Recycling

Discarding your old shoes? Ever thought of how the non-biodegradable pair will reach landfills and remain there for ages, adding to carbon emissions and polluting the environment? This is what you can do instead.

Banners and hoardings are often considered an urban nuisance. But this organisation's creative up-cycling of flex proves that every problem has a creative, eco-friendly solution.

In a move that both empowers women and instils environment friendly habits, an all women group from Kharghar – Yuvashakti – has started recycling old sarees that can be stitched up as bags.

Ashutosh Srivastava and Pranav Manocha, final year students of Delhi University have developed a garbage bin that takes all your trash and rewards you for it.

Here are a handful of the many great ideas out there for how to recycle those plastic bottles and their caps. Get inspired and get started!

IIT-Bombay final year students Anurag Meena and Satyendra Meena developed a machine that dispenses clean drinking water if you put in a plastic bottle or aluminium can.

Increasing economic growth and urbanisation are leading to more products being discarded, wastage and mountains of landfills. This NGO is working to help us dispose of waste more responsibly, improve the working conditions and lives of waste pickers, encourage recycling, and contribute to a cleaner environment.

Two high school boys undertake an initiative to provide hundreds of underprivileged school kids with notebooks and stationery. Here's what happens.

Nek Chand, creator of the world famous Rock Garden at Chandigarh, died at the age of 90. He started making the garden secretly and managed to hide it from everyone for 18 years! Here are 10 such amazing facts you should know about him.

A team that being both environment friendly and fashionable at the same time! Have you tried any of these amazing shoes made out of old tyres? Read more to know how Paaduks is making best use of scrap tyres and helping cobblers.