PET Bottles

Neeman’s, an Indian footwear brand, launched by brothers Taran Chhabra and Amar Preet Singh in December 2018, creates sustainable shoes using Merino wool, recycled tyres and PET bottles.

IAS officer Lakshmi Priya M S in Assam details how he built a community toilet made using more than 8000 plastic bottles.

You've heard of plastic pollution and how it is the biggest threat facing our oceans. But did you know that we're literally wearing plastic pollution on our sleeves?

Here are 10 innovative ways in which you can help reuse/recycle plastic bottles in your household!

Project Mumbai is back with their successful Recyclothon. Their ongoing campaign — ‘Plastic Recyclothon: Ek Baar Phir’, flagged off on 2 October and to go on till 8 October, has already seen more than 1.25 lakh people volunteer to give away their plastic waste.

Snack manufacturers, like PepsiCo India, ITC and Cavinkare have shown enthusiasm in altering their current ways to meet the plastic ban in various states, including Maharashtra.

PET or plastic bottles are some of the biggest contributors choking our landfills today. Giving this plastic waste a new lease on life, Grow Bags recycles them to create a cloth-like bag that can be used to grow plants.

This seemingly new trend of recycling plastic bottles into wearable materials is followed since 1996.

Shailee Shah, a resident of Gurgaon, has quenched the thirst of thousands of people by distributing chilled drinking water among passers-by for free.

Do you ever worry that the mineral water bottle you just discarded will be picked up and used to package unclean water again? Now there is a machine to crush the bottle at source and convert it into flakes that can be recycled.