Reliance Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), announced on its Recycle4Life campaign, volunteers have collected over 78 tons of waste plastic bottles for recycling. This record-setting collection drive was made possible by mobilizing over three lac employees, their family members and partners of RIL and its allied businesses like Jio and Reliance Retail across their several locations in India.
Employees, families and partners of Reliance Industries Limited came together and collected 39,00,000 (78 tons) of plastic waste have broken the earlier record of Costa Rica which had collected 30 tons PET bottles. The company’s wide campaign – Recycle4Life was rolled out in October where employees were encouraged to collect waste plastic bottles from their surroundings and bring them to their offices for recycling. Mrs Nita M Ambani, Founder and Chairperson, Reliance Foundation said: “At Reliance Foundation, we believe that caring for our environment is of utmost importance. Building on Reliance Foundation’s ongoing efforts to promote. With this thousands of Reliance employees and their families across the length and breadth of India have volunteered as part of this initiative and supported our record-setting drive to collect and recycle plastic waste.
