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Using Just Bath and Kitchen Waste Water, This Chennai Man Nurtures Around 300...
India is not a water deficient country, but the amount of water that goes wasted or untreated every day, the country has a bleak future ahead in the cards. From every dripping tap that can be fixed to...
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Plastic Bottles to Build Toilets: How One Architect is Solving Two of India’s...
Did you know the Indian cricket team’s jerseys are made from recycled PET bottles? To be precise – 33 bottles make a single outfit, jersey and bottom included. Recycled plastic is a versatile material,...
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Time to Drink Your Recycled Water! This Bengaluru Firm Will Make It Happen!
Benjamin Franklin once said, “When the well is dry, we will know the worth of water”. With its population expanding on an exponential scale, it wouldn’t be long before India becomes a water-scarce...
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Instead of Waiting for the Govt, These Mumbai Kids Clear Garbage By Themselves
It takes courage to go against the flow, and in this case, against the accumulation of tons of waste in and around Turbhe, Navi Mumbai, which was steadily becoming unlivable. Students of Samta Hindi...
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Furniture From Recycled Tyres! The Innovative Hyderabad Couple Behind This...
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has opened a Give and Share Kiosk right opposite the Oracle office in Shilparamam. It’s an eco-friendly booth made of recycled pet bottles, while the...
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Kalpakkam Engineers Develop Sewage Treatment Plant 4 Times Cheaper Than...
Nuclear engineers at Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in Kalpakkam now have another credit to their name apart being responsible for the country’s atomic reactors. Using their spare time, the...
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These Green Bins in Kozhikode Will Create Manure out of Your Household Waste!
While city corporations across the country have adopted several schemes like pipe compost, biogas plant and even ‘aerobin’ compost to tackle the ever-growing mounds of waste, residents have often found...
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Want to Have a Green and Clean Event? Here’s a Delhi Woman Who Can Make That...
From fairs and conferences to concerts and weddings, every event leaves behind a substantial trail of waste on the venue. While waste disposal should be an entailed responsibility of organisers upon...
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Why Eco-Friendly Festivals Like Bengaluru’s Echoes of Earth Are Important in...
How conscious are Indian music festivals of their ecological footprint? The kind of question I was sure a Google search would have an answer to, had me surprised when it didn’t. Every year, about 25...
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This Delhi Graphic Designer’s Awesome Tips on Waste Management Will Make Your...
For 38-year-old Pooja Dhingra, every action comes with its responsibilities and consequences. A conceptualiser and graphic designer from Delhi with 12 years of experience, she recently started thinking...
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Meet The ‘Waste Warriors’, Who Are Helping Mumbai Become a Cleaner City
The recent endeavour by the BMC to tackle the issue of garbage segregation has forced Mumbaikars to change their lifelong habits and apathy towards household waste. Large building societies now have to...
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How Responsible Citizens Can Help Villages with Waste Management
Hyderabad, the beautiful ‘City of the Nawabs’, has two large reservoirs. Himayat Sagar and Osman Sagar. There are two old villages near the reservoirs, and both don’t come under the Hyderabad...
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Hyderabad Airport Becomes First in India to Install Recycling Machines for...
In a way to tackle the amount of trash discarded in airports, Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has begun installing water recycling machines. The Hyderabad airport is one of the...
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A Woman from Nagaland is Cleaning Varanasi, One Ghat at a Time
Varanasi (or Benaras), the spiritual capital of India, hosts millions of tourists every year. A majority of these tourists visit the city to bathe in the Ganges. Ironically, the river that is...
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Bio-Plastic From Prawn Shells? This 15-Year-Old School Girl Has Made It!
When 15-year-old Angelina Arora saw the huge number of plastic bags being carried out of a Sydney supermarket, the first thing that came to her mind was the immense environmental damage caused by these...
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This ‘Poonawalla’ Has Invested Crores to Clean up Pune’s Streets
In a first of its kind initiative, a private company, Serum Institute of India, has invested Rs. 100 crore to aid the Pune municipal corporation in cleaning the city. Adar Poonawalla is the CEO of...
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Your Old Plastic Bottle Can Become a New Shirt – Through These Mills in Tamil...
Mineral water, soda, juices and such other liquids are sold in Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plastic. After they are used, these bottles are discarded and end up in dumping grounds, where they rest...
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Dump the Plastic Straw! Here are Some Alternatives to the Environmental Hazard
It is incredibly unfortunate to see how straws have become a menace all around the globe. Extensive use of this thin plastic tube on an everyday basis has resulted in them becoming an environmental...
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How Kerala’s ‘Zero-Waste’ Alappuzha Won a Spot Among Top 5 Cities in UN List
Until about five years ago, visitors to the sleepy seaside town of Alappuzha would be greeted by heaps of garbage and plastic waste at every other intersection. The insanitary conditions had also made...
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Gold out of Industrial Waste? This Mumbai-Based Researcher Has the Answer!
While plastic may take the crown for being the largest component of the global waste produced annually, many other contenders contribute significantly to the ever-growing waste burden of the planet....
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