Babita’s lofty effort
A member of Self Help Group (SHG)-Jeevika, Babita is creatively reusing waste plastic into decorative items like artificial flower bouquets, clippings, pendants, pouches, purses and bags. By doing this, she not only promotes the reuse of waste plastic, but also reduces its negative impact on the environment. Everything was going well for Babita’s family. Suddenly her husband became disabled. The responsibility of the whole family fell on Babita. Seeing the family in financial trouble, Babita started something like her own startup. After that she joined Jeevika. However, after joining Jeevika, he started seeing improvement in his financial condition.
Babita is associated with Jeevika
Presently, she is attached with the Plastic Waste Management Unit (PWMU) set up at Sakra in Muzaffarpur district under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin). The plastic waste collected from all the gram panchayats of the block comes to this PWMU. Where Babita gets plastic as per her requirement. The district administration has set up a training facility at PWMU, Sakra. Where Babita conducts a workshop on making useful items from plastic waste. She goes door to door and invites women to learn this craft and earn money.
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Women’s confidence will increase
The national level award will boost the confidence of people who use waste as a ‘resource’ and source of income. Solid and Liquid Waste Management is being implemented under Lohia Swachh Bihar Abhiyan (LSBA)-Phase II to make villages ODF plus. Around 39,600 wards in the state are now working on solid waste management. Waste Processing Units (WPUs) have been created in 638 Gram Panchayats for effective solid waste disposal. A total of 16 plastic waste processing units have been constructed at the block level for proper disposal of plastic waste.
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