Cucumber Peel can be made into biodegradable packaging material
A team from IIT Kharagpur has discovered a biodegradable packaging material from the cucumber peels, which ends up as waste.
Combat Plastic Menace and Reduce Carbon Footprints with Kabaadey’s Eco-bricks
India is the second-largest brick manufacturer in the world. However, this has also resulted in affecting the environment adversely due to the huge production of bricks. To find a solution…
WASTE REDUCTION WEEK- THE CANADIAN WAY OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Waste Reduction Week (WRW) in Canada is a year-round initiative, this year it is celebrated from October 19-25. Countrywide numerous events took place to spread awareness regarding the importance of…
FREE OF PLASTIC, CLAN EARTH PROVIDES ECO-SUSTAINABLE VEGAN BACKPACKS
Sustainability as its core, Clan Earth, founded by Kolkata based entrepreneur, Priyanka Mandal is a startup that crafts eco-sustainable 100 per cent vegan backpacks with zero plastic. Clan Earth not…
THIS STARTUP FROM KERALA MAKES INNOVATIVE AND ECO-FRIENDLY STRAWS FROM PAPAYA STEMS
Greenik Sustainable Ventures of Thiruvanthapuram is one such organization that works towards sustainable solutions and has created straws made of papaya stem as an alternative of plastic
Eco-bricks By Pune Ploggers Repurpose Your Household Plastic Waste
Vivek Gurav, a techie and founder of Pune Ploggers during the lockdown initiated the concept of 'eco-bricks' by upcycling plastic. In the last five months, Gurav along with 250 volunteers…
This Pune-based entrepreneur makes bags out of waste plastic with Charkha
To introduce alternative sustainable practises in the masses, Pune-based, Amita Deshpande turned into an entrepreneur in 2015 and started making bags by upcycling the plastic waste. Till now, they saved…
WILL CASSAVA STARCH DISRUPT THE WAY WE USE PLASTIC?
Cassava starch is the starch extracted from the storage roots of the cassava plant. So what it does is, it has major content of starch and carbohydrates which are edible…
Rudra Combats Plastic Menace: Converting Plastic into fuel
Rudra Environmental Solutions based out of Pune is not only helping to fight the plastic menace but with the help of ThermoCatalytic Depolymerization technology, it is converting plastic into poly…
Assam Entrepreneur started Eco-Friendly Straws made up of Wheat Stubble
Sunam Taran, an entrepreneur based out of Assam has started making eco-friendly straws made up of wheat stubble.