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Waste Management8 years agoThis Woman Left Her Job At IIT Madras To Reduce Garbage Burden And Make Varanasi Swachh
With an aim to encourage recycling in India, Shikha Shah started Scarpshala, a start-up that transforms trash into beautiful decorative products and thereby helps reduce the...
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Plastic Waste8 years ago
IPL Spreads Recycle Plastic Message: Royal Challengers Bangalore Players Don Green Jerseys Made Of Recycled PET Bottles
To spread awareness among masses about clean and green India, the Royal Challengers Bangalore players wore a green jersey during their match on May 7, 2017...
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Waste Management8 years ago
Waste War: It’s Time To Recycle India’s Most Littered Item
This duo is recycling cigarette waste right from the paper and filter to ash and tobacco. What's great is that the customers can earn some money...
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Waste Management8 years ago
Edible Cutlery – The Next Big Thing To Fight Plastic Waste Woes In India
Delhi-based students started an initiative to fight India's growing plastic woes by engaging a community of women refugees to bring a substitute to harmful plastic utensils...
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News8 years ago
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Goa Waste Management Corporation To Collect Data On Garbage Generation
The newly formed Goa State Waste Management Corporation has decided that the first step would be accurate data collection, as the government lacks data due to...
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Waste Management8 years ago
From Waste To Wealth: These 5 Startups Are Showing India How To Manage Waste Effectively
Currently, every year the country produces a whopping 62 million tonnes of waste out of which 45 million tonnes of waste remains untreated. The need of...
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News8 years ago
National Green Tribunal Serves Notice To States And Union Territories Over Plastic Waste Management Rules
The National Green Tribunal has directed the states and union territories to come up with a plan of action before May 30 for implementing the Plastic...
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News8 years ago
Punjab Becomes The Latest State To Ban Plastic Products
Notification regarding the ban will be issued once the ban is formally approved by the state Cabinet
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Waste Management8 years ago
The Weight Of Waste In India: The Need For ‘One Nation, One Policy’
India has a serious garbage problem. The need of the hour is to start segregating waste as if we ignore it further then our country will...
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International Plastic Bag Free Day8 years ago
Can Caterpillars Save The World From Plastic Pollution Crisis?
An accidental discovery by a researcher in Spain found that the moth caterpillar produces a substance that breaks down chemical components of plastic before fully degrading...
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Features8 years ago
Indore’s Swachh Turnaround: Recycling 50% Of Its Plastic Waste
Until a few months back, Indore was the biggest plastic waste generator in Madhya Pradesh and burnt almost 13,000 kilos of plastic waste daily leading to...
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Menstrual Hygiene8 years ago
An Urgent Challenge: Why India Needs To Tackle Its Menstrual Waste
Did you know a single woman can generate up to 125 kg of non-biodegradable waste through her menstruating years alone? Knowing this staggering fact, it doesn’t...
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News8 years ago
Goa Sets New Swachh Target, To Be Garbage-Free By 2020
The first step towards making the state garbage free is to ban the use of plastic bags below thickness of 40 microns, followed by banning all...
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Campaign Highlights8 years ago
About Banega Swachh India Campaign Season 4: Take The #Mere10Guz Challenge
India’s urban population of 429 million citizens produce a whopping 62 million tonnes of garbage every single day. Out of this, 5.6 million tonnes is the...
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News8 years ago
Disposable Plastic Ban In Delhi: Green Tribunal Asks State Government And Pollution Control For A Status Report
National Green Tribunal in December 2016 had ordered a ban on disposable plastic in the entire National Capital Territory of Delhi. Now the Tribunal has sought...
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