Environment & Sustainability

These 12-Year-Old Boys Managed to Collect & Recycle over 1 Tonne of Dry Waste in One Month! A group of 12-year-old boys studying in different schools has taken up the mission “Think and Throw”, wherein they urge people to segregate wet…

National Storm Recovery Expands Into Wood Recycling Facility HumiSoil and XLR8 Bio are using patented VRM Biologik technology to collect hurricane Ian debris for conversion into leading soil moisture products. The Sustainable Green Team…

Scrap and Electronic Waste Disposal and Recycling in Hyderabad According to CPCB, India produced 20 Lakh tonnes of electronic waste between 2017 to 2018 and only 69,414 MT of garbage was collected, dismantled and recycled, this amounted to…

Heat and Bacteria Recycle Mixed Plastics Into Useful Chemicals Two-step process converts mixtures of plastic into small molecules, but could be challenging to implement at scale. Mixtures of plastics, usually a headache to recycle, have…

New ideas at Sustainable Clothing and Textile Recycling Conference New ideas and suggestions emerged at the recently concluded Sustainable Clothing and Textile Recycling Conference in Coimbatore. The third edition of the one-day B2B…

How to Get Started on Community Recycling A gated community on OMR on what went to selecting vendors and the role of children for such events In March, when House of Hiranandani Upscale in Egattur organised ‘RRR’ (reduce, reuse and…

Recycling Of EV Batteries in India: Opportunities and Challenges Battery recycling is a crucial aspect of the overall EV industry, and with high projected growth, it is anticipated that many opportunities will be available in this sector.…

Reduce. Reuse. And Then, When All Else Fails, Recycle. A municipal waste worker turns away another shipment of recycled materials littered with greasy pizza boxes and broken glass, sentencing this waste to slow death in a landfill without…

Plastic-Munching Bacteria Offer Hope for Recycling Our lakes, rivers and oceans are increasingly clogged with plastic, plus trillions of microscopic fragments thereof, from all the useful and disturbingly durable products made possible by…

Only 5% of Plastic Waste Generated by Us Last Year Was Recycled, Report Says Americans discarded 51m tons of plastic in 2021 – of which almost 95% ended up in landfills, oceans or scattered in the atmosphere Only 5% of the mountains of…