Tag: Waste Management
Jalandhar’s Meenal Verma is inspiring all to ‘go zero waste’
How will you react if someone knocks your door one fine morning and says, “Please close the tap in your backyard, it’s been open...
Fabindia’s journey of transforming trash to treasure
With over 100,000 metric tonnes of waste generated every day in India, waste management remains one of the biggest issues that the country is facing....
Waste to Wealth: Surat Gets India’s First Road Made from Steel Waste
Every year, 19 million tonnes of steel waste is produced by steel plants across the country. Most of this waste ends up getting accumulated...
CSR Initiative Modernising Education By Introducing Waste Management Curriculum
11th November is celebrated as National Education Day in India every year since 2008. The day is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of...
CSR News: STL Awarded with Zero Waste to Landfill Certification
Manufacturing waste and its disposal is one of the biggest environmental challenges across the globe. In India, landfilling continues to be a major cause...
CSR: Safai Bank of India – An Answer to Tackle MLP Waste
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has made the citizens of India conscious about careless disposal of plastic waste. Each section of the society is slowly but...
Four Methods Adopted by Corporates to Tackle Plastic Menace
According to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report, about 32 per cent of 78 million tones of annual plastic packaging production is being dumped...
Cargill reduces carbon footprint in India through sustainable packaging
Cargill’s oils business in India has redesigned its packaging by cutting down on the amount of raw plastic used across all products. In association...
Swachh Bharat Mission Choking Up Waste Treatment?
The World Bank estimates that more than a fifth of all communicable diseases in India (21%) are caused by contaminated water. According to a...
CSR: 5 Ways Businesses can contribute in reducing E-Waste
As our use of electronic devices and equipment has boomed in recent years, it has brought opportunities to create new jobs, tackle climate change...
CSR: Managing the E-Waste
While addressing the issue of waste management, it is very important to not overlook the increasing amount of e-waste that needs proper modes of...
CSR: Generating Energy From Waste
Landfills around the world are filling up. In 2016, over 2 billion tonnes of waste was generated globally. In the next 30 years, that...