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3 Friends & A WhatsApp Group Teach Gardening & Composting to Thousands for Free
For Mumbai resident Amol Palshetkar, Friday mornings bring a different kind of joy. When the day begins, he is among the thousands who sit down to learn composting, potting and more, all through...
View ArticleHomemaker Upcycles Bulbs, Basins to Create Lush Home Garden with Over 1000...
It was in 2013 that Ghaziabad-resident Ruchi Goel tried her hands at gardening for the first time. As someone with no prior experience or interest in the activity, the homemaker’s only intention then...
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Kanpur Startup Helps Villages Segregate & Recycle 900 KG Waste With Unique...
In 2015, Nitin Srivastava was working in waste water management in a corporate. Having done a Master’s in environmental engineering, he was keen on developing solutions to pressing problems using...
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60-YO Turns 200 KG of E-Waste Into Stunning Works of Art; Sells Across the World
For Bangalorean Vishwanath Mallabadi Davangere, there is no such thing as a useless object or ‘waste’. Give him anything — discarded metal or plastic items, old gadgets, dysfunctional printed circuit...
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ScrapUncle: 25-YO’s Startup That Threw ‘Sharks’ Into Bidding War & Bagged Rs...
Do you remember the arguments your mother had with the kabadiwala (scrap dealer) on a busy cleaning day, arguing about the rate for old newspapers and plastic knick-knacks? A 25-year-old from Delhi...
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18-YO Uses 4 Lakh Plastic Bags, Foundry Waste To Build India’s First...
This article has been sponsored by Wingify Earth. At first glance, the colourful igloo-shaped structure at Amritsar’s international airport parking lot seems like an art installation with eye-catching...
View Article24-YO Makes Shoes From Plastic & Rubber Waste; Recycles 50000 Plastic Bags,...
In 2017, an idea took root in the mind of Ashay Bhave (24), who was then still a student pursuing his bachelor’s degree in business administration. He thought of converting plastic bags and bottles...
View ArticleCould Selling Scrap Land You a Rs 60 Lakh Deal? It Did For a 22-YO Delhi...
Most of us have spent hours bargaining with the kabadiwalas. 25-year-old Mukul Chhabra is making selling our junk easier. Founded in 2019, ScrapUncle recently won a Shark Tank deal, throwing the...
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5 Lessons On How I Set Up a Multi-Crore Business That Saves 500 Tonnes Floral...
What does it take to start afresh in your career? For 34-year-old Bharat Bansal, it was a strong sense of inspiration that he took from his own growing years in Delhi, watching the Yamuna River get...
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At 62, This Artist Is On a Mission to Help TN Women Earn By Upcycling Coconut...
In 2014 when her husband died, Kanyakumari’s Arokia Anet was left in despair and had two children to raise by herself. To make ends meet, she started working as a construction labourer at a daily wage...
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Mumbaikar Helps 220 Housing Societies Cut Waste by 70%, Earn Money From...
Mumbai-based Kedar Sohoni’s decision to focus on his health has been good in more ways than one. A step he took towards living a clean and sustainable lifestyle has led to hundreds of societies across...
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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...
View ArticleGovt to Amend India’s Plastic Waste Management Rules; What it Means & How You...
With an aim to minimise plastic generation, ensure non-littering and proper segregation of plastic waste, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change introduced the Plastic Waste Management...
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IIT-Roorkee Alumni Use Insects to Upcycle a Ton of Food Waste/Week Into...
Loopworm, a Bengaluru-based agri-biotech startup, is engaged in the farming of Black Soldier Fly (BSF) Larvae that converts food waste to produce premium animal feed and pet food. Founded right out of...
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21-YO With Sign Boards on Ladakh Streets Is Helping Change How Residents...
The Union Territory of Ladakh, with its exponential rise in tourist footfall, is grappling with the problem of waste disposal. The locals, on the other hand, get rid of their garbage by burning it. The...
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UK Startup Develops World’s First Biodegradable Plastic That Can Be Recycled Too
A UK based technology startup, Polymateria, has developed a ground-breaking innovation that aims to tackle global plastic pollution. The company has come up with a technology that alters the properties...
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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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IISc Researchers’ Idea Can Turn India’s Dumped Solar Panels Into Sustainable...
By 2030, the Government of India believes that solar energy will contribute almost 300 gigawatts (GW) to its renewable energy target of 450 GW. Given how solar energy ranks amongst the cheapest forms...
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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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Man Helps Fortune 500 Companies & Apartments Recycle E-Waste, Earns Crores
E-waste is a problem entrepreneur Raj Kumar recognised way back in 2010 when he was working in the IT sector. Raj started his career in the IT industry in 1996. By 2005, he had already founded his...
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Couple Recycles 10000 Tonnes of Waste Every Month, Helps 800 Farmers Earn More
The news of multiple farmer suicides in Mandya, Karnataka, in 2015 shook Divya Shetty. Hailing from a family of farmers, it touched a raw nerve as her grandfather, also a farmer, died by suicide when...
View ArticleHow to Grow Capsicum in Plastic Bottles Upcyled Into Hanging Planters
From a colourful salad ingredient to pizza topping, the crisp, crunchy capsicum is a delightful, refreshing food. Available in several colours and varieties, it lights up the plate and offers many...
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‘Found my Kids Playing With Plastic Trash at a Beach So I Cleaned Up 650...
“The weirdest thing I’ve found at a beach while cleaning up has been a human skull,” says Lisbon Ferrao, a marketing professional whose passion, and side venture for many years now has been cleaning...
View ArticleProfessor Turns Scrap Cars Into Stunning Sculptures Installed Across India
Creating the most out of waste is Srinivas Padakandla’s motto in life. Living by it, he creates beautiful sculptures from automobile metal scraps. Working as a fine art teacher in the University...
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What It Takes to Make a Delhi Colony 100% ‘Zero-Waste’
When was the last time you saw a sparrow? The once-abundantly found species have responded to urban areas’ deteriorating environmental state by deserting them. The decrease in the availability of...
View ArticleStartup Tackles India’s Plastic Pollution One Wrapper at a Time; Earns Rs 70...
Pune-based social enterprise reCharkha is upcycling plastic waste into bags, table mats, home decor items and other products, while also reviving artistic skills. To date, they have upcycled 7 lakh...
View Article4 Friends Turn 5000 kg Plastic Waste into Furniture That Can be Recycled Again
In 2017, four friends from Amravati, Maharashtra, pitched in Rs 5 lakh each to build a venture that aimed to minimise the amount of plastic waste produced in the country. It all started while Madhur N...
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‘Aiming for 100% Recycling’: Meet the Team Managing Noida Twin Tower...
On Sunday, the Supertech Twin Towers in Noida were demolished in just 12 seconds. Thousands gathered to view the demolition, which left behind a mountain of debris — estimated at 30,000 tonnes...
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Homemaker Upcycles Junk Bikes, Bulbs, Basins to Create Fairytale Garden in UP
Till 2013, Ghaziabad resident Ruchi Goel had never tried her hands at growing even a single plant, even though her mother nurtured a charming garden in their home when she was growing up. “Even my...
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Designer Upcycles 200 KG Waste/Month into Keepsakes & Decor; Helps Women Earn...
Fashion designer Meenakshi Sharma describes her venture as one that translated from “a deep respect for the planet”. The 34-year-old is the founder of Use Me Works, an upcycling venture that she has...
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Delhi Couple Converts 3M Litres of Used Cooking Oil from Eateries into Biodiesel
In 2019, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the country’s statutory regulator, announced that restaurants or eateries could no longer reuse cooking oil more than three times....
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Students Collect Over 30 KG Waste Plastic Bottles To Make DIY Hydroponics...
A bottle of chilled cold drink during a sultry summer day seems like a harmless idea when considered in isolation. But what if we told you that one million such bottles are purchased every minute...
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17-YO’s Startup Recycles 10 Tonnes of Plastic Everyday, Turning it into Fabric
In 2019, reports estimated that over 3.3 million metric tonnes of plastic wound up in landfills across India. However, to reduce the burden on the environment, Aditya Banger (17) a resident of...
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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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Brothers Extract Gold & Silver From E-Waste, Save 100000 Metric Tonnes Of Carbon
A common phrase says ‘curiosity killed the cat’, but in the case of brothers Rohan and Nitin Gupta, it did quite the opposite. Here, curiosity led to a life-changing development, which further...
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At a Pune Factory, 6,000 Tonnes of ‘Ghost Nets’ Are Being Turned Into Surfing...
I recently watched a Netflix documentary Seaspiracy, which emphasised the much-ignored problem of plastic waste caused due to fishing nets. It was terrifying to learn that the great Pacific garbage...
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IT Engineer Uses Charkha to Upcycle 700000 Plastic Wrappers into Beautiful...
Mahatma Gandhi once deployed the use of charkha or spinning wheel as an important tool to boycott foreign-made products and promote indigenous clothing. Seven decades later, a software engineer from...
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From Planters to Pet Bed: 10 Useful Things To Make Out of Worn-out Tyres
Playing with worn-out tyres of bicycles, bikes or cars might evoke a sense of nostalgia in everyone but ever wonder what happened to all those tyres? India produces around 6,50,000 tyres and discards...
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‘How I Turned My College Project Into Assam’s 1st Biomedical Waste Plant’
As an academic requirement, I took up a research project on different topics during my graduation and Masters programmes. But as soon as I passed the exams, I dumped my report. And here is an engineer...
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21-YO Entrepreneur Turns Waste From 160 Temples Into Beautiful Idols, Artefacts
A self-power generating walking stick, a smart irrigation sprinkler, a wind harnessing machine are a few innovations by young Akash Singh from Uttar Pradesh. Hailing from a small village near Jewar in...
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Entrepreneur Turns Old Seat Belts Into Bags That Are a Hit in Japan, Germany
Amid an increased emphasis on recycling to protect the environment, here is a man making it a reality, albeit with a unique approach. Gurugram-based Gautam Malik, with his sustainable startup Jaggery...
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Chennai’s New Superheroes Turned This Small Town Green with Their Amazing...
Situated around 25 km from Chennai, Chitlapakkam is a small town with a population of around 60,000 people. What set the residents of this town apart are their efforts to improve their community by...
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Ex-Engineer’s Low-Cost Solution Helps Recycle Greywater at Home in 6 Easy Steps
Did you know that 31 billion litres of greywater are generated every day in India? Amid the absence of cost-effective wastewater recycling systems, gallons of greywater end up polluting water...
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How Do Brands Manage Plastic Waste? Entrepreneur’s Credits System Cuts 45000...
Do you remember how you spent your free time in Class 12? Most of us spent it playing sports like football, cricket, or badminton, whereas some dedicated students used that time to study for the board...
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BYOB: Friends Turn 7 Lakh Glass Bottles into Quirky Art & Home Decor
Gayatri Fabian, based in Bengaluru, affectionately labels herself as a hoarder, expressing her fondness for collecting items, particularly bottles. “I can never have enough of them. I would go to...
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5 Friends Make it Possible for Scrap Dealers To Sell Waste Directly to...
After collecting scrap from households and small shops on nearby streets, Rajvardhan Reddy segregates the waste so that it can be packed and sent for recycling. Instead of selling it to local...
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Startup’s Unique Tech Can Turn 10 Tonnes of Wet Waste Into Compost In Just 8...
As per government estimates dating back to 2021, India generates more than 62 million tonnes of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), of which approximately 75-80% gets collected. Of the amount of MSW...
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‘Maka Naka Plastic’: One Man’s Mission to Make Goa Plastic Free
As per a Central Pollution Control Board report, Goa, the smallest Indian state, has the highest per capita income but also produces the most plastic waste per person. In 2019-20, it ranked first in...
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Kerala Scientist’s Innovation Gives Apartments An Affordable & Scientific Way...
Where do you dispose of CFL bulbs, old batteries, or even kitchen waste? Without any segregation, tonnes of this waste end up piling in landfills contributing to an already aggravated climate crisis....
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