waste management

Tonnes of garbage is spewed every day on Kodi beach in Kundapura town by a river. Read how resilient individuals are not giving up on their mission to restore their pristine beach

Every Friday, residents of Good Earth Malhar Footprints harvest fresh veggies like leafy vegetables, radish, chillies, etc. Awesome!

By 2050, India will need a landfill that's the size of Delhi to dump all its waste. We need to act now. #CleanIndia

Running in more than 180 schools for the last year, it has collected and prevented more than 22 lakh multi-layered plastic packets/sachets from exhausting landfills!

Since the last ten years, Shefali has been treating 90 per cent of the waste and only a fraction of the garbage goes to the landfill. Isn't this amazing. Read to know how you can follow suit.

In a city that generates 10,000 tonnes of garbage everyday, 40+ societies changed the way they handled their waste. Thanks to this one-woman army.

"If you involve people in schemes, there is very little scope for failure,” says founder NK Perumal.

On the one hand, where most of us are silent about environmental degradation, people like Katragadda are proof that even the efforts of ordinary citizens, can lead to significant and long-lasting change.

“The shredded plastic waste is used for the tarring of roads by mixing the plastic with bitumen. As for the plastic granules, they are sold to factories to make hose and pipes,” says Sahajan.

It was during a trip that Suhani, for the first time, saw the Bandhwari landfill and was shocked at its state. When Suhani read up on the various kinds of plastics she became alarmed at the statistics about the non-recyclable MLP.