When we Recycled Our Bins
Tags: Recycling, Sustainability, Spread Happiness, Save Nature, Teamwork

Part 2 of Blog

We are all getting more familiar with the concept of environmentalism every day. But did anyone try to practically imply it to their daily life except for experimental basis? Ask yourself this and you will get “NO” as the answer. So here we are trying to develop a pollution free environment by reducing the use of plastic and inorganic material. We are recycling the materials that are posing serious threat to our environment. Unfortunately, the magnitude of this problem has already gotten too much to be solved completely. Therefore, we thought of starting at a smaller level. As it is well said,

“If you want to bring a change, make some”.

A few weeks ago, me and my fellows came up with an idea to recycle the inorganic waste material found in our trash bins and create something innovative and then sell it. At first the idea did not seem feasible. Some of our mates did not see any positive output coming out of it. And some of them just backed out. From a group of six, only 4 people were left to bring that teeny tiny hope to life. We fastened our belts and started executing what we had in mind. Without even thinking of selling the products, we just started creating from the material that is considered as waste by an ordinary eye.

In the very first week of our work, we were able to make 4 products (one person each). We simply used discarded plastic CD’s, ugly pinecones, wasted tissue papers and piece of glass that is of no more of use and changed them into something beautiful. We added a little sugar and spice, and everything seemed nice!

After creating the specimen, we jumped to the next level of our idea that was our main project. The next level was about selling of those products. For which we started a campaign on social media as “Oriarts” to show people the hidden oriartists within us. We also started to market the idea at individual level. And to our surprise, we found our friends, and family to be our very first customers.

And finally, we were able to make our first earning by selling the products to our near and dear ones. But we felt like there was something missing. We might be able to make an impact, even at a small level, but are we spreading happiness? As Kid President asked in his renowned pep talk video, “What will you create that will make the world awesome?” The answer to that question is simple, Happiness. So, we collaborated with Muhammad Hameed Ud Din Babar, the CEO of Maryam Memorial Foundation. And we decided to donate money to an NGO that can bring smiles on a lot of faces.

And after our mutual decision and formal meeting, we made our first transaction to the foundation. Although our first transaction was minimal and might not be enough in numbers, we believe that if we can reach this level, we will reach that level too.

When we started this journey, we faced a lot of challenges. Some of our fellows left us but we did not lose hope and we kept following the rule,” slow and steady wins the race”. The other problem that we faced was how to see beauty in the wasted material. For this purpose, we all had gone to our “Mind Palace” and touched the different levels of innovation. The one and the most hectic problem was to involve people in our work. For this purpose, we have started our recycling campaign on social media. We have faced those challenges and learnt a lot. And we are willing to face the upcoming challenges as we are the lifelong learners.

We believe in taking small steps towards big changes. This project is one of them. We as team vouched to make this world a better place by bringing the change in our daily habits that became a lifestyle for most of us. And we envision to spread this spark ahead through social media and our network. The positive response from our fellows keeps us going but most importantly the purpose is our ray to success. We intend to see a habitual change in people by sharing our idea of converting trash into use, so that this world is left with lesser waste and more of beauty.