Recycling

Nishant Jain is a 15-year-old boy from Mumbai who has been working with schools in the city to collect batteries and e-waste in order to recycle them properly.

Plastic bottles that are casually discarded on railways tracks by passengers, are now being used to beautify the railway station at Aluva, Kochi.

Have you ever wondered what happens to that Appy or Frooti pack or any such tetra pack once you have tossed it into the dustbin? Thanks to some enterprising women at Anu Life, many of these packers are now recycled into eco-friendly bags.

Waste-pickers face an uphill task in gaining recognition for their important work. A Pune-based waste-pickers’ cooperative hopes to change the apathy faced by these workers.

A Noida-based company is recycling cigarette waste right from the paper and filter to ash and tobacco. Started by two friends in their twenties, the company is fighting a huge environmental hazard. This is how!

An architecture company founded by IITians is using scrap tyres as construction material to build a library for underprivileged children in Bangalore.

Plastic drums, paint cans, buckets, glass bottles and throw away junk – what do you get when you bring all these together? “Music!” say the rag picking children of Mumbai’s Dharavi slum.

Anakta Prabhu, a 12-year-old resident of Bhopal, has demonstrated an innovative way of curbing the thermocol menace by recycling it to make toys and other decorative items.

Mrinal Rao and Anjana Aiyyer, two Bengaluru-based entrepreneurs, have come up with a brilliant bin that recycles wet and organic waste right at the source, collecting the by-products separately for use in a hassle free manner.

Rajat Kukerja, a resident of Bengaluru, has opened a new hostel in the city for travellers from across the world. Known as the Cuckoo Hostel, it has the unique distinction of being the only hostel in the city that produces zero waste.