Coca-Cola hopes to achieve 100 pc recycling of bottles, cans in 2-3 yrs in IndiaRecycling post-consumer packaging is one of the three focus areas of Coca-Cola Company's ESG (Environment, Sustainability and Governance) p...
Pandemic impact: Companies start looking at workers’ well-being more closelyFactors such as enforcement, legal obligation, compliance, or law are simply not enough to bring equity and dignity to workers.
Mondelez India, TrashCon tie up to make furniture from recycled plasticThe pilot project will use the technology purchased from startup TrashCon, to convert over 600 tonnes of plastic waste per annum into plywo...
Non-profit organisations lead the fight against hungerThe Karnataka government's relief distribution during the Covid-19 lockdown has got massive support from non-profits and voluntary organisa...
Plastic waste in Bengaluru: BBMP, Hasiru Dala, UNDP set for a pactThe BBMP is in talks with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and waste management nonprofit Hasiru Dala to set up a Swachhta K...
City company ties-up with Canadian startup for mobile platform for recycling plasticReality, however, is that 32% of all plastic packaging escapes the collection systems and a mere 5% of companies in India source recycled p...
Tech companies, MNCs strive to recycle the waste they generateReal estate developer RMZ Corp's tech parks EcoWorld and Infinity have been able to reduce their percentage of mixed, or unsegregated, wast...
The Ragpicker's Dream! Buguri library hopes to create a space for childrenEven though many are unfamiliar with the concept of a library , these children are thrilled to have a space of their own.
Green note: This music fest may not result in tonnes of wasteEchoes of Earth, a world music festival will bringing 40 local, national and international artists together on Nov 26 and 27.
Electronic City gets a new waste water treatment unitThe Electronic City Industrial Township Authority (Elcita), which is the urban local body for Electronic City , has built the plant.
Shuchi Mitras set to tidy up waste mopup processes in BengaluruAfter more than a decade, the BBMP plans to revive the tried and tested system, if only to deal with the mounting garbage crisis.
Civic Body now moots training for its workers on waste segregationThe special commissioner for solid waste management in BBMP, Subodh Yadav, told ET the training will teach all the stakeholders what they a...
Civic body in Bengaluru now moots training for its workers on waste segregationThe training will address the breaks in the chain and ambiguities in responsibility,” said Sandhya Narayanan, spokesperson of Solid Waste M...
Composting sees green shoots as citizens tackle wasteIndividuals and communities are discovering that it is simple and interesting. The perception that composting is a cumbersome and dirty pro...
XSM to host 8th National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship at XLRI, Jamshedpur“The conference aims to provide a platform for showcasing, knowledge sharing and building the social entrepreneurship ecosystem,” said Shuk...
How Bengaluru plans to use its kitchen waste as industrial fuelThe waste from city kitchens will soon make its way to industries in better forms after they are processed at waste processing plants in th...
How Mindtree's Veena Rajappa's initiative cleaned her neighbourhood“I am not the person who would pick up the broom only for a day and then never look back at it. Instead, I try and understand why the stree...