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Donate Scrap & Fund Your Favourite Cause: Mumbai Duo Raises Rs 20 Lakh in 4...
Growing up, collecting newspapers at home and stacking them neatly was one of my favourite things to do. My vested interests lay not as much in the content, but the little change (literal) the pile...
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75 Bengaluru Kids come Together to Make Environment-Friendly ‘Tree Ganesha’!
While we all enjoy celebrating festivals, doing so in a responsible manner is the way for a sustainable future. According to Toxics Link, a non-profit focused on pollution, approximately 1,00,000...
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IIT Hyderabad Scientists Find Cheap &‘Blue’ Way to 3D-Print Stem Cells With...
You might think it’s your skeleton that holds your body together, but in actuality, it’s collagen—well, at least at the cellular level! Collagen is the protein that keeps your skin taut and teeth...
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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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Chennai Couple Collects Discarded Bottles, Upcycles Them Into Gorgeous Art
‘One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.’ The above phrase is a cliché, yes, but also incredibly apt for 29-year-old Vidya Bhat and her husband Sushrutha KS, who have been working with discarded...
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Plastic Bottles to Discarded Tyres: Forest Officer Upcycles Waste Into...
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle – these are the fundamentals of waste management. If we all practise this in earnestness, then the scope is endless. 37-year-old Range Officer Papan Mohanta from Midnapore in...
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Get Paid For Your Trash: B’luru Startup Collects Waste Right At Your Doorstep
In 2014, Bengaluru-based Naveen Mariyan started a project, ReUse, intending to collect and recycle the trash from corporations, apartments and individuals. “About a year ago, I visited an apartment...
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This Telangana Man Can Help You Use Kitchen Waste to Cut LPG Costs by 80%!
In 2014, Telangana-based Harshavardhan Erra, who had worked in various capacities in departments such as India Post and the Food Corporation of India, decided to quit his government job with one...
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B’luru Startup Helps Track Your Water Usage & Automates Your Motor Switch!
Not so long ago, Chinnayya Math, a resident of Sarjapur, Bengaluru, and his family, used to be heavily dependent on water tankers for their water needs. If you happen to live in Bengaluru, this is a...
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3 Friends Collect Old Jeans, Upcycle Them Into Bags & Slippers For 1200 Needy...
Did you know that manufacturing one pair of jeans, takes up around 8,000 litres of water? Every year millions of pairs are discarded by households across India and taking into account the country’s...
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Now Your Old Laptop Can Help Grow Plants, Thanks to This Retd. Naval Commander!
Is it any surprise that e-waste is a grim issue in IT hubs like Bengaluru, where large piles of electronic waste accumulate every hour? Worldwide, only around 5 per cent of these are recycled. Some 95...
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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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Shoes, Tyres & Toilet Seats in This Tamil Nadu Dumpyard Now House a Mini Forest!
One man’s trash is another man’s art – how true is that! And coupling this pearl of wisdom with their concerted effort, the Naravarikuppam Town Panchayat in Tamil Nadu has managed to convert a dumpyard...
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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 neighborhoods. This sight, a direct result of...
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How an Organic Farmer Doubled His Farm Output, Saved Rs 4 Lakh/Year!
Everyone has tried their hands at converting waste into something useful during the art and craft classes at school, (best out of waste, remember?). Reused ice-cream sticks turned to photo frames or...
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Gurugram Teen Collects Milk Pouches & Old Plastic, Gives Upcycled Stationery...
Did you know that the plastic pouches used to sell milk account for a third of the branded plastic waste that is generated in most of our cities? In Gurugram alone, 2.60 crore milk pouches are thrown...
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Bengaluru’s KIA Airport Wants You to Donate Plastic Waste To Them. Here’s Why
At a time when everyone is saying no to plastic, Kempegowda Airport operator, Bangalore International Airport Private Limited (BIAL) has launched a campaign called #PlasticBeku (Want Plastic), asking...
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Girl Quits US Job, Helps Turn 12000 Tons of Waste Into 600+ Tons of Cooking Gas!
When Shruti Ahuja left her cushy job in the United States to bring about a positive change in India, little did she know that one day, her work could be a game changer in the waste management industry....
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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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Engineer Gifts Dustbins; Prompts 1000+ Uttarakhand Villagers to Clean Their...
The Dhari Devi temple stands tall on a chassis of pillars, in the middle of the sprightly Alakananda river, and hundreds of devotees walk on the stone bridge which connects the mainland to the shrine,...
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