Waste Management

Did you know that everyday items made of trash bring in Rs. 5 crores annually? Here's how individuals & organisations across the country are creatively dealing with India's waste problem.

TIGO (Trust in Green Only) is a Pune-based organization that offers on-demand doorstep collection facilities for recyclable waste. This is how it works.

Balaka Ghosal writes about Ganga Narayan Ghosh, a mechanical engineer by qualification who has designed some unique bins to tackle the problem of waste management in India in an organised way.

Run by a group of environmentally-conscious individuals, Waste Ventures India provides waste solutions for housing societies and corporate offices by recycling dry waste and composting organic waste.

Garbology uses colouring books, board games & activity-based learning to drive long-term behavioural change among school students, especially with regard to consumption & waste management.

Unsure about whether the waste you segregate and dispose of is actually recycled or not? Here is one company that will take complete responsibility of the waste generated from your house or office, and make sure it does not end up in landfills.

Everyone knows the mantra for saving our environment from further degradation is – 'Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.' But for many people, although reduce and reuse are easy enough to practice, recycling is difficult. Pom Pom was established just to take care of this problem.

Two women from Bangalore are changing the use and dispose habits of people in the city. They are slowly replacing disposable ware with dinnerware that they rent out for parties.

A Tamil Nadu start-up has the solution for landfills – it segregates waste, creates an alternative fuel for industries and ensures reclamation of land.

Bioneer is a revolutionary machine that can create compost from organic waste in just 24 hours. An innovation of Mumbai-based Excel Industries Private Limited, this product is in the market now.