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IAS Officer Has The Best ‘Return Gift’ For Those Who Dump Garbage on Street...
Andhra Pradesh’s Kakinada city Municipal Commissioner, IAS Swapnil Pundkar, has devised a rather innovative method to deal with the city’s garbage littering issue. Here, after due verification of...
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Friends Turn Recycled Plastic into Furniture, Decor; Earn Rs 1 Crore in...
Madhur N Rathi, would’ve never thought that one conference on waste management during his MBA days would change his life for the better. Wanting to live a life of sustainability, he roped in three of...
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Bengaluru Startup Gives Old Batteries New Life, Repurposes Them to Power...
Bill Gates once wrote, “Energy poverty is real poverty.” And rightly so. From powering lights for work and study to running motors and machines and even the internet — all require electric energy....
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5 Fascinating Enterprises at the Forefront of the Zero Food Waste Movement
This article has been sponsored by DBS Bank India For decades now, India has been grappling with the issue of hunger and inadequate nutrition. Hence, it was no surprise when the Global Hunger Index,...
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Social Enterprise Processes 60,000 Tonnes of Food Waste, Empowers 500 Waste...
This article has been sponsored by DBS Bank India Ignorance is not really blissful when it culminates in a toxic affair. This fact holds particularly true in the case of waste management in India....
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Bengaluru Woman Makes Giant Christmas Installation Using Upcycled Scrap Material
In the spirit of Christmas, many homes are lit up with festive cheer — bright and colourful lights, lushly decorated trees, and a bright star that symbolises hope adorn the front doors of many houses....
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This Mumbaikar Has Grown 116 Plants on A Terrace For 20 Years
Preeti Patil from Mumbai is lobbying for “skyscraper architects to redesign buildings, especially rooftops, to increase green spaces”. Her plea stems from nearly 20 years of commitment to her passion....
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Mumbai Firm Recycles 7200 Tons of E-Waste Yearly, Launches Free App For Home...
Editor’s Note: The article originally listed the firm as recycling ‘7200 Million Tonnes’ of e-waste. This was a typo. The company recycles ‘7200 Metric Tonnes’ of e-waste. The article has been updated...
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When an Experiment Introduced Bengalureans to their Invisible & Invaluable...
This article has been published in partnership with BBC Media Action. Do you have friends? We know the question sounds weird. But take a moment and think about that person who is consistently there...
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Gardener Shares How To Recycle Old Denim Pants Into Planters In 5 Easy Steps
While terrace gardening keeps us busy and allows us to grow organic produce, many worry that this is an expensive hobby. This is because purchasing new plants, organic potting mixes, fancy planters and...
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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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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...
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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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