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COMMITTEE REPORT
to the land on which the segregation and
compaction happens. Our Team along with
the Environmental Committee visited them
and are currently ?nancing construction of
a Toilet block in the bandra west premises.
Following are a few pictures from the visit to
FORCE on July 12, 2016
• Sampurn(e)arth Services Pvt Ltd [SESPL]
• Versova Residents Volunteers (VRV): These
is a Venture Supported by DBS-TISS Social
Entrepreneurship Programme and Unltd.
India. They provide end-to-end decentralized
waste management
solutions for housing
societies, corporate
houses, townships, school
and college campuses,
etc. A decentralized
system saves considerable
Baling Machine transportation costs and
eliminates the related emissions.
SESPL has 3 go-downs in Mumbai, wherein they
collect, segregate and send the speci?c waste
to recyclers; their key challenge has been to
?nd recyclers of particular kinds of plastic
waste; AIPMA has been hearing them out and
helping them locate recyclers from the 25,000
odd associate members that AIPMA has!
Furthermore, when the
Juhu-Versova Residents
wanted someone to help
them collect the waste,
segregate and recycle the
same, AIPMA called upon
Sampurnearth to fill in
this gap. Following are
Baled PET Bottles pictures of their Chembur
Facility
• Juhu Walkers Citizens Club: One of the
in?uential groups, has a membership base of
over 200 citizens, they have been responsible
for the cleaning up and beauti?cation efforts
of the 4 odd kilometer stretch of the Juhu
Beach which starts near Versova and extends
upto Khar. Their issue now was that the waste
collected is currently going to the land?ll and
they would want to recycle as much of the
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waste as possible, this is when we connected
them to Sampurn(e)arth. Currently the main
issue facing the collection from the beach
is that about 50-60% of the waste by weight
is sand. Sampurn(e)arth along with our
support, coordination and facilitation will be
implementing a solution at the Juhu Beach in
due course of time.
Citizens come down to the Versova beach
every weekend without fail since the past 42
weekends under the leadership of Adv. Afroz
Shah, and physically clean up the beach! So
impressed was the UN Environmentalist and
“Patron of the Oceans”
Mr. Lewis Pugh, that he
will be coming down on
the 6th and 7th August
2016 to clean the beach
along with the citizens.
Some of the well known
dignitaries frequenting
the cleanliness weekends are: Mr. Subhash
Ghai, Mr. Anil Singh-Addl Solictor General
of India, Ms. Pooja Bhatt, Ms. Pooja Bedi,
Mr. Deepak Dobriyal, Mr. Irfan Khan, Mr
Balamwar - Deputy Municipal Commissioner,
Mr Acherkar - Deputy Municipal Commissioner,
Mr. Masurkar - Asst Municipal Commissioner.
The main issue facing the Versova Beach is
the fact that there are 12 nallas which feed
into the sea from the Versova Creek, the
water brings along lost of waste dumped
through the length of the water bodies into
the sea! The residents had managed to get
sieves put at the mouths of these nallas with
the help of the Corporation which were later
broken down owing to the clogging of these
and water over?owing from the nallas. There
are multiple approaches that will have to be
conducted to solve this issue – it is a mammoth
task, segregation of waste will have to be
made mandatory and the sieves will have
to be re-instated and cleaned/ replaced
once every fortnight. This will require policy
change and hence we at AIPMA are making a
presentation which we will jointly give to the