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Transforming Garbage Bins Into Works Of Art At Delhi’s Lodi Gardens!
A brilliant initiative is giving artists a chance to display their creativity in a prominent public space while making garbage bins aesthetically appealing! Here’s how. One of the issues most Indian...
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QUICK BYTES: An empty plot was being used to dump garbage. Then 12 kids took...
The empty plots surrounding residential areas frequently turn into garbage dump sites, which the authorities usually take no onus of. Such times call for extreme actions. This is how a team of 10-12...
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Jaipur Railway Station Will Recycle Its Garbage to Run Trains and Cook Food
Very soon, garbage discarded in and around the Jaipur railway station premises will not be just garbage, but a source of energy. It will be used to run trains, cook food and more. According to...
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This 12-Year-Old Has an Idea That Can Clean Sweep India’s Garbage Problem
Aditya Ravindra Potdar, a 12-year-old student of Class 7 has come up with an excellent solution to tackle the garbage problem in many Indian cities. His idea is to ensure that garbage is constantly...
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Two Young Entrepreneurs Find a Novel Way to Combine Advertising with Garbage...
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. Kolkata is known as the...
View ArticleHow Mysore Beat Chandigarh To Be India’s Cleanest City
Here are the factors that led to Mysore getting the top spot for cleanest city in India, and why Chandigarh lost out. Chandigarh, India’s first planned city – known for wide roads laid out in...
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Bins Designed by This 87-Year-Old Mech Engineer Are Making Waste Collection...
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. Mr....
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How Enterprising Schoolgirls in Assam Patrolled Puja Mandaps to Ensure...
The Green Police isn’t a group of tree huggers who are keen on protecting the environment, but a group of 25 girls from Nagaon Bengali Girls High School; they have been striving to keep public spaces...
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A Small Town in West Bengal Helped Kolkata Win a Global Award for Waste...
It was a moment of great pride when the Kolkata Solid Waste Management Improvement Project received a global award in the urban solid waste management category at the C40 Mayors’ Summit held in Mexico...
View ArticleVIDEO: WiFi Trash Cans? This Mumbai Startup Has ‘Bin’ There, Done That
These trash-cans have built in WiFi routers that give you access to the internet for 15 minutes. But there’s a catch- Find out here: Transcript Startup ‘ThinkScream’ came up with the ‘wifi trash bin’....
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TBI Blogs: How Garbage Transformed an IT Engineer Into an Accidental Activist
From corporate success to literally cleaning up the streets, Malini Parmar’s story is an unconventional one. This social reformer stumbled into activism, and has carved a niche for herself in the waste...
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A Simple Red Dot From You Can Protect Waste Pickers From Health Risks. Watch...
The waste-pickers of Pune have a request for the public – respect their dignity and their health. The city’s waste-picker organisation called SWaCH, along with Pune Municipal Corporation and KKPKP...
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Learn the Art of Composting in Your Home & Watch Your Kitchen Waste Turn to...
Our garbage problems have become so big that TS Eliot’s famous poem, The Wasteland, could well be taken literally. As plastic sinks into oceans and landfills are choked with sanitary waste, it’s time...
View ArticleWhen Garbage Started Piling in His Town, a Nagaland Constable Started...
When garbage started piling around Pfutsero, a town in Nagaland, Constable Neingupe Marhu decided to go beyond his call of duty to tackle the problem. Every day, he drives around in his van before and...
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At This ATM, Deposit Garbage to Withdraw Rewards
Can you imagine an ATM where you will be compensated with some form of monetary reward for depositing your waste? Well, the students from NMAM Institute of Technology in Karnataka have started a...
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You Can Soon Help Clean up Goa’s Beaches Using WhatsApp. Here’s How!
For most people, a beach vacation in India is incomplete without a visit to one of the many incredible beaches in Goa. But as is the case for most popular tourist destinations, it has attracted its...
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17 Years Later, Garbage Bins Make a Comeback in Bengaluru
In 2000, Chief Minister CM SM Krishna declared his wish to make Bengaluru like Singapore by setting up a new garbage collection system. Street dustbins were replaced with a door-to-door garbage...
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This Former Garbage Dump in Bengaluru is Now Every Dog Lover’s Paradise
Tired of walking your dog on crowded streets, Bengalureans? Sad about how they cannot enjoy running in large open spaces with the wind in their fur and mud in their paws? Fed up of dodging dog poop...
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How Indore Became Garbage-Free and Beat Every Other City to It
On the surface, Indore looks like any another unremarkable town in central India. Unlike its less commercial cousin – Bhopal – Indore really has little to offer in terms of visual beauty and charm....
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Good Work Mumbai! 1400 Volunteers Clean Up Versova Beach After Ganesh Visarjan
Ganesh Chaturthi might have been over, but traces of the festival were visible on Mumbai’s beaches for days after. Thankfully, a group of proactive citizens stepped in and did what should have been...
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