Hyderabad: While occupying a lot of space, scrap like tyres and drums do not really fetching a price when one tries to dispose them off and leaving them to rot is not an option.
Instead of selling the tyres at Rs 100 to Rs 200, the North Zone officials of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) have come up with an initiative to reuse the scrap material that is piling up in their backyard.
In partnership with city-based designers and owners of Bamboo House India, Prashant Lingam and his wife Aruna Kappagantula, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has started a pilot project for recycling the scrap.
The entrepreneur couple and their team are working on recycled drum and tyre furniture and are on an experimental project to refurbish the North Zone GHMC office and Clock Tower and Bowenpally parks.
“It is a pilot project and all the raw material has been sourced from GHMC’s Kavadiguda dump yard. Around 80 tyres and 20 drums are being used for the pilot project using which we have designed a few prototypes and submitted the same to GHMC,” said Mr Lingam.
There are both indoor and outdoor furniture models. There are single seaters, benches, planters, speakers and lighting system, sofas among the list of products made. The team is working on a model for “tree guards” which currently costs GHMC Rs 1,200 each.
“It serves a dual purpose. On the one hand, the urban scrap will be put to use and on the other hand these models won’t cost a bomb,” said Mr Lingam.
GHMC plans to cut down on the cemented benches which cost around Rs 8,000 each and use the recycled benches which would cost them not more than Rs 3,000.
