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Conserve India – Turning Garbage Into Trendy Fashion
Palak Bhatia revisits the Commonwealth Games 2010 to see if there were any positive takeaways at all. And you will be pleasantly surprised with what she found. There is so much that gets buried under...
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Green Products Come In Many Colours – Creative Eco-Friendly Stuff For...
A calculator that runs on water, bookmarks that bloom into flowers, vinyl records that turn into clocks – some eco-friendly entrepreneurs have turned biodegradable waste into quirky, fashionable...
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How Ignored Weavers And Used Tyres Came Together To Create A Unique Line Of...
Anu Tandon reaches out to some of the amazing weavers and brings out the best of products made from waste material. From chairs and tables to frames and display articles, these pieces of art are...
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TBI Blogs: How Discarded Material from Hoardings Is Helping Schools in...
Banners and hoardings are often considered an urban nuisance. But this organisation’s creative up-cycling of flex proves that every problem has a creative, eco-friendly solution. We’ve all heard the...
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These 11 Women Do Their Bit for the Environment by Turning Juice Tetra Packs...
Have you ever wondered what happens to that Appy or Frooti pack or any such tetra pack once you have tossed it into the dustbin? The chances of these packets adding to the rotting waste in a landfill...
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From Plastic to Fantastic: How Pune-Based Entrepreneurs Upcycle Plastic Trash...
Pune-based former IT professionals, Amita Deshpande and Nandan Bhat have launched their brand Aarohana EcoSocial Developments, which upcycles plastic bags into beautiful handbags, purses and other...
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Underprivileged Women in Chandigarh Upcycle Dry Waste to Make a Living,...
Project Navriddhi in Chandigarh aims to kill two birds with one stone: offer a source of income to women from underprivileged backgrounds and tackle the issue of dry waste in the city through...
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Best of Waste: This Mumbai-Based Startup Transforms Vinyl Records & CDs into...
The Upcycle Co. turns waste vinyl records & CDs into quirky and useful lifestyle products. It’s been decades since VCR tapes and vinyl records became passé and CDs were the coolest thing in the...
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TBI Blogs: These Schoolkids Taught Each Other Music by Upcycling Waste into...
Students at Mahabodhi Residential School in Devachan, Leh, Jammu & Kashmir were concerned about many issues in their community, such as the modernization of Ladakh, which was leading to loss of...
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Gold out of Industrial Waste? This Mumbai-Based Researcher Has the Answer!
While plastic may take the crown for being the largest component of the global waste produced annually, many other contenders contribute significantly to the ever-growing waste burden of the planet....
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Why Dump it When You Can Wear It: Women Use Trash To Make Stunning Jewellery!
Angeline Babu and Rituparna Das were baffled when their respective children asked them the meaning of the word “recycle.” The women tried their best to explain, but the children were dissatisfied with...
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Garbage Mounds to Clean Streets: How 2 Engineers Are Revamping a Rajasthani...
This article has been powered by SBI Youth for India Fellowship. A year ago, if you would visit the Chota Narena village in Ajmer district of Rajasthan, huge mounds of garbage on either side of the...
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Tetra-Packs & Torn Jeans: Bengaluru Woman Upcycles Waste into Things You’ll...
India produces 1,00,000 metric tonnes of solid waste on a daily basis, and this amount is higher than the combined solid waste generated by many other countries. While one can argue that the...
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Vasudhaiva Ride: Biker Duo Build Self-Reliant House in Bihar with Upcycled...
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam is a timeless Sanskrit phrase from the Hindu text of Maha Upanishad that imagines the whole world as one joint family. Emulating that saying are two youngsters—Kumar Prashant, an...
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Green Governance: Meet the IAS Officer Powering a Recycling Revolution in...
Mahatma Gandhi had once said, “The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.” The manner in which we are overexploiting resources and polluting our planet to meet our needs...
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Wood, Wires & Waste Tyres: Noida Uses Discarded Cargo Packaging to Beautify...
We read about individual-centric sustainable initiatives for us to emulate in our own lives and do our bit for the environment—eco-friendly ideas at the micro level that set the ball rolling towards...
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Can Plastic Bags Be Upcyled At Home? 66-Year-Old Mumbai Lady Shows The Way!
From toothbrushes, toys, and stationery to shopping bags, and utensils, almost everything we use in our day-to-day lives is either made entirely of plastic or certain parts of it. For 66-year-old Rita...
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20-YO School Bus Upcycled Into Stunning Open-Air Theatre. Check Out Pics!
Tucked away in Parowal, a small village of Punjab, there is a school with a unique structure that redefines the meaning of upcycling. Made of metal and concrete and infused with love and character,...
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Kerala Girl Collects Discarded Bottles From Dirty Lake, Upcycles Them Into...
Right from childhood, craft had always intrigued Aparna S. A resident of Munroe Thuruthu in Kollam, she would dabble in different craft forms, despite having no formal training. Her exceptional...
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Stuck With Old Jeans? Mumbai Woman Stopped 2,500 Pairs from Ending up in...
A pair of jeans is not a usual piece of garment, but a tale of history and human intelligence. Made of cotton corduroy, also known as denim, the creation of jeans was driven by utility 146 years ago....
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