Meet Angel Imdad who is expert in recycling waste

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00:00 Kachra, don't make it dirty.

00:02 It's being used all over the world.

00:04 We saw in Lahore, a company has been given a contract to produce electricity.

00:09 Kachra is produced in Karachi by more than 12,000 tonnes, if I'm not mistaken.

00:14 And there was a time, 2-3 years ago, when politics was revolving around Kachra.

00:20 Everyone was saying that they have to take responsibility.

00:22 I have to take responsibility.

00:23 They were running away from the responsibility.

00:25 Who took the responsibility? No one?

00:27 I remember, the director was appointed, Mustafa Kamal.

00:31 Machines came from China, I don't know where they went.

00:33 The problem is that where do we dump the Kachra that is being produced?

00:37 Because the more we go out of the city, the more fuel we need.

00:40 So this problem, the city's drains are clogged with Kachra.

00:44 So this problem cannot be solved.

00:46 In such a situation, we have such guests who make Kachra a remedy.

00:51 And they also give awareness to others to face Kachra.

00:55 If we try to make Kachra a remedy, even by 30%,

01:02 then it can be much better in terms of cleanliness.

01:05 So, Angel Imdad is his name.

01:08 And he is with his team, recycling Kachra in Karachi to solve this problem.

01:13 Along with that, he is also helping to put the waste in the right places.

01:17 And of course, we will ask him how and what can be done.

01:20 How can Kachra be made a remedy?

01:22 Angel Imdad is with us. Good morning, Angel. How are you?

01:25 Good morning. I am good. How are you?

01:27 I am fine.

01:28 So, tell us a little bit about how you got this idea, what your team does,

01:34 and how big a scale this work is being done.

01:36 Right. So, my name is Angel Imdad.

01:39 And Irvirde is the name of our company. It means Go Green.

01:43 I am an environmentalist by profession.

01:46 So, this whole work was my thesis research in my MPhil.

01:50 So, I thought why not use the hard work I have done for society.

01:55 We should use it for practical purposes.

01:56 Exactly.

01:57 And definitely, as everyone knows, the waste business is very profitable.

02:03 Everyone can see it. It is equally difficult.

02:05 But how can we make it valuable?

02:08 So, this was our whole concept.

02:10 We started with the idea that the biggest problem is awareness.

02:14 Even if we put bins, color-coded bins, people don't know what to throw in them.

02:20 And even if we throw it, even if we write on it, they don't know what will be the benefit of doing this.

02:25 So, we focus on that.

02:26 We empower the schools and institutions so that children know why environmental conservation is important.

02:35 Why are we segregating the garbage, the wet garbage, the dry garbage?

02:40 What will be the benefit of doing this?

02:42 The benefit is that when we separate, our concept, Ayurveda does this,

02:49 that at least you separate dry garbage and wet garbage.

02:54 Why?

02:55 Because dry garbage gets spoiled when it is mixed with dry garbage.

02:59 It gets spoiled because microorganisms start their activities in wet garbage.

03:04 Because of that, they make dry garbage completely wet and do so much that it cannot be recycled.

03:10 Even if it is recycled, a lot of cost is involved,

03:14 because of which we see so many shoppers and different things on the roads.

03:20 Now that we have separated them, what is the biggest benefit?

03:24 Obviously, dry garbage, so what can be done with it?

03:27 Okay, so the benefit is those things that we don't see on the road,

03:31 which all our local pickers pick up, scavengers, we normally call it in our language.

03:39 So, they pick up bottles, tins, paper, and all that, and we have shopping bags left behind.

03:46 Those who have less weight, they have a problem in recycling.

03:51 So, our job here is that we have a very big role in recycling shopping bags.

03:57 All our clients, like Mr. Khan, there is a restaurant on the highway,

04:01 he is a very big client of ours and he has been with us since the start.

04:04 He has plastic bags, shopping bags, so all that comes to us.

04:10 We have a whole washing line, we wash it further and then we send it for recycling.

04:15 For recycling, we have different plastic recyclers and people like this are coming with a lot of initiatives,

04:22 where bricks are being made and some plastic bricks are being made.

04:25 Recently Shell has made a whole road, but it is very important to learn here

04:30 that not everything can be done with every plastic.

04:33 There are different types of plastic.

04:35 So, every plastic has a different value, goes in different money, and can do a different job.

04:40 So, who do you get help from?

04:43 In the local, in the street neighborhoods, in Karachi,

04:47 children are working there and they are collecting garbage from the house.

04:52 They are given a nominal amount and then they collect a lot in it.

04:56 So, you contact them, how do you do these things?

05:00 At the moment, our team is working, our own laborers, our own pickers, pickup drivers, all of them are working.

05:08 But yes, because there is a very large number who normally work on Mafia Beast,

05:15 and different local pickers are working, in which a lot of children come.

05:19 We are working on this so that we can bring them on board,

05:23 we can give them better wages, which are better for them,

05:27 we can provide them with health safety, because in this,

05:30 a very big job is being done, that is, health care waste is being mixed on our normal roads.

05:35 Our work starts from here.

05:37 Now, the pickers sometimes get syringes, sometimes they get something made of glass,

05:41 drip sets are available there.

05:43 So, by doing this pickup, they are impacting, they are also getting diseases,

05:47 which are converted into long-term cancer and HIV.

05:51 Secondly, by picking this hazardous waste, this is also being sold in the future,

05:55 which is recycled and used to make cutleries and toys for children.

05:59 So, we are utilizing that.

06:01 The basic purpose of recycling is to improve our environment,

06:06 to better dispose of waste.

06:08 There is a lot of waste in Karachi.

06:10 So, how much waste are you disposing of and improving the environment?

06:17 So, if I talk about it now, Karachi is very big.

06:20 Of course, we can't do all this alone.

06:23 So, if I talk about the waste of Karachi,

06:26 16,500 tons of waste is generated every day.

06:30 So, within that, of course, there is also a question of capacity.

06:33 And now, we have been working since 2019,

06:36 but still we need some help from the capacity and government.

06:41 Now, we are trying to manage approximately 2,000 to 2,000 tons.

06:48 But apart from that, we are trying to take 5,000 tons per day

06:54 so that we can create a big impact.

06:57 Here, it is very important that we talk about societies.

07:01 We want to work in societies.

07:03 And we are also talking about it.

07:05 So, we can empower the women, the homemakers,

07:08 because they are mainly disposing of waste.

07:10 And their job is to reuse a bottle.

07:14 So, we can empower them and tell them.

07:16 Then we can give training to the maids.

07:19 Why is it necessary to do this?

07:21 And in this way, awareness is also spread in the society.

07:23 And in return, we should pay them something

07:26 so that they can get economic benefits and empowerment.

07:30 Because when it comes to sustainability,

07:32 sustainability is directly proportional to empowerment of economies.

07:36 Absolutely.

07:37 Great.

07:38 Angel Indar, thank you so much.

07:39 And you are doing a great job.

07:41 I hope that their message is that

07:43 we should spread awareness in this way and grow.

07:46 So that we can improve our environment.

07:48 And the waste should be reduced.

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