a day, without taking a single
puff”, said M Hoque, Chairman of ERDF, as he was
addressing a gathering.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Alaka Sarma said, “The
community which with Akshar works has the habit of
burning trash. Our students being concerned about the
precious gift of mother nature called environment, are
deeply disturbed and as a result, we have come up with
the plan of recycling the plastic waste generated by the
community. The bio degradable waste can be disposed of
by the families in their own area”.
Akshar Foundation is a Guwahati based registered public
charitable trust engaged in poverty eradication through
operation of schools that supplement formal education
with vocational training, business incubation, and
community development. Earlier, Akshar signed an MOU
with ERDF where ERDF promised to support Akshar to
launch its Recycling Centre, which shall consist of a
collection service for dry waste in the communities
served by the Akshar School, as well as a low-tech
processing facility on the campus of Akshar School for
sorting and reusing solid waste.
As per the MOU, ERDF shall facilitate in setting up an
infrastructure to enable social enterprises associated
with Akshar to sell food products and handmade products
within USTM campus. The infrastructure will include,
facility for hosting food carts and stalls for crafts
and packaged food products on the UTSM campus; a space
for storage of supplies, permission to operate gas
cylinder stove, and access to a power outlet within the
UTSM campus; and provision for an indoor space for
stalls to operate with access to electric outlets and
gas cylinder inside the UTSM campus. |