India's First Garbage cafe

India's First Garbage café

India's First Garbage restaurant "A distinctive & innovative way to build the cities plastic-free." 

Have you ever heard of garbage café?

Well if you haven't , then here is a brief about it.

India's first garbage restaurant is going to be launched in Chhattisgarh in few days. 

To understand about this.

Lets first know about Ambikapur. 

Ambikapur is a small town in Sarjuga district in Chhattisgarh with a population of 45 lakhs. The town generates forty five metric tonnes of solid waste per day. But there's one thing that makes this town special & distinctive.

This town has become popular because it is the second cleanest town after Indore. Further, the town plans to use it's plastic waste for the development of roads. Ambikapur already has a road created with plastic granules and asphalt.

The first such road within the state has been created within the town by intermixture eight large integer plastic bags!! The road made by intermixture plastic and asphalt is sturdy, as a result the water will permeate through it. 

In this distinctive restaurant ,poor folks & rag pickers can get free food in exchange of one kilo of plastic, whereas breakfast are going to be provided for the exchange 1/2 kilo of plastic.

Moreover,this is an innovative idea to produce free food & shelter to the homeless rag pickers. This garbage restaurant is going to be operated from the city's main bus stand.

The government can offer Rs five lakhs for the garbage restaurant idea .As this is additionally being joined to the cleanliness campaign therefore, the garbage restaurant idea is going to be enforced strictly within the town. 

It is a smart way to examine that Ambikapur has created prodigious progress from last year's fortieth rank to mark its emphatic presence because the high civic administered city in solid waste management. 

The city built a road made entirely of plastic in 2015, India’s first and earns 1.2 million rupees ($17,400) a month selling plastic and recycled paper to private companies.

This city has no open dumping sites. In fact, the city had converted a massive 15-acre landfill into a ‘Sanitation Awareness Park’ marked by trees and ponds in May 2016.

 In recent years, the city has become a model for sanitation schemes. All 48 wards of Ambikapur are dustbin-free. The city has an efficient solid waste management system that runs on 18 segregation centres, where dry and wet garbage are separated and sent to a processing centre. This was earlier a dump site but now boasts a 14-acre botanical garden. 

Such ‘rubbish’ cafes are already operateing in  some parts of the United States of America, Europe and even Asian country, and lots of areas round the world which are even fully made out of plastic waste. 

However this one is also special as a result of it, they plan to use all this plastic waste to create sturdy roads in Ambikapur.

It is often said we  shouldn’t waste our food, however during this distinctive case, the waste you collect is what will get you food. 

 India launched its initial ‘garbage cafe’ within the town of Ambikapur within the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.The thought behind is to provide food to the homeless and poor, whereas incentivising garbage pickup and keeping the streets clean.

The restaurant offers you a free meal for each metric weight unit of trash you collect or a considerable breakfast for five hundred grams of it. 

Delhi isn't the primary town to kick-start this innovation. In October last year, India’s second cleanest town in step with Central Government’s cleanliness survey – the Swachh Suravekshan, Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh initiated the idea of ‘garbage café’ wherever the poor and homeless are provided food at no cost if they deposit plastic waste.

 Subsequently  Notified space Council (NAC) in Koraput district of Odisha followed within the footsteps of Ambikapur and commenced an identical initiative which can benefit the  poor people get free get meals in exchange for a metric weight unit of plastic waste.

Seeing the success of Koraput district’s efforts, even Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) extended a similar initiative .It started serving a meal in exchange for a metric weight unit plastic waste.

There is a no brainer that plastic waste is harmful to the atmosphere. Tonnes of garbage is accumulated on a daily in our country and it becomes extremely tough to dispose them off. 

We frequently see ragpickers collecting such waste and attempting to earn some cash by selling them off. Despite all of this, they still do not manage to get a full day  meal.

To ensure these homeless folks get to eat an honest meal, the country's initial garbage restaurant has been launched in Chhattisgarh. Under this, the Municipal Corporation can offer food to the poor and homeless in position of plastic waste.

One kilo plastic waste is going to offer a full day meal whereas those assembling five hundred grams waste can get a considerable breakfast. 

Dealing with the hunger crisis is additionally important. The country continues to own one in all the world’s highest kid undernutrition rates, and has regarding 195 million underfed folks sharing 1 / 4 of the world hunger burden, in step with UN figures. 

 Lets be hopeful about seeing an India that's free of single-use plastics by 2022. But what are the obstacles to that happening? What we are facing  the challenge a lack of awareness among people. Because there is awareness in the urban areas, but in rural areas there's a very lack of awareness. 

Let's keep spreading good words and make this world a better place.

If these types of initiatives continue to work  then we all can be benefited.

We are the children of our mother Earth.We should be kind towards our mother.

It is the duty of each one of us to save our planet.