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India’s Online E-Waste Marketplace Allows Companies to Trade Waste and Manage...
A digital market place where one can trade waste as a commodity is now live in India. Launched by a startup called Eco eMarket, this platform is meant to trade electronic, paper, plastic, and textile...
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Bellandur Lake Fire: 5 Ways India Can Revive Its Polluted Urban Water Bodies
The Bellandur Lake in Bengaluru is on fire again — for the third time in six months. Known for its carpet of toxic froth and filth that spills on the adjoining road, it has now become a common sight to...
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In Their 50s, This Couple Cycled 1,000 Km in 10 Days to Spread an Important...
When it comes to waste management in India, there is little knowledge about how to do it. But Sanjeeta Singh Negi and Piyush Shah, both in their fifties, have pledged to create awareness in an...
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Agriculture Dept Comes to the Rescue, Will Convert Bengaluru’s Waste Into...
Bengaluru’s long-running struggle with waste management comes one step closer to a sustainable solution. The state’s Agriculture Department has offered to collect the city’s garbage and convert it to...
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These 12-Year-Old Boys Managed to Collect & Recycle over 1 Tonne of Dry Waste...
A group of 12-year-old boys studying in different schools has taken up the mission “Think and Throw”, wherein they urge people to segregate wet & dry waste and collect dry waste for recycling....
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This Popular Indian Blogger Is Showing How Trash Can Turn Into Jewellery
What can you do with a stainless steel scrub pad, besides giving your utensils a thorough scouring? Are mops meant to do any more than cleaning? Everyday objects have a way of landing up in the trash...
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How to Have an Eco-Friendly yet Chic Wedding? We Have 10 Simple & Awesome...
Earlier this February, Goa announced that it may be considering imposing restrictions — and a ban in some cases — on beach weddings. Hosting 800 big weddings a year, the state’s coastline is reportedly...
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7 Easy Ways You Can Replace Plastic in Your Daily Life With Eco-Friendly Options
Jharkhand has become the newest Indian state to initiate a ban on polythene bag usage. Plastic is ubiquitous in our lives — not only as bags, it is found in our utensils, household items, and sometimes...
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TBI Blogs: Learn How a Village in UP Is Cleaning up Menstrual Waste...
Menstruation and menstrual waste are still taboo topics in many parts of India, especially in rural areas. Amidst this environment, a small village in Uttar Pradesh has taken a huge progressive towards...
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This Low-Cost Technology Is Helping a Puducherry Village Treat Its...
In recent years, several Indian villages have embarked upon a journey of sustainable transformation that causes as little impact on the environment as possible. One such village is Chinna Kalapet in...
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Learn the Art of Composting in Your Home & Watch Your Kitchen Waste Turn to...
Our garbage problems have become so big that TS Eliot’s famous poem, The Wasteland, could well be taken literally. As plastic sinks into oceans and landfills are choked with sanitary waste, it’s time...
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Underprivileged Women in Chandigarh Upcycle Dry Waste to Make a Living,...
Project Navriddhi in Chandigarh aims to kill two birds with one stone: offer a source of income to women from underprivileged backgrounds and tackle the issue of dry waste in the city through...
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These Brilliant Waterless and Odourless Urinals Help with Agriculture Too!
Waterless and odour-free urinals developed by these IIT Delhi alumni serve two purposes for the environment: help save water and harvest urine for agriculture. Most toilets use 10 litres of water for a...
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Garbage ATMs? These ‘Smart’ Dustbins Developed in Nashik Can Reward Users...
Four young men from Nashik came up with a unique idea in a bid to further their efforts to keep the country litter-free - maybe they could entice people into disposing waste in waste-bins if they could...
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In a Laudable Move, Maharashtra Will Convert Leftovers From Expressway Food...
Anyone who has travelled via the many highways of India would be immediately familiar with the hundreds of food malls and restaurants that line these roads, catering to a wide range of travellers. It...
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How to Purify & Recycle Wastewater From Your Home While Also Creating a...
Human beings are recommended to drink 8-10 glasses of water every day. But our consumption of water isn’t limited simply to drinking it. Take a minute to observe your household. Washing clothes and...
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This Village in Maharashtra Used Its Plastic Waste To Solve Its Water Woes!
Walni village in Nagpur is using its plastic waste as a solution to its water shortage by making it into plastic sheets for rain water harvesting. When farmers in Walni village in Maharashtra’s Nagpur...
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How You Can Turn the Flowers You Use for Worship Everyday Into Soaps,...
Travelling via the Western Line on Mumbai’s local train gradually introduces travellers to a regular phenomenon. As the train crosses over Mahim Creek, passengers — particularly in the ladies...
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Best of Waste: This Mumbai-Based Startup Transforms Vinyl Records & CDs into...
The Upcycle Co. turns waste vinyl records & CDs into quirky and useful lifestyle products. It’s been decades since VCR tapes and vinyl records became passé and CDs were the coolest thing in the...
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How Simple Plumbing Hacks Helped This Bengaluru Family Cut Its Water Bills by...
“I have always been aware of the problem of water scarcity,” says Vinodkumar Saxena sitting in the living room of his home in Bengaluru’s Koramangala neighbourhood. An import-export consultant, he was...
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