Recylcing Paper

Kopila House does its best to cooperate with the environment. It can be difficult when it comes to recycling because there are currently no programs to collect civilian glass, paper or other reusable materials. Last year a man stopped at the house to collect paper from old notebooks along with several other recyclable materials.

Upon Dinesh’s request he returned for a second visit. You can see in the pictures below, everyone is eager to help with the collection of the old notebooks for the collection man. The going rate for a kilo of notebook paper is 7 rupees. You can see in the pictures below as he uses his hand scale to measure the total weight of paper collected. The house and the environment will benefit for the reuse of the paper.

Dinesh and KC look on as the papers are weighed by a hand scale. Laxmi gets a closer look and agrees, "This one looks good!"

Nothing goes on at the house without Santosh (orange shirt) checking it out. He leads the rest of the crew (Amrit, Binita, Sarita, Rina, Santosh and Sharan; left to right) as the papers are separated.