Recycling what the world throws away
Recycling what the world throws away
Mandi Gobindgarh (Punjab) / New Delhi: Ranveer Jaidka takes pride in his work. “There is a little bit of steel in everybody’s life," he says, smilingly appropriating the tag line of an advertisement.
Skipping gingerly across a blackened factory floor, strewn with practically every sort of scrap from spent shock absorbers and refrigerator doors to crank shafts and bent cycle rims, he proclaims that nothing is waste. Jaidka’s factory in Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab, is one of the 150-odd factories that recycle metal scrap from around the world.
Click here to read a blog post by Mint’s senior news editor Nabeel Mohideen on Mint’s decision to run a series on waste.
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