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Mom & Daughter Turn Waste to Wealth With These Eye-Catching, Hand-Painted...
Mother and daughter Riti Jain Dhar and Maanya Dhar have been upcycling old, broken, and discarded items by hand-painting them, giving them a new lease on life. “We live in a world that believes in...
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18-YO Goes Back to Her Village for a Holiday, Ends up Staying Back to Clean It
In just 50 days, Chesta Gulechha (18) went from being called the ‘mad city girl’ to one who has the potential to stand for the local elections contested in the village. So, what did she do in 50 days...
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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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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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