Garbage

Uttarpara is a small town with a population of 1.9 lakh and the municipality there has done a great job of turning waste to wealth.

On October 12, the girls of the Green Police fetched their district an award from the administration for the most eco-friendly puja celebrations.

Balaka Ghosal writes about Ganga Narayan Ghosh, a mechanical engineer by qualification who has designed some unique bins to tackle the problem of waste management in India in an organised way.

Here are the factors that led to Mysore getting the top spot for cleanest city in India, and why Chandigarh, in spite of being India's first planned city, lost out.

Meet these Kolkata-based entrepreneurs who have given the Swachh Bharat campaign a whole new dimension by making people in the city more conscious about their surroundings.

Aditya Ravindra Potdar, a 12-year-old student of Class 7 has come up with an excellent solution to tackle the garbage problem in many Indian cities. His idea is to ensure that garbage is constantly cleared from the streets, and is also well segregated before reaching the compost units.

Very soon, garbage discarded in and around the Jaipur railway station premises will not be just garbage, but a source of energy. It will be used to run trains, cook food and more.

The empty plots surrounding residential areas frequently turn into garbage dump sites, which the authorities usually take no onus of. This is how a team of 10-12 kids from the Atmananda Colony in North Bengaluru decided to clear the 4000 sqft plot that sits in the middle of their locality.

A brilliant initiative is giving artists in Delhi a chance to display their creativity in a prominent public space while making garbage bins aesthetically appealing! Read on to find out how.