WASTE TO WEALTH

waste to wealth

BEIJING -- As night falls on the town of Mayong in south China's Guangdong Province, container trucks emblazoned with the logo "Nine Dragons Paper", a local household name, take to the streets.

Long after most people have gone home for the night the Nine Dragons Paper factory is still ablaze with lights.

we run around the clock. I've never seen a slack period since I worked here," says a company manager, adding that orders had already piled up into December for the firm's packaging products, which are used by companies like Coca Cola, Nike, Sony, Haier and TCL.

Waste paper is the foundation of the wealth of Zhang Yin, the 49-year-old owner of the factory and its sister plant in the eastern Jiangsu Province.

The first woman to top the Huran Report rich list in China, she has amassed an estimated fortune of 27 billion yuan (US$3.4 billion) by recycling scrap paper imported from the United States.

And topping the rich list has made her even richer. The share price of her company jumped 2.77 percent on the good news, adding another 1.1 billion yuan to her assets.

Wealthier than US television host Oprah Winfrey and author of the Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling, Zhang is described by acquaintances as a "round-faced, not very tall" woman who "doesn't like dressing up and looks like a person of action".

Over the years, Zhang's low profile has helped her remain largely unknown. "

I'm an entrepreneur. A high profile is unnecessary," Zhang was quoted as saying by the Shanghai-based China Business News, whose reporter described her speaking as "extremely fast".

"This title is just a calculation, not a big thing for me," Zhang Yin told a Xinhua reporter last week. "But it's very important for my group. We have worked for 20 years to make the fortune."

The eldest of eight children in a poor soldier's family in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Zhang learnt independence at an early age by looking after her brothers and sisters.

She started her career in waste paper trading in Hong Kong with 30,000 yuan in 1985 and has stuck with the paper industry since then.

States by setting up the America Chung Namp, Inc. (ACN) in 1990.

The ACN, whose asset value was not calculated in the rich list, is reported to provides nearly 80 percent of the raw materials for the Nine Dragons Paper. "The key to the success of Nine Dragons Paper is ensuring the long-term and steady purchase of high-quality waste paper in large quantities," said Zhang.

ACN took good care of that, ranking the largest US exporter of raw materials for paper-making and the biggest container exporter among all US industries for the past five years in a row.

ACN's success came with the burgeoning Chinese paper-makers' reliance on imported scrap paper. Since its beginnings in the 1990s, China's paper-making industry is growing faster than any other in the world with an output of 49.5 million tons in 2004, while 54.4 million tons of paper was consumed, both figures ranking the world's second highest.

However, domestic supplies are insufficient, as only 30 percent of China's scrap paper is recycled each year, compared with 70 percent in the United States. Forced to buy foreign scrap, China imported 12 million tons of waste paper in 2005, nearly half of the world's waste paper available for export.

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Composting kitchen waste...
Special demonstrations at dāram...



To convert kitchen waste to wealth and to help keep the city clean




dāram presents a weekend exhibition of terracotta composters for composting wet waste at home.

The composters are brought to Hyderabad by ‘Wastes-Away’ in association with Bangalore based ‘Daily Dump’ that has pioneered these hand crafted composters. Daily Dump helps you manage your household waste and convert it to useful high-quality compost. The Daily Dump products are designed to ensure that you compost at home, conveniently and hygienically.

THE GARBAGE PROBLEM IN INDIAN CITIES


Big Indian cities produce 3000 tonnes of waste everyday at the least. Most of this reaches dumps that are illegal. Till our cities get a planned and efficient waste management programme, this situation is likely to continue and even get worse as the population increases and we consume even more.
Individual citizens can help by reducing their individual garbage footprint - by reducing the garbage they generate and in other cases by re-cycling waste. One excellent way of dealing with wet, organic waste like that from the kitchen is to compost it. Waste like this, actually does not need to travel because it contains 60% water. The municipal department thus ends up spending fuel, cartage and labour transporting water!!
Daily Dump allows citizens to help manage this wet waste at home itself, to convert it to useful manure and at the same time reduce the burden on the city’s civic infrastructure.

NEW EXCHANGE POLICY FOR GARMENTS
Due to problems with our audit in the previous financial year, we have had to make some new rules regarding exchange.
- Exchange of garments can be done within 15 days from the date of purchase. This rule is in effect from 1st of June 09.
- Exchange of garment will be permitted only if there is a defect in the garment or for size.
- Please make sure you select only the correct size before you purchase the garment.
- We cannot exchange garment without the original bill.
- Exchange is permitted only once.





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