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How IIT-B’s Zero-Chemical Tech to Treat Wastewater Is Impacting Millions!
How often do we acknowledge the importance of water? I, for one, have always considered it a resource that is easily available. The north-east, where I belong, has always received enough rainfall,...
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Junk to Value: Hyderabad Startup Will Collect Waste From Your Doorstep and...
Last weekend was a very productive one for me. As I went about cleaning my house inch by inch, the pile of waste also grew rapidly. By the end, I have to admit that my house looked spectacular but, I...
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Bengaluru Society Cleans up Right, Turns Garbage Pile Into Organic Veggie Garden
What do you do when a pile of garbage near your house goes from being an eyesore to a health risk for you and your family? What do you do when the authorities do not address your complaints for the...
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Experts Answer: How 100+ Families Living In a Gated Complex Can Compost Their...
##QA-TP2## We often receive emails from our readers, asking doubts about their experiments with sustainable living. So, here’s a section dedicated to you – TBI’s ‘agony aunt’ for all things green. In...
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Fair-Trade to Upcycling: Here’s How Karnival is All a Sustainable Shopper Needs
Sustainability has a new address, if you’re looking to buy things online. For the eco-conscious consumer, there’s no better place to shop than Karnival, the e-commerce website of The Better India. From...
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Fruit Waste Could Give Cheap Organic Fertilisers in 90 Days. Punjab Farmers...
A year ago Vipesh Garg, the Budhlada Horticulture department Officer, proposed an idea to curb the massive wastage of Kinnow fruit in Mansa district of Punjab. Little did he know that his solution was...
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Give This Pune Woman Old Clothes & She’ll Give Upcycled Bags, Blankets in...
Rajashree, a former domestic help, does not forget to count her blessings at each turn of a new day. She has more time to spend with her family and take care of herself. Her hands, which used to be...
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Experts Answer: How to Make Organic Compost & Fertilisers at Home
##QA-TP2## We often receive emails from our readers, asking doubts about their experiments with sustainable living. So, here’s a section dedicated to you – TBI’s ‘agony aunt’ for all things green. This...
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Mumbai Society Recycled 5 Lakh Kg of Waste in 5 Years, Sets Major Green Goals!
A decade ago, the Vijaynagar Housing Society in Andheri East, Mumbai, was a simple 60-year-old apartment complex, comprising of chawls that housed nearly 2000 residents. But change came in 2010 when...
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Kerala Man’s Self-Sustaining 10 Acre Farm Gobbles Up the Waste of An Entire...
PM Illias from the Pulickal Panchayat in Malappuram, Kerala has been innately connected to nature since his childhood. Wanting to carve out a piece of heaven for himself, he began cultivating a forest...
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Sikkim Teacher Upcycles 85,000 Plastic Packets Into 6100 Book Covers,...
Lomas Dhungel, a 35-year-old science and mathematics teacher at the Government Senior Secondary School in Sikkim’s Makha village, is a man on a mission. In 2015, under his project ‘Hariyo Makha–Sikkim...
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Thane Engineers Innovate Composting Unit That Is 50% Cheaper & Runs On Solar...
Did you know that composting can prevent up to 60 per cent of your household waste from ending up inside a landfill? Whether done at the individual household or community level, the process of...
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Pune Duo Fashion Old Sarees into Stunning Quilts, Help 30 Rural Women Earn a...
Godhdi, a multi-coloured quilt made of repurposed old sarees and dupattas, is an integral part of the Indian culture passed from one generation to another. As soon as the nip in the air would herald...
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Startup’s Zero-Power Tech Converts 59 Million Litres of Sewage into Reusable...
It may be something as small as discarding a cigarette butt on the road or as huge as torching a forest, but if you look around, you will find at least one way in which we have harmed the environment....
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Meet the Man Who Upcycled Shipping Containers to Build a Cool College Cafe!
With The Positive Collective, The Better India’s COVID-19 coverage is available to regional language publications for free. Write to editorial@thebetterindia.com for more details. Every building has a...
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Grow a Garden With Greywater From Your Kitchen, Bathroom. Expert Shares How
Indukanth Ragade stops me mid-sentence when I ask about greywater treatment for garden plants. “There is no such concept,” he asserts, “The greywater from your household need not be treated for...
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Ahmedabad Startup Develops AI Robot That Segregates 5 Tonnes of Waste In An Hour
Every piece of plastic ever made still exists and may continue to do so for the next 500 years if we do not reduce its usage. Of course, recycling is the first option that governments across the world...
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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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Made Using 100% Waste, These Bricks Cost Just Rs 10 & Are 250% Stronger!
If you’re thinking of building your dream home, your first thought will be about bricks. India is the second-largest brick manufacturer in the world, with the Indo-Gangetic plains producing more than...
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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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