According to sources a team of 17 B.Tech students at IIT Delhi have intiated a unique project. They are collecting waste paper and cartons from resident welfare associations (RWA) and houses in south Delhi as well as companies in Gurgaon and Noida to get them recycled into notebooks for village school kids.
So far, they have distributed more than 800 recycled paper notebooks.
The process used in this project is very simple, students join RWAs and request people to drop their waste paper at the local community centre; the companies deposit waste paper at IIT. The students collect the paper and give it to a recycling company in Rajouri Garden which gives them recycled paper notebooks in exchange. “The firm doesn’t take any money. We supply it about 1,000kg of waste paper, which would fetch Rs 12,000. It gives us about 700 notebooks after keeping a small margin,” said Kushagra Srivastava, one of the students.
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