Keeling Curve

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This project aims to increase awareness about proper waste disposal practice and engage citizens in the process as an important stakeholder. The aim is to build a supply chain that ensure proper recycling of waste with a transparency and access to waste data, and eliminating child labour and exploitation of marginalized communities. 

This project was formed because we wanted to implement source segregation of waste and evaluate various waste stream as a raw material to ways to recycling that are more energy efficient. The goal is to work with FMCGS on EPR principals where the measures prove to be environmentally and financially stable. 

Trash on Wheelz service was founded in November 2019 and was focused around organic waste collection from restaurants but with COVID 19, we had to pause and re-evaluate the entire model. In 2021, we resumed the service with a focus on general business community and was pleased with the response on it.

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TrashIt collects, and upcycles source segregated organic waste to make nutrient rich compost for urban gardening. We also educate and empower communities to reach a zero waste to landfil goal.

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The team behind this project is women founded and youth dominant. The project is live in Karachi, a densely populated city in Pakistan. South Asia is the most vulnerable to global climate change.

The project aims to create multiple community ambassadors who will engage with the households to educate them, and will recruit informal scavenger for dignified work employment. The waste streams will be channeled to various modern recycling projects to create valuable product such as furniture line or lamps etc that can be brought back into the economy making it truly circular. 

Waste management sector in Pakistan is highly male dominant and inefficient in practice as incineration is still the most widely used method of disposal. The landfill sites are fully occupied and have an informal marginalized refugee community living in them. We aim to improve and uplift their livelihood by training them and engaging them in the workforce.

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