PepsiCo Solid Waste Management Programme

PepsiCo India continues to strengthen its Solid Waste Management initiatives in partnership with Exnora, an environmental NGO. This award winning, income generating partnership provides a clean environment to more than 4,00,000 people in 2009 across Pammal, Chennai, Nagapattinam, Tenkasi and Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, Sangareddy in Andhra Pradesh and Panipat, Haryana.

Unique income generating partnership with leading environmental NGO, Exnora, a pioneer in waste management. Community members enjoy the benefits of a clean environment and are educated on how to recycle waste, not just relocate it.

• Households segregate their bio-degradable waste from their recyclable waste. Bio-degradable waste is then converted into organic manure through the process of vermi-culture.
• Programme recycles 97% of household garbage; this project provides livelihood to more than 500 community members. Bio-degradable waste is converted into high quality organic manure through vermi-culture.
• Recyclable waste such as PET and plastics, waste paper and tetra packs are recycled.
• Community awareness programme includes door-to-door campaigns and street plays to motivate people to segregate organic and inorganic garbage at source to enable recycling.
• Every aspect of programme built around Community and Government participation to help programme evolve into a self sustaining model.

Awards

• The unique PepsiCo-Exnora initiative in Pammal was awarded the environmental Golden Peacock Award for Innovation in 2006.
• Zero Solid Waste Centre in Pammal was recognized as a model project by UNICEF in 2007.
• PepsiCo- Exnora Waste to Wealth program won the BSE NASSCOM Social and Corporate Governance Award 2008.