Long-term support for the environment, society and the economy
With the establishment of a recycling company as part of the Fair Recycled Plastic initiative, the Melitta Group is focusing on a social business model in an Indian metropolis. The company takes a holistic approach: it actively contributes to reducing environmental and marine plastic, improves the living and working conditions of waste pickers and promotes sustainable social change locally.
Plastic pollution of the environment and oceans is a global problem that urgently needs solutions. In the Indian metropolis of Bangalore, for example, about 3,500 tons of waste end up on the roadside or in illegal landfills every day. There is a lack of comprehensive, state disposal.
This is not only a problem for the environment, but also affects the lives of many people. An estimated 15,000 women and men in Bangalore work as so-called waste pickers and collect waste in the mountains of garbage, usually without protective equipment, which they can resell.
With the Fair Recycled Plastic initiative, the Melitta Group has founded a new recycling company in the Indian metropolis. This is not only intended to avoid environmental and marine plastic, but also to help waste pickers and bring about social change.
