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The plastic bottles collected are given to a paper mart near his house, which is then passed on to scrap dealers for recycling. When plastic goes in the garbage bins, it is not easy to recycle as it gets crushed and compressed. If people can segregate degradable and non-degradable waste, plastic waste can be reduced,” he says. Earlier this year, to create awareness on the ill-effects of plastic, he made a 23-ft killer whale using plastic bottles and caps. For a kilogram of plastic bottles, he gets `15 and a kilogram of plastic covers he gets `8..