Environment & Sustainability

Recycling Will Help Generate Large Scale Employment: Minister New Delhi: Recycling and turning waste into useful products under the Swachh Bharat Mission – Urban (SBM) will not help in moving towards garbage free cities but also generate…

IOC Unveils 'Sustainable & Green' Eco-Friendly Uniform Made From Recycled PET Bottles IOC’s eco-friendly uniform initiative would support the recycling of about 405 tonnes of PET bottles, equivalent to offsetting over 20 million…

Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling in Bangladesh Dhaka-based food manufacturer Akij Food and Beverage (AFBL), a member of Akij Venture Group, is producing its own rPET for the company’s brand beverage bottles on a bottle-to-bottle recycling line…

Coca-Cola Hopes to Achieve 100% Recycling of Bottles, Cans in 2-3 Yrs in India The company through its focus on three fundamental goals -- design, collect and partner -- is laying emphasis on entire packaging lifecycle -- from how bottles…

Coca-Cola and Zepto to Collect, Recycle Pet Bottles in Mumbai In the ‘return and recycle’ initiative, consumers can access the ‘Return PET Bottles’ feature on the Zepto app, where they can opt to return up to four empty PET bottles across…

Brightmark Launches Medical Waste Recycling Program With Jamar Health Products The company will convert plastic medical waste, including Jamar’s Patran slide sheets, into circular and sustainable products. Brightmark, a global waste…

Furniture From Recycled Tyres! The Innovative Hyderabad Couple Behind This and More The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has opened a Give and Share Kiosk right opposite the Oracle office in Shilparamam. It’s an eco-friendly booth…

Hyderabad Airport Becomes First in India to Install Recycling Machines for Garbage In a way to tackle the amount of trash discarded in airports, Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has begun installing water recycling…

Pencils Made From Recycled Newspaper? Get It From These Folks Who Make Them! If I have hated any invention, it is the sharpener. The pencil sharpener, I believed to be the most inefficient devices regarding wastage of wood, to the amount…

How Residents of Kolkata Are Keeping Their City Clean and Getting Paid for It Too! One of the major issues that every city in India faces is the exponential rise of waste. Leaving aside the growing piles of waste, it is the way the entire…