1. Segregated waste – basic gyan
Classification, sale prices, how each is recycled or reused
Sale prices for various items
Item Price, Rs. / kg. Remarks
Bought by small scrap dealers
Paper
White paper 8
Newspaper English 7
Newspaper Others 6
Cardboard carton 6
Magazines 4
Glass
Glass liquor bottles (other than beer) 1
Glass beer bottles 2 Per bottle
Small glass bottles and broken glass 0.5
Plastic
Bottles 10
Milk sachets 14
Shopping bags 3
Transparent covers with printing on them 3
Transparent covers without printing 10
Thick plastic pieces (buckets, etc.) 15
Metal
Metal pieces 13
Soft drink cans 30
Others
Footwear 3
Bought by ITC
Miscellaneous thin plastic 3
Miscellaneous paper 2

2. What is what, and goes where
Data on 'what goes where' is mostly not available now, will be updated as more gyan comes in.
This is what a scrap dealer's shop looks like. Old
plastic bottles and jerry cans are hung outside to
identify the shop as a scrap dealer. You'll find such
shops in all localities.
This shop is in RT Nagar.
Owner : Mr. Kannan. 9986169198 / 9886479520
Small (non-beer) liquor bottles.
Caps taken off, rest of the bottle goes back to firm
that makes the liquor, washed, refilled, used again.
White paper

3. Plastic bottles
Thick plastic pieces
Miscellaneous thin plastic

4. Miscellaneous paper
Soft drink cans
Cardboard cartons