Plastic bottle crushers installed at Hyderabad stations

South Central Railways has installed machines to crush and recycle plastic bottles
At selected railway stations in Hyderabad.
The installations have been made at Kachiguda, Secunderabad and Nizamabad stations along with Vijayawada
These machines are as big as a refrigerator and can crush around 5000 bottles per day
The crushed bottles come out as fine plastic pieces, ready to be sold as scrap in the market
The scrap can also be reused to make bags and T-shirts