Plastic
Beach Clean Up, Mumbai (2018)
In 2018 Bija Organization arranged two beach clean-up’s together with Empower and Sunflower Welfare Foundation. We cleared 2200 kilos of plastic and more than 5 tons of waste all together.
Empower develops a global and digital mortgage system for plastic. The purpose is to put a value on plastic to remove plastic waste from beaches, seas and other unsuitable places. The cleaners are paid per kilo through the use of block-chain technology, providing a basic wage for the poor people we engage in collecting plastic.
Visit by Norwegian Minister for International Development
Also Norwegian Minister for International Development (now Minister of Digitilisation), Nikolai Astrup, visited the site to educate himself about the project. He applauds the effort and the project that Bija Organization arranged
Read the Facebook Article of the Royal Norwegian Consulate General Mumbai.
When we engage the underprivileged to assist cleaning the beach, we make sure they are payed a decent salary. In this project the workers were payed a solid 1 US Dollar per KG of plastic, from Empower’s plastic fund, securing more than double the average day rate.
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By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
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By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
