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Madurai railway junction gets its second waste shredding machine

he second waste shredding machine, a contraption facility in Madurai, W2W has tied up with Tirunelveli,
Tthat helps in recycling used plastic bottles, was Dindigul and Coimbatore Corporations and has set up 12
inaugurated at Madurai railway junction on Tuesday. such units across Tamil Nadu. “In this day and age, it is
impossible to get rid of PET bottles which accumulate
in large quantities. They only end up filling up landfills.
This machine would discard bottles with liquids and will
reject materials such as metals,” she said. She added
that the pet bottles can be made into fibre and even be
used for fuel generation. Apart from such a facility in
Madurai, W2W has tied up with Tirunelveli, Dindigul and
Coimbatore Corporations and has set up 12 such units
across Tamil Nadu.Senior officials from J. K. Fenner, who
sponsored the machine, including Vice President- Supply
Chain Management, M. Saravana Marthandam, Assistant
The machine, which was set up by W2W Enterprise, an Vice President- Operations, P. G. S. Dinesh Davidson, and
organisation looking to create a sustainable future for the others participated in the inauguration. Station Manager
city, will be able to hold 3,000 bottles, according to its Sachin Kumar launched the machine. All passengers on
founder A. Dhanalakshmi. The bottles would be cleared the platform were encouraged to use the facility as it
and given to plastic manufacturers. Apart from such a is located close to the waiting room on Platform No. 1.

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