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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Teenagers Jai and Preet Aswani from Chennai aim to make one lakh cloth bags from old bedsheets and pillow covers to replace plastic carry bags, post plastic ban in Tamil Nadu ...
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To encourage people to dispose of menstrual waste in a scientific way, 29-year-old Anisha Nichani from Chennai is making sanitary napkin disposal bags from recycled newspapers ...
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Know about R. A. Puram, a colony in Tamil Nadu’s capital Chennai, that is ensuring both rainwater harvesting, and garbage free streets ...
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Inspired by waste management system in Musiri, Chennai based Vishnu Priya has made a documentary that covers solutions on conserving water and managing waste ...
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Vegetable waste is not an item of waste anymore as Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women in T. Nagar, Chennai, uses it to produce biogas ...
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Blooming Beacon, a student led group devoted towards social work is trying to raise ₹8,90,000 to provide sanitary napkins to around 3,500 women and girls ...
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Though the local civic body has declared Chennai open defecation free, the city awaits a final nod from the Union government ...
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According to a 2014 study published in a Public Library of Science Journal, there are around 5 trillion pieces of plastic floating in the world’s oceans. According to World Economic Forum, if this continues, then by 2050, oceans will have more plastic floating in the world’s oceans than whale, shark and fishes ...
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Chennai’s probable ODF declaration may get into murky waters as instances of people defecating in the open are still reported ...
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