Plastic Waste

Ambili Prasannakumar began to make the mats during the lockdown. She says that the mat making helped her to stay "tension free".

Econiture sells furniture and home decors made from recycled plastic. Their collection includes chairs, stools, racks, stands, shelves, pots, benches and tables.

‘Bamboo Projects’ constructed this recycled plastic house at a cost of Rs 4.5 Lakh, for a woman in Mangaluru.

Project Mumbai has so far converted plastic waste into 150 benches. This time they are offering to donate one kg of grocery for every kg of plastic waste you donate.

With one flick of the hand we send our waste into the bins. It's time to consider if they can be recycled, reused and reduced.

While recycling may seem like it solves our problem, the reality is far different. We need a new answer.

It was during a trip that Suhani, for the first time, saw the Bandhwari landfill and was shocked at its state. When Suhani read up on the various kinds of plastics she became alarmed at the statistics about the non-recyclable MLP.

Give us plastic. We shall give you freebies in return — that's the eco-friendly funda driving the municipal corporations of Delhi and Bhubaneswar!

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

Guided by Deputy Commissioner RK Pruthi, Sirmaur district of #Himachal Pradesh is turning waste plastic bottles into polybricks by using all kinds of trash like wrappers, cups and straws!