March 2024

A day sorting textile waste at the Dry Waste Collection Center managed by Kumuda Ma

At the recently concluded Bharat Tex 2024 Global Expo, Ms Kumuda Ma was honoured and recognised as the "Most Inspiring Women Entrepreneur - Circular Textiles” by the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) at the CITI Textile Sustainability Awards 2024. The award was presented to her by Hon'ble Union Minister of Textiles, Commerce and Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Piyush Goyal in recognition of her yeoman service to segregate and save post consumer textile waste, the third largest waste material, ending up in the landfills.

Photos by: Vinod Sebastian

PHOTO STORY

The activity starts with the used / post consumer textile waste getting sorted by fabric type

After the sorting by material, the clothes are bagged as per fabric and move on to be segregated based on colour

Waiting their turn

Kumuda Ma at work, checking the material and colour coding it

A break we all need

Kumuda Ma uses this colour wheel as segregation guide

Atop the textile waste mountain. From the Ward 177 DWCC alone, 20 large bags of post consumer textile waste are processed by the women employees of the center

The weighing and accounting of the sorted textile waste

Sorted bags of clothes ready to sold

The team of Ward 177 Dry Waste Collection Center managing the post consumer textile waste

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