These Indian Cafes Let You Pay With Garbage: 1 Kilo Of Plastic Gets You Rice, Two Curries And Dal

These Indian Cafes Let You Pay With Garbage: 1 Kilo Of Plastic Gets You Rice, Two Curries And Dal

These Indian Cafes Let You Pay With Garbage: 1 Kilo Of Plastic Gets You Rice, Two Curries And Dal credit – Ambikapur Municipal Corporation In the Indian city of Ambikapur, several Garbage Cafes will give a person an entire four-course meal if they bring 1 kilo of plastic waste with them. Feeding on average 20 people a day, it’s a clever and distinctly Indian way of clearing two hurdles in one jump: that of hunger among the lower classes, and that of plastic litter in its cities. Not that Ambikapur, in central India’s Chhattisgarh state, is particularly unkempt; it’s earned a reputation as the “city of no landfills.” But part of earning that reputation was coming up with great ideas like the Garbage Cafe. Generating 226 metric tons of plastic waste per day, Ambikapur citizens and businesses recycle almost all of it already, but for the bits and pieces that slip through the cracks, locals like Rashmi Mondal can hunt them down, gather them up, and feed her whole family. 2.2 pounds of plastic t…