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Environmentalist Vikrant Tongad, founder of non-profit SAFE, turned a four-acre dumpsite in Greater Noida into a thriving green zone with 3,000 native trees. Here’s how he and the community prevented another Ghazipur-like landfill disaster.

Shamseer P from Kerala decided to single-handedly transform a dumpyard overflowing with waste into a beautiful garden with flowering plants. Here's how he did it.

Marine biologist and former professor Dr Mantha Ram Murthy founded the Dolphin Nature Conservation Society in 2001, and with help of volunteers and students, converted a waste land in the premises of a hospital into a lush biodiversity park.

The once dump yard, today boasts of trees like pomegranate, sweet lime, guava, and also has plants like lemon, lady finger, tomato, black plum, lemon and bitter gourd.

The 1990s saw a drastic shift of the villagers from farming to other professions. Farming yielded low profits, groundwater levels were severely depleted, and the pH value of the water was considered unsuitable even for drinking purposes.

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When a group of villagers decided they were tired of seeing their village land go to waste, they decided to restore it to its former glory!

Over the years, there have been several attempts to remove the garbage from the dumping site, but to no avail. Officials say the new method is much more efficient than the previous ones.