Turning waste into art at Noida’s Shilp Haat

Waste management is a huge problem in the city. Now, the Noida Authority has tapped a huge amount of waste being generated from Noida’s industries and turned it into unique artifacts. After the authorities spotted waste material lying around the under-construction venue of Shilp Haat in Sector 33, officials decided to use it to beautify the venue. From wooden drums and discarded tyres to paint buckets, all waste has been turned into benches, vertical gardens and various other attractions. “We have also used a plastic paint bucket to create hanging wooden well. The well will be filled with two feet water, which will be pumped by the bucket powered by electricity to create a moving water body. The structure also has vintage filament bulbs on top,” says Manish Kumar from Floriculture Department of Noida Authority.



Noida, being an industrial city, also receives a large amount of wooden pallets that come from cargo packaging. These are later used for burning. The Noida Authority has purchased this wood to use it for construction at Shilp Haat. It is then stored in a dumping yard in Sector 132, where nails and other metal objects are removed from it, and the wood is sent to artisans. Till now, 4,000 kg of recycled wood has been used at Shilp Haat. “This initiative is our attempt to save the environment and also encourage waste management among citizens. The vertical gardens which have been put up around the city have plastic holders, but we will soon replace them with the recycled wood as well,” says Rajiv Tyagi, General Manager, Noida Authority. According to Kumar, the initiative has also helped in giving work to local artisans. “Instead of using machine-cut wood, which is readily available in the market in required sizes and shapes, we have used recycled wood. The large logs and sheets of wood taken from industries were carved out by more than 10 local artisans,” says Kumar.