Hariyo Makha project

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Hariyo Makha is a small socio-environmental project dedicated to Mother Nature. It was started in 2015 from a place called Makha in the beautiful hills of Sikkim. It is a type of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan that works on the areas of solid waste management, proper resource utilisation & sustainable development. There are 10 initiatives under this project most of which generate revenues. Two of its ideas “Plastic Upcycling Initiative” and “Clean Paper Initiative” are submitted in this report.

These initiatives have the potential of earning minor revenues that are completely utilised in helping needy and drop-out students in getting admission to NIOS and IGNOU. I feel humbled to inform that until now 16 students (7 male, 9 female) have been helped in their education. Out of these 1 has completed Masters’ Degree, 3 are about to be graduates, and 3 have passed class 12.

The multi-layered plastic covers of eatables like Lays and Kurkure are not collected by rag-pickers as they do not provide any financial motivation to them. Thus they tend to get accumulated into landfills causing problems in soil and water pollution. The Plastic Upcycling initiative works on the idea of upcycling such plastics into book covers.

It has become a common trend to utilise only one side of A4 paper. This creates a lot of paper wastes that are mostly discarded without completely being used. The Clean Paper initiative works on the idea of upcyling these pages into notebooks.

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