Meet 27-year-old Binish Desai, a PhD holder in environmental science and technology, social entrepreneur and Chairman of E.E. Tech Group who has been working on waste...
An athlete and a fitness enthusiast, Ripu Daman Bevli, 31, started plogging in 2017 and gave rise to a new cleanliness cum fitness trend in India....
For how long do you use a pair of denims? Two to four years? And what do you do with it once they are worn out...
From newspapers we read every morning to the magazines we read in leisure time, from the story books we read, to the diaries we use to...
Kumbh that has been accorded the status of 'Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity' by UNESCO, aims to live up to its theme - 'Swachh Kumbh, Surakshit...
India's grim reality in the 21st century is the volume of waste it generates per year which is 62 million tonnes, and if continues at this...
Fed up from her corporate job in an advertising agency in the sprawling city of Mumbai, Vadodra-based Ekta quit her job and moved to United Kingdoms...
What happens when all the residents of a colony decide to follow the practice of segregating dry and wet waste on a daily basis? Simple, 68...
India is the global host of 45th World Environment Day which will take place on June 5 with a theme of 'Beat Plastic Pollution'. This year,...
From Maharashtra to Delhi to Telangana, the celebrations for the 45th World Environment Day have already begun. With people from around the globe joining in, India...
India is the official host of the 45th World Environment Day for which the theme is 'Beat Plastic Pollution'. The celebrations for the World Environment Day...
From pens to bottles to mugs, most of the things we use in our day to day life are made of plastic and avoiding these seem...
At the launch of season 5 of NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India, Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan urged people to fight against poor hygiene, sanitation and air pollution....
The launch of Season 5 of NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India, Campaign Ambassador set the agenda for this year's initiative, which will focus on Sanitation, Wash, Air...
NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India chose Mumbai's Cooper Hospital as the setting to launch its Season 5 with Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan. In 2016, the Hospital started...
Plastic, a material which takes around 500 years to decompose, has in the last decade turned into one of the most littered items. According to a...
Have you ever wondered what happens to the plastic bags, spoons, pet bottles and other such products which you use and discard almost on a daily...
Meet Binish Desai, a social entrepreneur, waste warrior, and an innovator, who is continuously coming up with different ways of waste recycling and management. Make way...
Every year more than 100 billion cigarette butts get dumped in the landfills of India. It's a lesser known fact that the cigarette filter is made...
Students from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University have started Project Patradya, a two tier model based on finding alternatives for plastic products. While searching alternatives for...
This World Environment Day,the cities undertook a massive waste management campaign and pledged to adopt the two bin system following the launch of source segregation awareness...
4000 cities across India will join the Nationwide waste management campaign to celebrate World Environment Day on June 5. The campaign is aimed at driving door...
Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi uses bicycle during weekends to meet common people and hear about the issues.She has now urged the officials of municipal corporation...
‘Nothing is waste and get the best out of waste' is the motto of these three startups - Scarpshala, Recycle India and Anthill creations. From recycling...
India generates around 60 million tonnes of garbage every single day and almost 45 million tonnes, a whopping 75%, of the garbage are dumped untreated in...
To achieve the targets set by the ambitious Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, India needs to solve or at least reduce the burden of its waste. Being one...
Two and a half years since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission, India's sanitation coverage has risen to 60.53 per cent from 44.72 per cent in...
At the launch of season 4 of NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India campaign, Amitabh Bachchan urged the people to collect the waste, segregate it and compost it...
The Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan has been one of the most successful campaigns in India and has now got the pledge and support of millions, but a...
Manual Scavenging in India was made illegal in 1993, but the practice continues to be India's shame to this day. Data from the Ministry of Social...
Did you know by segregating, recycling and composting, a family of 4 can reduce their waste from 1000 Kg to less than 100 kg every year....
Generating almost 62 million tonnes of garbage every day, India has been among the top 10 countries generating the highest amount of Municipal Solid Waste. Out...
Long before the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched, Sikkim became India's first open defecation free state in 2008 as the state government and the local population...
The world today is facing a huge waste management crisis. We are producing far more waste than we can treat, the implications of which are already...
It's easy to complain about the lack of cleanliness around us, but it's very difficult to actually be the change we want to bring about. These...
President Murmu lauded Indore for remaining on top in the cleanliness survey for the seventh time in a row and...
India is a great example where if we can reduce malnutrition, it literally helps drive meaningful economic growth, said Bill...
Between now and 2050, 40 million more children will have stunted growth and 28 million more will suffer from wasting,...
