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The document discusses the transformation of India United Mill No.1 in Mumbai into a Textile Recycling and Awareness Campus to address the city's significant textile waste crisis. It highlights the need for public awareness and sustainable disposal options, proposing educational and interactive spaces to foster a culture of sustainability. The project aims to balance heritage with progress, turning the mill into a symbol of change and resourcefulness in urban waste management.

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The document discusses the transformation of India United Mill No.1 in Mumbai into a Textile Recycling and Awareness Campus to address the city's significant textile waste crisis. It highlights the need for public awareness and sustainable disposal options, proposing educational and interactive spaces to foster a culture of sustainability. The project aims to balance heritage with progress, turning the mill into a symbol of change and resourcefulness in urban waste management.

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“New ideas must use old buildings.

” -Jane Jackobs

Nestled in the heart of Lower Parel, Mumbai — where luxury towers now punctuate the skyline
— stands the decaying silhouette of India United Mill No.1, once a roaring symbol of India’s
textile revolution. Today, its 20-acre expanse is silent. Crumbling walls, rusted machinery, and
dense overgrowth speak volumes of a past forgotten, even as Mumbai chokes on a growing
crisis: textile waste.

Mumbai generates over 120–150 tonnes of textile waste per day, much of it ending up in
landfills or being burned, contributing to carbon emissions and groundwater contamination.
Across India, this figure reaches 1 million tonnes annually, of which only a fraction is recycled.
Cities like Panipat are well known for their recycling capabilities, but their efforts begin only
after waste is collected, segregated, and processed — a step that most metros like Mumbai lack.
Public awareness is staggeringly low. A 2022 survey by Circular Apparel Innovation Factory
found that over 80% of urban consumers in Mumbai are unaware of sustainable disposal
options for clothing, and less than 5% participate in any form of textile recycling or donation
regularly.

This project proposes a bold transformation of the abandoned mill into a Textile Recycling and
Awareness Campus — a space where waste becomes resource, history becomes narrative, and
community becomes co-creator. The core function of the campus will be the pre-production
recycling unit: collection, sorting, sanitizing, shredding, and bailing textile waste before it is
dispatched to Panipat’s post-production clusters.

However, this is not just an industrial retrofit. The mill becomes an urban storyteller — one that
educates, activates, and inspires. A Museum of Textile Waste will showcase innovations in
upcycled design and trace the lifecycle of discarded fabrics. Interactive learning spaces for
schools, DIY upcycling workshops for locals, amphitheatres for public discourse, and
recreational zones — all will work in a rythm to foster a civic culture of sustainability.

The design embodies a balance between heritage and progress, between the environmental
urgency of today and the cultural memory of yesterday. This project is not just an architectural
intervention — it is a call to rethink how cities handle what they discard, and how forgotten
places can become engines of sustainability and social impact.

At a time when Indian cities are struggling with spatial inequality, environmental degradation,
and identity loss, this project argues for architecture as both a solution and a story — where
waste is not an end, but a beginning. India United Mill No.1 shall rise again, not as a factory of
consumption, but as a factory of change.

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