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
Commercial aviation industry is actively looking for green solutions in the form of sustainable jet fuel as they alone contributes around three percent of total global carbon emissions, and inContinue Reading
Reverse Logistics Group (RLG), a leading global service provider of comprehensive reverse logistics solutions launched its flagship campaign ‘Clean to Green’ in May 2020 and will be running till MarchContinue Reading
Half of the waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in India shut down soon after starting operations and the remaining plants are under scrutiny for environmental violations. There are several reasons these plantsContinue Reading
