A collection centre is a local facility where recyclable waste is received, weighed, paid for, sorted and baled before it travels to a washing or recycling plant. It is the link between the people who recover waste and the industry that recycles it.
A well-run centre does more than store material. It records who supplied each lot, which creates the traceability that EPR and recycled-content certification require, and it offers waste workers fair weights, transparent prices and safer working conditions. Lucro runs its own network of 45+ collection centres, which buy from local waste pickers and aggregators. Its sorting hubs are called Avkaar Kendras.
CII Sustainable Plastic Packaging Awards 2026
Lucro took home the Excellence award for Incorporation of Recycled Content in both rigid and flexible packaging at the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Sustainable Plastic Packaging Awards 2026:
Post-consumer plastic, back on the shelf as bottles and pouches. The jury noticed.
