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Features8 years agoMumbai's River Marchers Address Dual Problems Of Plastic Waste And Poisar River Pollution With This Simple Technique
As an experiment, a group of volunteers have created a floating wetland out of 500 plastic bottles and uprooted plants to clean the Poisar river
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Gujarat8 years ago
Gujarat High Court Allows Usage Of Plastic Cups With 50 Microns Thickness
In 2015, the Gujarat Plastic Manufacturers Association had filed a petition in the Gujarat High Court challenging Amadavad Municipal Corporation’s guideline of banning all kinds of...
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News8 years ago
For Swachh Bharat To Be A Reality People Should Stop Littering And Start Recycling: PET Packaging Association for Clean Environment
PET Packaging Association for Clean Environment urged people to segregate recyclable waste from the general waste and that only then India can achieve its Swachh Bharat...
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Goa8 years ago
Make Goa Plastic Free: Fine Will Be Levied On The Usage Of Plastics In The Coastal State
To curb the usage of plastic in Goa, Chief Minister, Manohar Parrikar announced fine if people are found buying or selling plastics and made an appeal...
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Plastic Waste8 years ago
Can These Eco-Friendly Bags, Made Out Of Natural Starches And Vegetable Wastes Serve As An Alternative To Plastics In Future?
Meet the waste warrior Ashwath Hegde, who has created bags as an alternative to plastics that take less than 180 days to biodegrade naturally once discarded....
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Karnataka8 years ago
Fighting Poverty And Swachh Bharat Cause: Two Youngsters In Bengaluru Make Gardens Using Plastic Bottles And Waste
These two youngsters in Bengaluru are transforming home and office spaces using discarded plastic containers in order to fulfill their dream of Swachh Bharat
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Independence Day8 years ago
A 12-Year Old’s Dream – Make Toilets For Rural Girls And Create A Plastic Free India
Meet 12-year-old, Monidrita Chatterjee from Jamshedpur who dreams of fighting two ongoing problems in India - open defecation and plastic waste management
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News8 years ago
This Housewife Gets An Applause From Prime Minister Narendra Modi For Recycling Plastic Waste
Calling her plastic recycled gifts made from wrappers and polythene, ‘beautiful’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appreciated Gita Devi’s craft
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News8 years ago
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar May Ban Plastic Usage At Dudhsagar Waterfalls
Last month, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had set a target to make the state garbage-free by 2020 and had banned the use of plastic bags...
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Jharkhand8 years ago
Waste Management: This Jharkhand School Will Use Plastic Bottles To Construct A Toilet
Manav Vikas School in Jamshedpur currently has only one toilet. The school aims to reuse 3,000 plastic bottles and make an environment-friendly toilet and based on...
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Features8 years ago
More Than 25 Lakh People In Kannur Ditch Plastic To Make It India's 1st Plastic-Free District
India generates around 56 lakh tonnes of plastic waste annually and the truth is that it takes around 500 to 1000 years for any plastic waste...
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News8 years ago
With 17 Tonnes Of Plastic Waste, This Island Is One Of World’s Most Neglected Island: Study
According to a study nearly 3500 pieces of plastic waste gets accumulated on the Henderson Island in the South Pacific Ocean on a daily basis
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Waste Management8 years ago
Divine Intervention: This Bengaluru Temple Has Setup A Perfect Waste Management Model To Deal With Its Daily Waste Problem
From banning plastic containers to setting up composting plants, this Bengaluru temple is a leading example of devotion in cleanliness
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Waste Management8 years ago
Playgrounds For Children From Scrap Tyres, 5 IIT Students Came up With This Idea To Recycle Waste
A playground is worth a million smiles! With this idea in their mind these IITians started a company that uses scrap tyres as construction material to...
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Swachh Warriors8 years ago
This Hyderabad Husband-Wife Duo Are On A Mission To Reduce Plastic Waste In India
After creating a house, a water tank, a bus shelter and several types of furnitures out of trash, Prashant Lingam and Aruna Kappagantula will soon make...
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