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Win-Win! Telangana Street Vendors Get India’s First Kiosks Made From Plastic...
Abhijit (name changed) is relieved and excited about his new study space. The class four student speeds his way to the new grocery shop his parents own as soon after school ends. A resident of Sircilla...
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B’luru Folk Help 25 Street Vendors Ditch Plastic Bags & Straws, Keep Profits...
My walk to my office pauses at a fruit vendor every day so that I can buy a plateful of colourful fruits for my colleague. He packs the mixed fruits in a thermocol bowl that he places inside a plastic...
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Kashmir To Kanyakumari, 50 Cities & 2.5 Lakh Indians Set For India’s Largest...
Taking the concept of ‘My Garbage, My Responsibility’ to a whole new level, plogging is aggressively becoming a fitness fad across the world. The act of picking up trash while jogging to clean up the...
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Give Plastic Waste, Get Free Meal: Chhattisgarh Gets India’s 1st ‘Garbage...
How does a city solve its hunger and plastic waste problem at the same time? Ambikapur is a city with a population of just under two lakhs, located in Chattisgarh’s Surguja district. In an attempt to...
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Karnataka College Upcycles 700 Plastic Bottles Into Stunning Hanging Garden!
If you take a stroll at any time of the day on a street in India, chances are you will find at least one used plastic bottle lying around. For Shivanand Hongal, a professor in the College of...
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Delhi School Bans Disposable Plastic, Harvests Sun & Rain To Save Rs 10...
For children, parents are the first and immediate teachers, teaching them values that play an integral role in determining their character, habits, and lifestyle choices. But for Aban Gandhi, mother of...
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No Plastic Sachets: Odisha District Sets Up Vending Machine For Fortified Milk!
Intending to do away with plastic pouch menace, companies and state governments are coming up with Milk ATMs where a user can put in money and procure milk in their containers, thus eliminating the...
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Bartan Banks to Copper ‘Lotas’ in Govt Offices: Indore Municipality Shows The...
Earlier this year, Indore earned the title of India’s cleanest city for the third time. To keep up the good work, the Municipal Corporation of the city has now taken a step towards eliminating...
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Bengaluru Man Turns Castor Stems Into Eco-Straws, Gives Them to Vendors For Free
As per a study published earlier this year, close to 8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the world’s beaches. The IT city is not far behind in making its contribution where 20 per cent of solid waste...
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5 Initiatives That Show How Plastic Barter Systems Are Booming In India
I am sure you have traded books, clothes, toys, and other knick-knacks with your sibling or friend, at some point in time. Formally termed as ‘bartering,’ this exchange of goods and services, has been...
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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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