Corporate-Waste

Corporate waste covers a large variety of waste production that is annually generated with commercial offices and industries as its bulk producer. This category extends well beyond the plastic and Electrical and Electronic Equipment largely employed within office boundaries. Wood, metal, Styrofoam, ceramic, paint, etc., also form a major chunk of this waste. The discarding of glassware, furniture, and supporting equipment produced in commercial offices and industries poses a continuous threat to the environment in terms of disposal, degradation, and damage.

Moreover, under the concept of the Circular Economy, these so-called waste products can also be beneficial in generating and regenerating a large number of basic elements that can be further used in production. Thus, employing a strategy of disposal as against recycling not only delivers a continuous and impacting blow to the environment but also to wealth utilisation.

These “waste products,” if recycled, can lead to the extraction of metals like Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, etc., along with a multitude of other products that can later be consumed in the production of other finished products. Thus, it is important to capitalise on these wasted resources by channelling them back to the economy and not leaving them to deteriorate over decades in landfills and water bodies, posing a fatal threat to a number of natural ecosystems.