In a bid to cut down plastic waste, all the 138 stores of TATA Starbucks Pvt Ltd across India will switch to eco-friendly cutlery, stirrers, cups, straws, cap lids made from corn starch
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90 per cent of the women in Udaypura, a village in Jharkhand used to defecate in the open before 2018. Today, every woman in the village has access to a toilet, thanks to 29-year-old Sunita Devi
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26-year-old Chitransh Saxena from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, started a PadBank in June 2018. 148 girls in the city are getting free sanitary pads every month from the bank
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From practising in-house composting, ditching plastic items to switching to a menstrual cup, here’s how T. Lalita from Mumbai is changing her lifestyle to manage waste at an individual level
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A housing society in Goregaon, Mumbai has converted close to 3.5 tonnes of waste in to 400 kilos of manure within a period of one year. The manure is being used in the newly developed garden
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Though Mumbai have met all the parameters to be called an open defecation free city, it needs to solve problems like lack of water connection, overuse of toilets, gender disparity and others related the usage of public and community toilets
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From having disable-friendly toilet seats, installing sanitary napkin vending machines to providing international hygiene standards for free, here’s how public toilets in crowded Mumbai are faring
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With commuters littering railway tracks and platforms, defecation on railway tracks and poorly maintained toilets on platforms, can Mumbai have a Swachh rail experience in future?
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18 months after achieving the Open Defecation Free status, here’s how Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is encouraging people to use public toilets
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Three lakh volunteers from Sant Nirankari Charitable Foundation (SNCF), participated in the cleanliness drive conducted in more than 900 hospitals across India including the J J Hospital on February 23
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104 government-run schools in Vadodara, Gujarat will get sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators for free to promote menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls
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Hyderabad has launched three pink toilets with sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators to give women access to menstrual hygiene facilities
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Agal foundation in Chennai is helping school students aged between 9 and 11 to reuse, reduce and recycle waste or discarded items through its ‘Thrash the Trash Champs’ programme
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In a bid to tackle plastic waste and air pollution, the Indore Municipal Corporation replaces plant pots with plastic bottles to develop a vertical garden at Nehru park
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