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Bihar School Accepts Plastic Waste As Fees, Provides Free Books & Meals!
Every morning, the premises of the Padampani School in Gaya’s Sevabigha village, are witness to a strange sight—students, dressed in their spick-and-span indigo blue uniforms, are seen dropping off...
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Odisha IAS Replaces Plastic Plates With Sal Leaf ‘Khali’, Empowers Tribal Women!
The district administration of Odisha’s Keonjhar has set an amazing precedent by deciding to replace all plastic bowls, bottles and cutlery in the collectorate with sustainable alternatives made out of...
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Can an Event For 10,000 People Be Zero-Waste? B’luru Lady Shares How She Did It!
Residents of Bengaluru are familiar with the bizarre phenomenon that Belandur lake displays every now and then, with froth overflowing onto the roads and neighbourhoods. This sight, a direct result of...
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Made of Plastic Waste, This Unique Greenhouse Will Help Ladakh Farmers Grow...
Ladakh, the cold desert of India with its picturesque and stark landscape, is one of the most visited tourist places in the country. Harsh winters make life tough for the populace, 89 per cent of which...
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Mumbai NGO Will Turn Your Donated Plastic Waste Into Pens, Bins & Benches!
“What difference can one plastic bottle make?” is what the entire population on the planet thinks. And each of those bottles is now choking up our ecosystem slowly. Researchers estimate that more than...
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Your Newspaper, Plastic Waste Can Fund Old Age Homes. Pune Folks Show How!
You must have heard of people making money from selling recycled cloth bags, upcycled discarded bottles and even the most basic waste item i.e. newspapers. But this old-age home is functioning on the...
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Chennai Couple Develop New Tech, Turn 150 Tons of Plastic Waste Into Low-Cost...
A single piece of plastic takes hundreds of years to decompose posing a threat to land and water. While it is not feasible to completely stop the manufacturing plastic, repurposing plastic waste can be...
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1 Kg of Rice For 1 Kg of Plastic: Telangana Collector Sets Up Unique Barter...
A school in Assam is accepting plastic waste as fees, a garbage café in Chhattisgarh is giving free meal in exchange of one kilo of plastic and Indian railways will soon charge phones on depositing a...
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Give Plastic, Get Rice: Cashew Trader’s Brilliant Initiative Gets 25,000...
Situated in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, Peddapuram is a small town waging a war on single-use plastic in an interesting way. The man behind the mission—30-year-old Naresh...
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Trying to Make Your Home Plastic-Free? This Ex-Panchayat Clerk’s Ideas Are...
After buying the products on his list in the busy market in Kozhikode, Kerala, Sankaran Moosad meticulously empties the contents of plastic packets full of spices, condiments, fruits and sugar into...
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Organic Food & Rainwater Harvesting: Chennai Woman’s Zero-Waste House is Goals
Two words that come to my mind when I think of the rooftop garden in Chennai’s Thiruvottriyur area are—uplifting and cheerful. The luscious garden thrives with 50 types of organic fruits, flowers and...
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Himachal IAS Uses 7000 Kgs of Plastic Waste To Make Benches, Roads & Toilet!
As India grapples with the massive volumes of plastic waste being generated every day, Sirmaur, a small district in Himachal Pradesh has come up with a creative solution to utilise this in the form of...
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5000+ Dehradun School Kids Collect 555 Kgs of Waste For Plastic Wapsi Abhiyaan!
With an intent to trigger a behavioural change in students, teachers, and families, Dehradun Smart City Limited (DSCL) has come up with an innovative way of tackling its plastic waste issue. Under its...
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Free Meals, T-shirts, Organic Manure: How 2 Municipalities Are Tackling Plastic
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently introduced innovative schemes to tackle plastic waste generation by using it as currency and...
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57-YO Retd Professor Takes On Sand Mafia, Leads Movement To Revive Krishna River
Roads littered with garbage, overflowing bins, the incessant honking of vehicles and a beloved river clogged with waste. This is the sight that welcomed Ajay Katragadda when he relocated to his...
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Recycling Is Not the Right Answer: Here’s Why You Need to Give up Plastic
In a matter of a little more than a hundred years since it was first invented, plastic has gone from being a boon to the bane of our time. The only way to deal with it now is to stop manufacturing it...
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Chennai Teens Convert Old Bedsheets, Distribute 1 Lakh Cloth Bags For Free
The Tamil Nadu government banned single-use plastics on 1 January 2019. But a year before this order came, two teen brothers had already started their fight against the all-pervading polythene bags....
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Pamphlets to Fallen Hair: Nagpur Woman Treats 90% of Her Waste In Just 5 Steps
For Shefali Dudhbade, managing her household waste is not an option, but a way of life. A freelance architect by profession and an environmentalist by heart, the 46-year-old from Nagpur is setting an...
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Town Residents Unite To Save Heritage, Clear Stunning 25 Tons of Waste From...
Scenario 1: You are walking barefoot on a pristine beach while staring at the faraway setting sun. You stand with your feet in the water and heave a sigh of relief as you feel the stress of the week...
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What Links Tamil Nadu to Australian Open? 25K Outfits Made From 1.8 Lakh PET...
It would take a countless years for 1.88 lakh waste PET bottles to perish, considering one bottle can take up to 500 years. The situation worsens when bottles which can be recycled are disposed of...
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Over 10,000 Impacted: IIT-ian Will Make Your Kid a Plastic-Free Champ in 1.5...
Despite the bans and fines, India’s 9.46 million tonne plastic problem cannot be solved just by regulations. Consumers too have make a contribution in terms of their plastic use. Single-use and...
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Kerala Techies Make Eco-friendly Papaya Straws That Last For 6 Months!
Using and throwing that plastic straw is such a trivial thing, no? How much time does it take anyway? A few seconds? Chucking that thin bit of nothing in the can and forgetting all about it. But the...
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These Women Quit Their IBM Jobs to Make Edible Cutlery That Can Save The Planet!
All of us have licked our halwa bowls, ice cream-covered spoons and even plates at some point. Since it is considered a bad table etiquette to lick our cutlery, we have been rightly reprimanded as...
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Pune Techie Uses Viral Trend to Collect 70 Tonnes of Waste in 8 Months!
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought our lives to a standstill. While most of us fret about coping with the new normal of working from home, an environment enthusiast in Pune has a slightly different...
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This Netflix-Like Subscription Can Make Your Society Zero-Waste for Just Rs 180
Siva Sankar, the founder of Noval India, believes that India’s waste management sector is primarily taken care of by two factions — earth-friendly NGOs that rely on volunteers to keep the surroundings...
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Jharkhand IAS Officer’s Water Harvesting Model is 99% Cheaper, Helps 8000...
35-year-old Laxman Mathur has been farming for the past 14 years in a small village called Pelaul, in the interiors of Khunti district, Jharkhand. Unlike his two elder brothers, he decided to continue...
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IIT-M Develops Wrapping Material That Can Prevent Food Contamination &...
A potentially game-changing innovation has arrived which could simultaneously address the twin problem of food contamination (particularly in packaged food), and plastic waste. Earlier this week, the...
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Walking For 6 Hours a Day, Odisha Group Clear 5 Tons of Beach Waste With Bare...
After a gap of one month, when meeting friends and relatives, Soumya Biswal and his five friends in Odisha faced a common question – “Why do you look tired, tanned and slimmer than usual?” Most could...
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Toilet Made of 8000 Plastic Bottles in Assam. IAS Officer Shares How You Can...
In Assam’s Bongaigaon district, more than 8,000 discarded waste plastic bottles have been used to construct a toilet. Authorised by the Deputy Commissioner Lakshmi Priya M S, who is a 2014 batch IAS...
View ArticleThis Environment Day, Know What India’s Single-Use Plastic Ban Means For You
India is looking to phase out its single-use plastics by 2025. But how will we manage to overcome this Herculean feat when the country consumes over 3.3 million metric tonnes of plastic a year? On 11...
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21-YO From Andhra Pradesh Designs Biodegradable Face Shield For Just Rs 15
In May 2020, as India grappled with the second wave of COVID-19, Pabolu Mohan Aditya, a mechanical engineering student at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, came across people who could not afford...
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One of India’s Largest FMCG Brands Is Doing Something Special with Toothpaste...
This article has been sponsored by Dabur The Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry, with a reach from essential to luxury products, is today the fourth largest industry in the Indian economy....
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Gurgaon-Based Brothers Make Bioplastic From Corn Starch That Composts in 6...
According to estimates by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), India’s national per capita plastic waste generation stands at 7.6 gm per day. The official CPCB study goes on to state that India...
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This FMCG Giant Is Pioneering Recycled Plastic Packaging for Liquid Cleaners
This article has been sponsored by Surf Excel In a recent report, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change stated that India generated more than 3.4 million metric tonnes of plastic...
View ArticleThis Brilliant 23-YO Is Turning Your Plastic Trash Into Shoes Worth Rs 7000
In a world that produces millions of plastic waste everyday, 23-year-old Ashay Bhave is recycling them to produce sneakers. The idea of converting plastic bags and bottles into shoes struck him in 2017...
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Entrepreneur Upcycles 20 Million Plastic Bags Into Fabric, Earns Rs 8 Lakh...
It was in the early 2000s when Nandan Bhat started trekking with his friends. Over some time, he noticed a change in the environment at many of the trekking sites he visited. He observed that several...
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Engineer’s Company in Germany Recycles Face Masks Into Innovative Screwdriver...
A plastic recycling workspace based out of Dresden, Germany is transforming used, disposable face masks into screwdriver sets. Johannplasto, founded by Thomas Peterberns in 2021, has been on a mission...
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Two ‘Accidental’ Environmentalists Are Turning 25 Lakh Tonnes of Plastic Into...
Every year, India witnesses 8 million tonnes of plastic waste that ends up in landfills. And the figures are only increasing. In a bid to make a difference, two Pune-based environmentalists, Dr Medha...
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ISB Grad Helps Large FMCG Brands Recycle Plastic Packaging & Reduce Waste
According to Union Environment Minister, Bhupender Yadav, India is generating approximately 3.5 million tonnes of plastic waste annually. Nearly half the manufactured plastic in India is used for...
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Hyderabad Startup Has Recycled Tonnes of Plastic Waste into 300 Million FMCG...
Banyan Nation, a Hyderabad-based vertically integrated plastic recycling company, recently announced that they produced over 300 million FMCG bottles from recycled plastic in the past year for major...
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Friends Innovate Device to Recycle Plastic; Design Benches Out of Waste for...
Sarfaraz Ali and Sakshi Jha met while organising an event for the Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad, where the latter studied. Over time, the duo collaborated on several events, which they...
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27-YO From France is Bali’s Full-Time ‘River Man’, Cleans 2 Tonnes Plastic...
Gary Bencheghib, among the four Ramon Magsaysay awardees of 2022, proves that no age is too young to start working on what you truly care about. He was only 14 when he, alongside siblings Kelly and...
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At This Unique Tea Stall, People Drop Off 50 Kg Waste/Month for a...
In a small tea shop located in Bisalpur, Uttar Pradesh, one can spot unique furniture like stools and tables made of bricks and recycled plastic. Other than customers, tourists who come to visit the...
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22-YO Turns Plastic Waste into Traditional Embroidery, Showcases at Lakme...
At home or on the streets, everywhere you turn, you are more than likely to find plastic in its various forms. The material is such a deep rooted part of human experience that eliminating even...
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Why People Don’t Pay For Their Nutritious Meals at This Junagadh Cafe Run By...
A cafe in Junagadh, Gujarat, does not ask you for money after your order, instead, it asks for plastic. Taking the term “plastic money’’ quite literally, the cafe accepts plastic as a form of payment...
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Startup by 2 Friends Has Turned Plastic Waste Into 300 Million FMCG Bottles
While pursuing his MBA and working at a multinational company, Mani Vajipey took a trip to India. He was astonished by the amount of waste generated in the country and disturbed by the growing filth...
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Brothers Save 700 KG of Chewing Gum Plastic from Polluting the Earth, Earn Lakhs
While it’s certainly not true that chewing gum takes seven years to digest, there’s no denying that it can have an adverse effect on not just your health, but also the environment. Regular chewing...
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Kerala Man Uses Innovative Idea to Remove 650 Kg Plastic Waste in 4 Months
Kerala’s Binu Punchakkari is single-handedly fighting to save Vellayani Lake from plastic waste. The lake is the primary source of drinking water for at least five panchayats, yet no one showed...
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‘My Pet Can Eat My Plate’: Brothers Use Waste From Rice Farming to Make...
Paddling up to the wave on Kovalam Beach in Kerala every Sunday helped Rishabh Suri find the motivation to improve his sport. However, as he enjoyed surfing, he found himself in a weird situation....
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Why a Doctor Built This Plastic Home Using 13 Tonnes of Chips Packets,...
Located in the botanical garden of Chandrapur, Maharashtra, is a unique two-storey house that opens up to a large hall, a bedroom, and a staircase that leads to the first floor — where there’s a small...
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