plastic recycling

Once hit by a deadly plague, Surat is now India’s cleanest city. With smart tech, community effort, and a Rs 500 crore waste economy, it shows how cleanliness can become a habit.

What if waste could earn you money, feed your soil, and bring jobs to your village? That’s what Mohammad Aamir Khan is proving with Green Wave and Waste to Health in South Kashmir.

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.

When Dr Ruby Makhija became RWA secretary, she set out to fix one problem in her Delhi colony. 8 years later, not a single bag of waste has reached the landfill — and the numbers will surprise you.

What happens to all the plastic waste we throw away? Delhi’s Mohd Suhail found a way to give it new life. Through his company, Athar Packaging Solutions, he has recycled 200 tonnes of plastic into sustainable packaging, proving that small businesses can create big environmental change.

From planters to bird feeders, there's so much you can do with recycled plastic bottles! Here are five easy DIY projects.

Did you know it takes 30 PET bottles to make a chic blazer? K Sankar, and his son, Senthil, are helping recycle over 15 lakh PET bottles and turning them into fashionable clothes.

Plastic pollution is a massive issue, contributing to global CO2 emissions and damaging ecosystems. This startup is tackling the problem head-on by turning waste into something useful.

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.

Watch how Mumbai-based Kunti Oza, Hansu Pardiwala, and Chitra Hiremath launched The Milk Bag Project in 2019 to collect and recycle used plastic milk bags so they don’t pollute the earth.