Navi Mumbai: NMMC Launches Country’s Pioneer Textile Recycling Facility in Belapur

Under the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, the Textile Committee, in collaboration with the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), is implementing the country's first-ever Textile Recycling Facility Project. This project processes and recycles waste clothing, and for this purpose, used clothing is collected and sorted. Then, it is recycled and the yarn is separated and used to make new cloth or other useful items.

Through the Textile Ministry of the Central Government, a special centre for the Textile Recycling Facility Project has been set up by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation at Belapur Sector 1, near Sunil Gavaskar Ground. This initiative is being implemented with the support of organisations like the SBI Foundation, IDH India Hub, and the Tisser Artisan Trust. 

In the first phase of this project, special clothing collection boxes have been placed in 260 societies in the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation area to collect used clothing, and vehicles have been deployed to collect it. Clothes collected from societies are brought to this clothing collection center, where they are classified into eight categories and then repurposed or recycled according to the classification. Notably, this has provided employment to a large number of women's self-help group members.

The project is achieving all the goals of recycling waste textiles, reducing textile waste, reducing the negative impact of that waste on the environment, creating new jobs, and achieving sustainable development in the textile industry. Navi Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Dr. Kailash Shinde directs to increase clothing collection boxes and set up display kiosks in malls and markets to make newly manufactured items from clothing reach the citizens.

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The Commissioner has appealed to citizens to use the decorative items produced at the Textile Recycling Facility for Ganeshotsav decorations. He also directed that exhibitions of these decorative textile items should be organised at malls and markets, so that citizens can easily access and purchase them.