AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Home
GOALS
Gender Equality, Decent Work & Economic Growth, Sustainable Cities & Communities, Responsible Consumption & Production, Innovative Financial System
KEYWORDS
circular economy, social inclusion , Limit plastic waste, low income communities , women entrepreneurs
COUNTRY
India
DESIGNED BY
Skilled Samaritan Foundation
WEBSITE
https://skilledsamaritan.com/
wastetowow
Our design generates income for women from minority groups, while addressing issues of waste plastic
SSF aims to revive weaving styles of India's most functional piece of furniture, the 'charpoy', by using skill-sets of women from rural communities, fused with modern design to make designer-sustainable products.
Our production includes a supply chain of local textile/food packaging units that send us their excess cloth and industrial plastic waste, which is converted into usable and colourful ropes. These ropes are made using the mechanism of Gandhi's spinning wheel, where we have 'invented' a simple indigenous machinery at village level using simple mechanics, which is operated by our women to twine long shreds of cloth strips into usable bright ropes. Our ropes are bright, tensile with physical properties of plastic with bright colour of blue of Oreo Biscuits, Purple of Dair Milk chocolates etc, making our products uniquely different in the market as well as strongly circular in nature.