What’s the best you’ve ever got out of waste? In a unique step, a café will trade free food for plastic waste in the city of Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh.
The ‘garbage café’ is an initiative by the Municipal Corporation to provide a hearty meal to the homeless and the poor while incentivising garbage collection and cleanliness.
The café gives you a free meal for every kilo of garbage collected, and a substantial breakfast/snack for every 500 grams of trash deposited.
What makes the garbage café in Ambikapur special is its plan to use all the waste collected to build roads in the city.
Ambikapur, which is the second-cleanest city in India after Indore, already has one such road, which was constructed with 8 lakh plastic bags and asphalt, the report said.
The Municipal Corporation even plans to expand the scheme, providing free shelter to the homeless in exchange for garbage.
Read more of this in a report published in moneycontrol.com... (link given below)
