Samsung Electronics is recycling its old Galaxy smartphones into healthcare equipment for under-served people in India, Morocco, Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. Old phones will be remodeled as eyecare equipmentContinue Reading
Did you know that food waste accounts for more than 8% of all human-made greenhouse gas emissions? That amount makes it a significant contributor to climate change. There’s no betterContinue Reading
The Rail Wheel Factory (RWF) at Yelahanka has managed to save a huge quantity of a valuable natural resource like sand over the past one year, after installing a recyclingContinue Reading
India’s “informal” e-waste economy is built on generations of elaborate, sustainable waste disposal systems. Before laptops, there was telecom equipment, and before telecom, there were gold-coated watches, and before watches,Continue Reading
In 2019, barely four years after unprecedented floods brought Chennai to a halt, a severe water shortage hit India’s southern metropolis, and officials declared “Day Zero”. To save the cityContinue Reading
An alarming new study found dozens of “mystery chemicals” inside the bodies of pregnant women, leaving scientists both concerned and confused. Of the 109 unusual, human-made chemicals identified in theContinue Reading
Despite intensive efforts throughout history to extract gold from the Earth, best estimates suggest that to date only 190,000 metric tonnes of this precious metal have been mined. An amountContinue Reading
Entrepreneur Ankit Agarwal’s Phool.co (flower) which has received investment from the social arm of the Tata business group, employ’s more than 100 women who use to work as manual scavengersContinue Reading
