Zero Waste India

At 27, Nishtha Chauhan left engineering to launch a zero-waste café in Gujarat that now earns Rs 12 lakh a month. But it’s more than a business — through millet meals and workshops, she’s teaching over 2,000 children to eat mindfully and helping reduce 47 tonnes of plastic and carbon waste yearly.

India’s cleanest city has found a new way to practise sustainability — by helping citizens donate, repair, and reuse old goods through its RRR (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) Centre.