PANJIM: As part of the ambitious Swachh Bharat Mission, Goa will soon see a theme park based on the ‘waste-to-art’ as an effort to create replicas of iconic structures out of discarded materials or scraps, currently lying with various government departments.
The Waste-to-Art Park is proposed to come up at the existing park at Bhagwan Mahavir Bal Vihar, Campal in Panjim city. Approximately 200kgs of scrap will be used for creating the park.
The project is proposed by the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC), which is appointed as the nodal agency for condemnation of vehicles and other scrap materials, unserviceable equipments, except e-waste, for all government departments, autonomous bodies and other state run agencies.
“It has been observed that there exists lot of unusable, unserviceable items such as vehicles, furniture, equipment’s, machineries, metal scrap, construction and demolition waste, plastic items etc. which are dumped and piled up at various Government offices in the State,” the Corporation said in their annual report.
“As a step towards promoting upcycling/ recycling and spread a social message amongst the general public about sustainable development and circular economy, GWMC intends to utilize a portion of such waste to develop Waste to Art Park showcasing sculptures/ miniatures/ monuments made out of scrap/ waste materials,” it said further.
The Corporation, is, however yet to quantify the total waste.
The GWMC said that the Waste to Art Project is an extension of the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission.’
With the project, the Corporation also targets to achieve good score in the Swatch Sarvekashan assessment of the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. It has special scoring to the cities which has developed waste to wonder parks.
