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From
Waste to Wealth ?
On
29 March 2016 , the Environ Ministry ( Central Government ) notified ,
"
The Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules "
On
this occasion , environment minister , Shri
Javadekar said :
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It is an initiative to tackle effectively the issue of pollution. Without any
rules, it is dumped in open spaces , drains, rivers, forest areas, landfills
and roadside
The
basis of our new rules is recover , recycle and
reuse
We
can make tiles , pipes from it
Segregating
construction and demolition waste and depositing it to the collection centres
for processing will now be the responsibility of every waste generator
"
Dear Shri Javadekarji :
Your
initiative to reuse construction / demolition waste has the potential to solve
the problem of constructing 50 million " affordable homes " by 2020
And
, I think , the Chinese firm WinSun Design
Decoration Company, should be made an EQUITY partner in a SPV to
construct these homes
Here
is why :
# On
29 March 2014 , WinSun constructed 10 , 3D
printed houses ( 200 sq meter each) in
Shanghai, each costing $ 4,800 (approx Rs 3
lakh)
# On 17
July 2015 , using its 3D printing technology , WinSun built a 2 storey villa ,
in just 3 HOURS !
# WinSun
holds 98 patents for CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
# For 3D printing of houses , WinSun , mostly uses recycled
construction materials
# 3D HOUSE
PRINTING TECHNOLOGY saves :
* 30% -60 % of building materials
* 70 % of production time
* 80 % of construction cost
# Egypt
Government has placed on WinSun , an order for supplying 20,000 pre-fabricated
, 3D printed houses
# In Egypt ,
WinSun will establish 12 Dream Factories
( to build pre-fabricated houses ) , within 2 years
These factories will mostly use DESERT
SAND as its main construction material , which was found ideal for
3D printing of houses
# In next 3 years
, WinSun will set up ( in JV with local parties ) , similar factories in 20 countries , including Saudi Arabia , UAE ,
Qatar , Mexico , S. Korea , Russia , Morocco , Tunisia , and USA
With the current slowdown in
economies around the world and in the Chinese economy in particular , I think
WinSun should be more than happy to invest in India
What
Fox Conn is doing to transform the Electronic Industry in India , I believe ,
WinSun can do for the Construction Industry
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Monday, 21 March 2016
Discourage
Plastics : Encourage Greed
Two days back, the Centre
notified stringent plastic waste management rules to regulate use of the
hazardous material and handle the waste generated by it
These include :
* Banning of plastic
bags of less than 50 micron thickness
* Manufacturing / use
of non-recyclable multi-layered plastic to be phased out in 2 years
* Manufacturers of
products using plastic wrapping materials will have to pay prescribed
fees to
States. Collected funds will be disbursed among civic bodies and gram
panchayats
for taking
measures to dispose off plastic waste
No doubt , such measures were
long overdue and must be welcomed , although I have serious doubts whether our
corrupt bureaucracy will strictly enforce these or use these as one more means
to extort bribes from manufacturers / retailers / users !
SOME BACKGROUND
STATISTICS :
* India generates
15,000 tons of plastic waste everyday
* 6,000 tons remain
uncollected and get disposed off in hazardous manner
* There are approx
8,000 plastic recycling units ( half of them , unregistered )
MISSING ELEMENT :
Abolish
Corporate Income Tax for all plastic recycling units for next 10 years !
Let GREED take over
GOVERNING !
WHAT CAN WE
EXPECT ?
* Within
a year , another 10,000 plastic recycling units will come up
* 100 %
of plastic produced will get recycled
* These units
will mobilize lakhs of " Plastic Rag Pickers " to collect every
small scrap of
plastic
from every nook and corner of every street in every city, leading to Swatchh
Bharat and self employment !
* Recycled
plastic will get used to build strong / long-lasting road surfaces
* Some recycled
plastic will be used as raw material for mass-producing of 3D printed
houses , solving problem of 50 million " Affordable Housing " (ask WINSUN of Shanghai )
(
This is the kind of innovations expected from our National Science Laboratories
)
WHERE ELSE CAN
WE TRY THIS ?
* Abolish
Corporate Income Tax ( for 10 years ) for all plants / units , producing
Methane
Gas
using organic waste from household / hotels / restaurants
* All
municipalities and gram panchayats to allow such privately-owned Organic Waste
Processing / Gas Producing units to collect such waste from all the streets ,
free of cost
* Municipalities
will save hundreds of crores of rupees in Garbage Collection
* State
Electricity Boards will set up Gas based Power Plants , next to these units and
buy
the
gas for power generation
If this suggestion is
implemented , we would have SWATCHH BHARAT in 2 years
And , we would have harnessed
human GREED ( viz: avoid income tax ) of our Start Ups to solve the problem
of pollution
No more fires in Deonar
dumping ground !
I hope Shri Prakash
Javadekar-ji is listening
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22 March 2016
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hemen
parekh
Marol
, Mumbai , India
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