sustainable alternatives

What do you do with a weed that grows back in 14 days and kills everything in its path? In Trichy, 25-year-old ecologist Sushmita Krishnan found an answer — she turned it into handmade paper and trained 150 women to do the same.

Bamboo, coir, cane - these 10 eco-friendly products cost under Rs 1000 and will aid you in everyday life, apart from getting you started on sustainable living.

Puneet Dutta’s Attaware Biodegradable Private Limited, based in Delhi, manufactures sustainable alternatives to single-use plastic and thermocol cutlery.

Ruchi Jain, a Pune-based entrepreneur, runs Paivi, an eco-friendly startup that manufactures edible straws to eliminate single-use plastic.

With banana leaves, wheat and rice bran, millet waste and more, Coimbatore entrepreneur Kalyana Kumar has innovated machinery that can churn out eco-friendly and biodegradable single-use cutlery and containers.

This year several gatherings scheduled for Independence day have moved to online. This has come as a blessing in disguise to the environment!

From clay bottles to bamboo straws, here's a guide of nifty eco-friendly alternatives to help those of you who want to make the shift to a plastic-free lifestyle!