[Reader-list] Nayandahalli Godowns Send 10.94 Percent of Bangalore's Dry Waste for Recycling

[Kabir Khan]

*Nayandahalli Godowns Send 10.94 Percent of Bangalore’s Dry Waste for
Recycling*
<http://wastenarratives.com/2015/10/08/nayandahalli-godowns-send-10-94-percent-of-bangalores-dry-waste-for-recycling/>

*Notes from Nayandahalli*

*Kabir Arora*

*“The more highly developed waste recycling becomes, the more valuable is
this very diversity of materials. The aim must be to get all the waste
possible into the system- not only those that are already valuable at a
given stage of development, but also those that are only beginning to
become useful and those that are not useful but may become so.*

*A type of work that doesn’t now exist, if thus necessary: services that
collects all waste, not for shunting into incinerators, gulches, but for
distributing to various primary specialists from whom the material will go
to convertors or reusers.”- *The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs.

The book ‘The Economy of cities’ by Jane Jacobs was first published in
1969. The vision which Jacobs proposed is becoming our day to day reality.
Recycling is not a niche sector anymore, it is huge and employs thousands,
but sadly, it is still an informal vocation. We have laws and policies for
mining and manufacturing, but not for recycling. Mining, manufacturing and
recycling are interlinked. Recycling reduces the demand for mining, it
provides resources for manufacturing. Recycling plays an important role,
but as has been shared in past there is absence of norms for pursuing the
case of recycling.

We in Hasiru Dala decided to learn more about informal waste markets and
with that began our journey in recycling hub of Bangalore. We desire to
expand the ideas envisioned by great urbanist Jane Jacobs.

Our lessons in the ongoing process of learning about recycling hub became
the series ‘Notes from Nayandahalli. Continuing with where we left in the
last post, in this post we will look at the scale, source and categories of
waste being sent for recycling in Nayandahalli by the urban nomads.

A large chunk of waste in Nayandahalli is being sourced from scrap dealers.
Who are scrap dealers? Scrap dealers are small shop owners based in
different localities of Bangalore, who buy unsorted waste in bulk from
wastepickers, and sell it to godown owners/recyclers with a marginal profit
for themselves.

There are itinerant buyers in the city, they are also called *kabbadiwallas*,
and you must have seen them moving around the city on their bicycles. They
supply specific categories of waste i.e. newspapers, glass or pet bottles
etc. either directly to the godown owners or sell it to scrap dealers.
Itinerant buyers source the waste from households across the city at a
nominal price paid. After deducting their margins and purchasing cost, sell
it to godown owners or scrap dealers. Continued here...
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