Waste Management

Free your house and neighbourhood from the menace of growing waste with these apps that have revolutionised waste management in India.

The Vivekanand Education Society, which produces 100 kilograms of waste, has a zero-waste campus. While dry waste is given away to recycle, wet waste is used for composting. In the end, none of the waste generated ends up in landfills.

Two students from Netherlands came to India and saw the abysmal state of plastic waste and littering. They stayed, and decided they would raise awareness about plastic waste, starting with a mural in Delhi.

NMAMIT, in Nitte, near Udupi, is becoming self-reliant. The college collects used cooking oil from hotels, converts it into bio-diesel, and uses it as fuel for their buses and vehicles.

Being the largest consumer of electricity and energy in the country, the Indian Railways has begun harnessing renewable energy to reduce its impact on the environment.

Meet these Kolkata-based entrepreneurs who have given the Swachh Bharat campaign a whole new dimension by making people in the city more conscious about their surroundings.

This couple went searching for furniture for their new home and ended up making bamboo houses for others. Now, Prashant and Aruna have moved on to manufacturing all things recyclable.

Madhusudhana's son Kushal was thrilled to have his fourth birthday celebrated in such a unique manner and wants to continue this practice every year.

Plastic waste is a menace everywhere in the country. Meet the Plastic Man of India who has found a solution to reduce this waste by building roads and making stone coated with plastic waste.

Two high school boys undertake an initiative to provide hundreds of underprivileged school kids with notebooks and stationery. Here's what happens.