waste management

On a daily basis, it is reported that Meghalaya generates over 500 hundred tonnes of garbage, out of which its capital city, Shillong, roughly accounts for a staggering 150 tonnes alone!

The initiative has firmly cemented bonding between different religious practitioners, besides paving the way for environmental awareness and the fact that good things happen when people irrespective of their backgrounds unite.

“The one thing that I said over and over everywhere I went was that Ambala would not become Paris in 60 days, but it would certainly be recognised for its cleanliness,” says the founder of this project. .

Today, the waste management system of this Rajasthan village is in alignment with the Swachh Bharat Mission and is being considered as a replicable model for the entire district. This is a result of the efforts put in by two engineers – Kavya Raman and Shuvam Das Choudhury.

One of the most common uses of gold today is in smartphones, but with a lifespan of 5 years, these smartphones gets thrown in the waste along with the gold. Well, no more will that be the case.

Spearheaded by the students of Anjuman-I-Islam A A Khatkhatay English secondary school in Vashi, this unique e-waste management initiative has been christened ‘Contribute your E-waste to educate a child’.

Though she began making dolls very recently, art and craft had been something she has been engaged in since her childhood days.

Zulkif Shaikh and three of his friends decided to not take up a well-paid job after completing their masters in Green Technology, and instead, started Sanjeevani S3

India, a country of 1.3 billion people and obvious high use of plastic, is not one among the top ten plastic polluters in the world!

The campaign has been a raging success in Mumbai where this group of environmentally-conscious citizens from the NGO have collected over 100 tonnes of plastic, electronic and other recyclable waste from housing societies and in turn gifted a whopping 20,000 bags across the city.