Plastic

Bengaluru-based Professor Saji Varghese founded a startup called Sunbird Straws, which sells eco-friendly straws made from coconut leaves. So far, the company has sold over 20 million pieces worldwide.

Kapil Bhatia founded Unirec in 2021, a sustainable fashion brand that creates clothes from recycled plastic, saving tons of plastic waste from entering landfills.

Anish Malpani is the visionary behind Ashaya, the venture that is turning multi-layered plastic waste into trendy sunglasses. Anish explains why he left a cushy US career to embark on this journey.

This new year’s, MamaEarth, a toxin-free, natural skincare brand, released two short films as part of their #GoodnessResolution to encourage people to introspect and take action to bring a positive change.

In Bengaluru, PotHoleRaja has built an innovative road using 3000 kg of recycled plastic, that's cheaper, uses less water and gives a 5-year warranty of being pothole-free.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change issued the draft Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2021 in which they proposed a blanket ban on a number of plastic items, amongst other things.

Ambily Adithyan has worked with school students, doctors and other professionals to keep plastic waste from landfills. This weekend, you can join her too!

“We looked around to source cloth and found it to be very expensive. It was during this time that the boys decided to collect old bed-sheets from hotels and use those to make the cloth bags,” informs Varsha Aswani, the proud mother of these teen boys with an eco and social conscience.

The central idea was to have a citizen force that collected plastic waste from multiple sources in their neighborhoods – homes, shops, etc.

Given that Bengaluru airport generates a large quantum of waste each day, BIAL will use the plastic waste collected through this drive to pave its internal roads. “The #PlasticBeku campaign is one initiative that we believe can change the world,” says Chandramouli.