Waste not, want not

If you’ve been to a HasGeek event, whether a large scale event at MLR or an open house at our office, you’ve probably noticed that we’re big on waste separation. It’s a good habit we’ve all formed.

At our conferences, we use a simple, three part system:

Wet waste — food and beverage leftovers — becomes compost
Dry waste — paper and plastics — is burned in an incinerator
Rejects — earthenware dishes — go to the landfill

We partner with Hasiru Dala at our conferences to “segregate at source.” And we want your help.

After eating, separate your waste by scraping leftover food into the wet waste bin, and depositing empty containers and cups in the dry waste bin. It’s easy and takes about 30 seconds.

If you can’t do this yourself, please ask a member of the Hasiru Dala team to assist you.

Segregate at the source

If we take care at our conferences, in the office, and at home where it is quick, clean, and simple we prevent someone else from doing it later when it is much more challenging. Post-processing waste introduces danger, disease, and loss of dignity for the people who pick trash. It means landfills accumulate non-biodegradable waste and leach chemicals into the water supply. In the worst cases, rubbish fills our city streets feeding vermin and harming cows.

It is so easy to stop this dystopian cycle. Step one: pay attention to the waste bins at HasGeek conferences.

Before the bins

We keep our events as low-waste as possible by working with our food court vendors to minimise packaging and by designing the whole event space with the environment in mind. Our stage sets and event booths are made with reusable and repurposed materials, and the banners and backdrops on our stages can be upcycled into funky fashion bags or used as waterproofing and roofing material.

HasGeek team members are good shepherds to the earth and we hope you will be, too. Swachh Bharat happens when we all take small actions, like separating our waste.