16th August 1947 - 1971

1971 - 2020
An Threw
d this
Used
this An estimated 8
billion plastic
handles across
the globe per
year

2020
onwards,
talking
about this
 16th August 1947 - 1971

Same with shopping bags

 BIMTECH’s Motto in Circular Economy efforts

1: Ensure SUSTAINABILITY through conservation of natural

resources by recycling bulk industrial waste through new
products/services development

2: Ensure Techno Economic Viability to attract entrepreneurs

to take up the work further

AND

3: Create new job opportunities

 This is in contrast to a Linear Economy which is a
‘Take, Make, Use and Disard’
model of production.
Linear Economy:
Take: (Fresh and
virgin Inputs, Make: (Products and
Use Discard (Waste)
Natural resources) Services)

Circular Economy:
Take: (Fresh and
Make: (Products and
Discarded Inputs) Use Discard (Waste)
Services)
 LINEAR RECYCLING
ECONOMY ECONOMY

Take Take

Make Make
Recycle
Use
Use

Waste/Discard
Waste/Discard

Seggregate at
source
 CIRCULA
R
ECONOM
Y

Take

Make

Recycle Return

Use

Repair Re-use
Waste/Discard

O
R
Ecology is Nature’s Balancing Act or Design
The FOUR kinds of living species are;

HERBIVORES Those Living on Plants and vegetation

CARNIVORES Those Living on other animals

Those Living on Dead plants or

SAFROFAGOUS
Animals (Vultures, Ants, Cocroaches.
AND
COPROHAGOU Those eating feces, other species or
S own
For ensuring a Circular Economy

We need to create Saprofagous OR

Coprohagous industry
Our Concern:

Ever declining deteriorating environment quality,

and
Conservation of all natural resources

The tenets:
Innovation
Curiosity
Questioning
Creativity
Visualisation
Ability to connect unconnected
Our faculty’s earliest works date back to the mid eighties

About 6 billion plastic handles of tooth brushes are

discarded worldwide every year, adding to plastic pollution

Conceptualised in 1985, Video made in 1991, Put

on the youtube in 2017

JUST REDESIGN AND DON’T GENERATE

waste..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Z646eATNk
Colgate Palmolive and Oral-B brought the product in 2021
Our aim:
To create products and services which ensure

Techno-Commercial Viability: Saleability….

To create a PULL instead of PUSH: Create demand….

CHARACTERISATION OF THE WASTE

Availaibility in a location in large quantities, Self sustainable

Issues to be addressed:

Costs of Collection as they are very thinly distributed

geographically
 Firozabad glass bangle cluster faced
problems of very short life of melting
pots.

Analysed the raw material of pot and found it contains 67% Silica, which itself is a raw mtl. For glass:

S.No. Parameters Test Results (%)

1 LOI 7.52

2 SiO2 67.28
3 IR NIL
4 Al2O3 19.88
5 Fe203 1.00
6 CaO 0.68
7 SO3 0.14
8 MgO 0.60
Tried/Experimented with Graphite Cruicible
used by foundries. Expected Life of six
months, against 20 days of conventional
pots.
Cupola Slag: Conversion to Pavement Bricks in
Samalkha
Stone slabs industry

The problem

The solution

Low cost heat insulation for furnaces

 India produces about 5.5 Million Tonnes
Rice Husk to RHA
of this ash annually.

Rice Husk Ash: Good as

a straight replacement
for sand: 100%

Produced from Rice Husk: 96%

purity Amorphous Reactive Silica

Facing Sand, Rubber blending

compound
Bahjoi (Varshney) Rice Mills:
Sometimes in 2011
PURANPUR: U.P. SEPTEMBER 2017
Concrete blocks: Normal River sand and with RHA

Wall Plastering sample and close up of surface finish

Other possible uses of Rice Husk Ash
This product can be used in a variety of applications like:
• Green concrete
• High performance concrete
• Refractory/Heat Insulation blocks
• Ceramic glaze
• Heat Insulation blocks
• Roofing shingles
• Waterproofing chemicals
• Oil spill absorbent
• Specialty paints
• Flame retardants
• Carrier for pesticides
• Insecticides and bio fertilizers etc.
 Super white
Amorphous Reactive
Silica powder
produced from Rice
Husk
 Spent Coffee

A potential source of alternate fuel, if

other value added options like
extraction of caffeine is not possible:
Less than 2% ash: >4000 Kcal/Kg on
sun dried basis

Granular Charcoal: CV >5,000

Activated Carbon under trials

 Firozabad glass bangle
cluster faced problems
of very short life of
melting pots.

Analysed the raw material of pot and found it contains 67% Silica, which itself is a raw
mtl. For glass:

Identified Alternate material for

glass melting pots

CARBON FOOT PRINT REDUCTION

Potential:

7 Million SCM Natural Gas/Year

 Blending with Asphalt for road
PET-G wrappers waste
construction

Compressed slabs on Plywood

making machine press, corrugated
sheet, sheets etc. etc..
We wish to continue our works in the area of various
Bulk wastes, viz:
Vegetable mandi waste and peel offs

Cupola Furnace Slag

Rice Husk Ash

Polyethylene, Plastics of various grades,

Non paper Packing material
Based on the field visit to some villages in Mundka district (Jharkhand
State) and to the CFC, it is felt that useful and value added products can
be produced from different wastes generated at the individual
artisan/family/cottage levels and so also at the CFC, e.g.

Some samples of
Type of wastes
generated
Demonstration of converting Waste Bamboo piece to charcoal, at Mundka

Waste Bamboo piece Pyrolyzed

Charcoal

Views of compressed charcoal briquettes being made by a

company using the coconut shell charcoal. The company
expressed that similar product can be made from bamboo
charcoal also. The process uses agro based and food grade
binders and a press or extrusion machine.
 Bamboo composites (We may refer or contact Dr. Asokan Pappu from AMPRI, CSIR,
Bhopal)
Springer article on bamboo composite materials
(CLICK HERE)

Characteristics of thermal properties of engineered bamboo panels

produced in Canada, China, and Colombia. 
Thermal conductivity of engineered bamboo composites

Wooden flooring panels etc. etc.

Process-controlled optimization of the tensile strength of bamboo fiber

composites for structural applications (CLICK HERE)
Spent Coffee, Temple
flowers

Deepawali waste
Broken Pottery

Industrial Sludges
Stone dust

SPENT WASHES, CHEMICALS, PROCESS

REJECTS
Producers/Generators of Bulk Waste: Big
Framework for Circular Economy
Logistics of collection and
generators with captive availability and
distribution: limitaions/
Aggregators of small generators of waste
constraints,issues Laboratories: Industry, CSIR, Commercial Labs.,
Engineering colleges, IICT, NPL, NCL,
MSME/MoEF/Sc&Tech.
Assesment of generation of category wise
Characterisation of Waste: To identify
waste: Study of current uses/Applications:
Physical, Chemical, Biological,
Assessment of surplus available: Size of
Biochemical etc. components in waste
present set up: Pilot, Bench, Scaling up
needed?

Listing of environmental Brain storming teams to creatively Identify

impact: Localised impact and useful components and their probable new
problems faced by nearby and useful applications
population

State PCBs,
Environmental groups,
NGOs etc.

A pool of volunteering enterprises to spare their

Testing and Performance evaluation: Study of
facilities to try/produce samples. Environment Ideation of probable products and
product such developed, it’s long term implications
Conscious Enterprises”. prototype development
and R&D to perfect it

Sustainability Assesment of Assessing commercial viability: Plant Size

Product modification and
Technology/ies wise DPR, Techno Economic Feasibility
Testing
(UNEP SAT methodology)

Identification of potential
entrepreneurs, Banks, VCs,
Prototype Production Fis, Scaling up and
facility commercialisation

Replication in similar industry

 The FIVE Friends for Waste Minimisation

WHAT? HOW? WHERE? WHEN? WHO?

PURPOSE: What is being achieved? WHY?

MEANS: How is it being achieved? THAT ONLY?
PLACE: Where is it being achieved? THAT WAY ONLY
SEQUENCE: When is it being achieved? THERE ONLY?
PERSON: Who is achieving it? THEN ONLY AND

WHAT ELSE? HE/SHE ONLY?

HOW ELSE?
WHAT SHOULD?
WHERE ELSE? ALTERNATIVES
HOW SHOULD?
WHEN ELSE?
WHERE SHOULD?
WHO ELSE?
WHEN SHOULD?

WHO SHOULD?
 FINALLY…..
REDESIGN NOT TO GENERATE WASTE..

Example…
It is time to find out productive and value
added use of these bulk wastes.
Needs R&D efforts
Can these be CSR activities of the
organisations?
All that has been said is not theory or dream.

Work is already going ON…. Click Here

MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES,
Commitment & employee participation,
WASTE MINIMIZATION OPTIONS available, WASTE
ELIMINATION / MINIMIZATION AT THE POINT OF
GENERATION,
WASTE MINIMIZATION TARGETS,
WASTE MINIMIZATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION etc.
Roofing sheets from waste polythene/
plastics/PET etc. from recycled paper plant.
 Some Insects and animals and birds are great Waste
Management Experts
Dung beetle or the Fly

They get no respect! But what they eat helps define their
ecological role, which is recycling animal wastes. And, if that role
were not fulfilled, they would certainly be missed. Just like the
corner shop “Raddiwala” or “Kabadi”

https://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/agcomm/newscolumns/archives/OSL/2005/November/051110OSL.htm#.WNyi_juGM2w
Rag Pickers: The unsung Heroes
However, they all trade in the areas of scrap or wastes which
are already known to have value for recycling.
How about other bulk wastes, both industrial and domestic?
Like
Vegetable mandi waste, peel offs of vegetables,
Cupola Furnace Slag
Rice Husk Ash: An environmental nuisance in Industrial areas
Polyethylene, Plastics of various grades, Non paper Packing
material
Broken Pottery,
Stone dust
Tonnes of flowers near temples and in rivers and streams,
Deepawali crackers burnt outs
Sludges from various treatment plants,
AND MANY OTHER

SPENT WASHES,
CHEMICALS,
PROCESS REJECTS,
CUTOUTS ETC.

FROM A HOST OF INDUSTRIES

Waste:

Ignorance of Usefulness, Characteristics, strengths and

Positives

A misplaced Resource

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder