Post-consumer pet bottle collection: a case study of recycling vending machine
Student name: Mr Manish Kumar
Guide: Dr Sapna Narula
Year of completion: 2016
Host Organisation: GEM Enviro Management, New Delhi
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Mr Paras Gupta
Abstract: India is one the densely populated country of the world. With the rapidly urbanizing demography, consumption pattern is changing. Within the household waste, most of these solid wastes are packages and containers. It has become a big problem in the recent years, since there is no more space for landfill, and the dioxin emission from incineration had made great harm to human health. Recycling rate is very low and littering problem still exists (CPCB, June, 2013). In order to reduce the amount of household waste, the research took Reverse Vending Machine (RVM) as a solution. Survey and literature review were used as research methodology of this project attempting to find out the most suitable scenario for RVM installation. The main objectives of the project are to analyse the political, economic, social and environmental and technological analysis of plastic waste management, to identify ten promising locations to install reverse vending machines and to persuade important stakeholders in the plastic waste management for their participation in plastic waste management. There are several points need to be took into consideration in this report, such as awareness creation and incentivising people for participation in bottle deposition in RVM. Detail will be explained in the following chapters, and here are some brief conclusions of this report RVM project relies on the supports from municipalities strongly, without the cooperation form Municipalities, RVM project may not run longer, beverage manufactures and recycling companies are interested in RVM installation.
Keywords: Reverse vending machine, recycling and solid waste.
