NOIDA: For the first time the Noida Authority has utilised discarded cargo packaging material such as wood from industries like Samsung, LG, Holland Tractors etc., waste tyres, cable wires, nails and metal objects etc. (which were mostly dumped for scrap ) to beautify interiors of parks, including Shilp Haat, in innovative ways such as planters, show structures like a wooden tree , a well etc.“I had spotted packaging material, wooden drums, discarded waste tyres lying around at waste sites in the city and planned to use them to beautify the parks and other places in creative ways across the city,” said Rajeev Tyagi, general manager, Noida Authority.According to Tyagi, Noida being an industrial city, receives a lot of wooden pallets which come in form of cargo packaging which are discarded and dumped. Hence the authority decided to utilise these as props to beautify the city.“Dumped packaging wood from industries like Samsung, LG, Holland Tractors etc. along with nails, metal objects, discarded cables etc. are usually sent in scrap. We have started segregating these and processing to remove nails and other metal objects from the wood to recycle as show objects in our beautification drive across the city,” said Tyagi.The result is a mock well with bucket as well as planters at Shilp Haat in sector 33 A. At other places such as parks etc. a tree structure is made from wooden pellets, vertical gardens and planters from discarded tyres have been created. “Using wooden planters made from discarded pellets is another way to fight air pollution,” said Tyagi who plans to replicate the pieces across different parts of the city."This is the start, we will be implementing these structures like planters, gazebo huts etc at other places in the city. We will display these structures during our upcoming flower show from February 22-24 at Noida Stadium," said Tyagi.While wooden pallets which were earlier picked up by scrap dealers from factories along with other waste materials and dumped at waste yards until further traded as wood for burning, or put to other temporary use, the authority used the same wooden pallets and created vertical gardens as well as planters from them. “Most structures are put up in Shilp Haat, while others we will be placing in the many parks across the city,” said Tyagi.