It really is simple to keep your dry, recyclable wastes separate...

It really is as simple as this photograph from my kitchen : 

1. Hang a big bag where people in your home can easily see it - near the kitchen waste bin. 

2. Train YOURSELF first to throw that tea packet, the milk satchet, the pen you had to throw away, into this big bag - not in your kitchen waste bin. 

3. When you are getting the hang of it yourself after a few days, speak to family members and your maid. 

4. They will surely keep forgetting the first few days, so check the kitchen bin every now and then and you will find plastics and paper in it. Remind the person who forgot, to retrain his / her hands.. it really is simple.

Various commonly thrown articles from households and shops include plastics, PET bottles (in which you buy water, coke, neembu pani), milk satchets and cardboard. In August this year, such used materials were being sold by ragpickers for between 10-30 rs. a kg. Before demonetization, PET bottles sold for 45 rs. a kg. 

This chain of recyclers exists in all parts of our country, from ragpickers to waste agreggators to bulk re-sellers, and finally the industrial units which use the recycled material to manufacture products. For example, the T Shirts that the Indian cricket team wore in the World Cup in 2015, were made from recycled plastic bottles.