Project Mumbai launched its first Mega plastic donation, collection and recycle drive past October 2018, celebrating the people’s festival of Giving, Daan Utsav.
The Plastic Recyclothon by Project Mumbai is now an award-winning initiative urging people to reduce consumption of harmful plastic which is damaging the environment. At the same time, this has emerged as one of the largest Public- Private-People Partnerships for a cause.
The initiative was awarded by Limca Book of Records 2019 largest Public- Private-People Partnerships for a cause
The Plastic Recyclothon: Ek Baar Phir is specifically an initiative to inculcate a positive behavioural change in terms of reducing plastic waste from our daily use.
In 2020 in spite of the difficult situation due to #Covid 19 and span of time during the pandemic, Project Mumbai has been able to organise the Plastic collection drive across Mumbai successfully
Needless to say, we pay gratitude to the citizens and like-minded organisations that came on boards to make this initiative a huge success. The volunteers played an important role in the implementation of the whole project.
Last year, 2021, everyone’s support was particularly noteworthy and truly commendable. From citizen donors, volunteers who travelled with trucks, all our initiative partners and all those who spread the word. Yes, also to those individuals, groups, malls, institutions and housing societies who willingly allowed their premises to become drop-off points.
We were delighted to have the support of L&T as our Principal partner in this Public Service Initiative. In other roles, Shakti Plastic Industries are working on the recycling support.
We had been able to organise the drive in 2021 in the month of June to December.
In Oct 2020 as we celebrate the Joy of giving during DAAN Utsav we organize the biggest collection drive for 2 days during the week. In Nov 2020 was the last drive planned for the year.
This Year with the gained vigour we are back with the monthly Plastic collection drive.. The Mumbai Plastic Recyclothon 2022 is on with the support of likeminded organisations/citizen groups, corporates and individuals.
Recycling plastic is a key component of modern waste reduction and it aims to improve environmental sustainability by substituting raw material inputs and redirecting waste output out of the economic system.
To contribute to the slogan – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, Project Mumbai initiated “The Mumbai Plastic Recyclothon” – India’s biggest Plastic Recyclothon. With the support of Mumbaikars living in housing societies, working in the corporate sector, enthusiastic school kids and energetic college going young adults, we geared up to collect over 250 tonnes of plastic in a week from October 2nd to 8th, 2018. The Mumbai Plastic Recyclothon aimed towards contributing to the city’s wellbeing, in order to reclaim and rebuild our city.
After giving a kickstart to this massive project in 2018, we have now successfully reached the fourth year, where more and more people have joined us to urge one another to reduce the consumption of harmful plastic which damages the environment to quite an extent. This initiative also managed to emerge as the largest Public-Private-People Partnerships for a cause and was awarded by the Limca Book of World Records 2019 for largest Public-Private-People Partnership for a cause.
Behavioral change – One of the most positive and major impacts of this action based initiative was a change in the behavior and attitude of people in Mumbai. Mumbaikars across residential complexes, offices and schools, realized the necessity to reduce plastic consumption which has been causing immense harm. We got innumerable messages from people assuring us of their reduced/complete stoppage of plastic consumption in their homes as much as possible.
Rejection/Refusal – Across India, one of the largest users of plastic has been noticed in the retail industry which has caused immense harm to the environment. For example, grocers and vegetable vendors have been using plastic since decades for distribution of their products. Due to The Plastic Recyclothon, we received various calls from people across geographies telling us about how they ensured that their local vendors stopped providing grocery or vegetables in plastic bags.
Demonstrated recycling – Project Mumbai has chosen a unique action oriented manner for building people’s trust and belief into what and how plastic can be recycled. By building trust through recycling and by creating this as a collaborative mechanism, we brought in recyclers who helped collect and segregate the plastic which was subsequently recycled into amenities for the city. In this case, specifically, benches are being made which will be placed in open spaces of Mumbai, especially parks and gardens.
Step One is to COLLECT the plastic in and around the area of travel, work, or stay.
Step two is to register with Project Mumbai on our website www.projectmumbai.org once the registrations open up (On 14th September 2021 to 26th September 2021 ) Registration close on 26th September 2021
Step One is to COLLECT the plastic in and around the area of travel, work, or stay.
Step two is to register with Project Mumbai on our website www.projectmumbai.org once the registrations open up (On 16th May 2022 to 23rd May 2022 ) Registration close on 23rd May 2022
On the pre-decided date (this time 27th May 2022 ) ensure you drop off your collected plastic waste within the time restrictions mentioned at your nearest drop off location and collection will be done the immediately next day from all the drop off locations
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Advisor and Head, Mental Health-Wellness Initiative for Project Mumbai
Dr. Chetna Duggal is an Assistant Professor in the School of Human Ecology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She pursued Psychology (Hons.) from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, and then went on to complete her graduate studies in Calcutta University. She has completed her M.Phil in Clinical Psychology from NIMHANS, Bangalore and her Phd from TISS, Mumbai.
She is a practising psychotherapist and works with children, adolescents, couples and families. She is the trustee of Apnishala, an organisation working towards making life skills education accessible to children from underprivileged contexts. As part of outreach work she launched the School Initiative for Mental Health Advocacy (SIMHA) under the Centre of Excellence on Adolescents and Youth (CoEAY). She was a committee member for curriculum development for the ‘Mental Health’ theme for ‘School Health Program’ under the aegis of ‘Ayushman Bharat’ launched by MHRD and MoHFW.
She is currently guest editor for the ‘Psychological Studies’ Journal and was the guest editor for the Special issue on ‘Spirituality and
Psychology’ of the journal.
Her research interests include psychotherapy practice, training and supervision, and adolescent and youth mental health.
Dr. Kersi Chavda is currently the Chairperson of the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS) Task Force dealing with College Psychiatry. With experience exceeding three decades, Dr, Chavda has been a Past President of the Bombay Psychiatry Society Dr. Chavda is also a consultant at the PD Hinduja National, Hinduja Healthcare, and the Sir HN Reliance foundation hospitals In his various avatars, he was also the chairperson of the task force of the IPS dealing with the LGBTQ community.. which was successful to issue a position statement that was quoted in the landmark judgment by Two of the five learned judges when they repealed Section 377.
Dr. Chavda has been a Panel Member of the IPS task force that laid down clinical guidelines for the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders The field of interest is kids.. had been part of the first panel of the Maharashtra government that had laid down concessions for Learning Disabilities in Mumbai Currently chair of the IPS TF dealing with college psychiatry dealing with school psychiatry and counseling Was panel Member of the task force of the IPS dealing with ethical boundaries between client and dr.. this is now being taken up by the IMC as a guideline across Indian health services Was chairperson of the task force of the IPS dealing with the LGBTQ community.. we managed to issue a position statement that was quoted in the landmark judgment by Two of the five learned judges when they repealed Section 377 Was a Panel member of the IPS task force that laid down clinical guidelines for the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders Been working for more than 35 yrs Field of interest is kids.. had been part of the first panel of the Maharashtra government that had laid down concessions for Learning Disabilities in Mumbai.
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Mr. Paresh Sukthankar is Lead Partner of Sanaksh Advisors LLP, a firm he set up in 2019 to provide business and management advisory services, primarily to Private Equity and Venture Capital firms. He is an independent non-executive Director on the Board of Commercial International Bank (Egypt) and is an Advisory Board Member at Yuva Parivartan, Kherwadi Social Welfare Association. Mr. Sukthankar is a member on the Board of Management of autonomous Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) and on the Board of Research of the University of Mumbai. He is also a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the College of Supervisors, Reserve Bank of India, and a Mentor to the Indian School of Democracy.
Mr. Sukthankar has been a banker for over three decades. He was part of the core team which founded HDFC Bank in 1994-95 and helped build it into one of India’s leading, most respected financial institutions. He was inducted on the bank’s Board as Executive Director in 2007 and elevated to the post of Deputy Managing Director in 2014. He tendered his resignation in August 2018 and completed his tenure with the bank in November 2018. Mr. Sukthankar has been a member of various committees formed by Reserve Bank of India and Indian Banks’ Association. Prior to joining HDFC Bank, he worked in Citibank for 9 years from 1985 to 1994.
Mr. Sukthankar is a Commerce graduate from Sydenham College, University of Mumbai and an MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS, Mumbai). He has also completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business School.
Ridham Desai is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley with 20 years at the firm. He heads Morgan Stanley’s Indian Equity Research team which is the top ranked team in the country. He is the country’s top ranked equity market strategists and has been consistently ranked among the best analysts in the country over his career spanning over 26 years. He has represented Morgan Stanley in several public debates on the equity market and the economy and is also a regular media contributor. He has led debates on the Indian economy since the beginning of the 90s penning several path breaking reports on the country. The latest such report is India’s Digital Leap: The Multi Trillion Dollar Opportunity which discusses how the digitization of the country over the past three years is taking the country into a new growth orbit and how India could be best investment destination in the world in the coming years.
Manish has over 25 years experience in Infrastructure, having been sector leader at Crisil, KPMG and PwC. He has advised Investors and Government in enabling private sector participation in infrastructure. He is now an independent expert on Sustainability & Infrastructure Financing; and writes on public policy issues at www.askhowindia.org.
Besides being on the Advisory Board of Project Mumbai, he also Chairs the Rurbanisation COE of Jagriti Enterprise Center – Purvanchal. He is BE(Hons) from BITS Pilani and PGDBM from IIM Calcutta.
With an impact graph stretching across three decades, Shishir has ventured into several interconnected arenas of work each of them as exciting as the other, if not more. At the heart of Shishir’s core and vision, are not-for-profit campaigns and initiatives which help citizens achieve transformative change by engaging with systems and structures. Citizen empowerment and a qualitative change in their lives for the positive, is what he strives towards – in action and as a catalyst.
Up until November 2017, Shishir was the CEO of Bombay First, also known as Mumbai First, a unique not-for-profit model of Public-Private Participation which aims at making Mumbai a better place to live, work and play, for everyone. As it’s youngest CEO, he held the position for close to four years. During his stint at Mumbai First, he was instrumental in setting up the much-appreciated War-Room for the Government of Maharashtra, to fast-track key infra initiatives. It was a Mumbai First-McKinsey initiative with the Government of Maharashtra.
In 2017, iVolunteer, an international not-for-profit body awarded him the Special Jury Prize, as an acknowledgement of his ‘Exemplary contribution to India’s Social Development.’ Another one of his initiatives, Vote4Mumbai, along with the State Election Commission, Maharashtra, played an important role in corporate citizens stepping out to vote in larger numbers, resulting in a 10 per cent rise in voter turnouts for the civic elections of Mumbai two years ago. His effort was acknowledged officially.
He also led a 25000-strong volunteer base of citizens to beautify 36 Railway Stations of Mumbai, within a record seven days in 2016. This is arguably one of the largest such volunteer-focused public private people initiatives to have ever unfolded in India, in such a short time.
Chairman of Muskaan – Sharing Smiles, a not for profit engaged in educating under privileged children in one of Mumbai’s suburbs and also a Trained Counsellor, Shishir takes up Individual and Corporate Counselling projects on request. He was part of the founding team which set up Nithya Sahaya, a first of its kind free, walk-in counselling at St. Michael’s Church in Mahim, which experiences a foot-fall of over 90,000 people every Wednesday, across faith, gender and economic strata.
Shishir is a lawyer, with a postgraduation in Mass Communication. Associated with some of the best institutions, including NDTV, Aaj Tak, MidDay and Indian Express, he was regarded as a hard-nosed journalist and anchor, during his 20-year stint as a journalist.
His passion for facilitating collaborations at multiple levels, across various verticals and ability to hone better leadership and ownership in individuals as well as organisations, makes him an asset to the development of a city like Mumbai and an icon for socio-civic changemakers.
A Chartered Accountant by training, a Banker by profession and a perfectionist by nature. I believe that the purpose of life is to make it better …better than what it was yesterday, for oneself, one’s family and for the community. I have two guiding philosophies, 1) ‘there must be a better way’ and 2) ‘no harm in trying.’
I grew up in Delhi, flew the nest when I joined HSBC Bank. Since then, my life is landmarked by the seven cities I have lived in across different parts of the world.
I started my working life with A.F. Ferguson, Consultants, thereafter I joined Hongkong Bank (now HSBC Bank). My work experience has been mostly in traditional banking operations and corporate banking. I worked for HSBC Bank in Hongkong, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Dubai.
As I became a trailing spouse, I got the opportunity to work in different organisations; Mashreq Bank in Dubai where I worked in Corporate Banking and IFC-SEDF (South Asia Development Fund) in Dhaka, where we worked in partnership with the government, the private sector, donor partners and other development partners to deal with the constraints to SME development in Bangladesh.
Currently I act as an advisor to aspirants, whether they are aspiring college entrants or budding entrepreneurs.
Spent over 2 decades in various capacities including being responsible for Supply Chain and Chemicals business and spearheading the Human Resources, Corporate Quality and Safety Functions at the group level at Asian Paints, amongst the top ten paint companies in the world with manufacturing presence in 16 countries.