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RECYCLING NEWS
1 lakh cartons collected in Pune in the first half of 2025 as green initiative targets Tetra Pak waste
October 09, 2025 8:10 pm
A group of sustainability champions has found a new use for discarded Tetra Pak cartons—turn them into school benches and desks for pupils.
To create a circular economy, PLI for recycling needed alongside scheme for battery manufacturing: Attero Recycling CEO
November 12, 2023 7:24 am
In an interaction with Aggam Walia, Gupta highlighted the need for incentives for the recycling industry and dismissed South Korea’s concerns pertaining to BWMR, 2022 raised at WTO.
Diwali declutter: Pune firm is helping families get rid of unused objects
November 11, 2023 8:16 pm
This “declutter drive” was conducted in 13 housing societies in the city as part of a 'Responsible tyohar' campaign by ProEarth Ecosystems Private Limited
Plastic recycling is failing – here's how the world must respond
June 01, 2023 2:11 pm
Growing mountains of plastic waste are accumulating in the poorest countries as affluent nations such as the UK ship their recycling overseas. But some nations are importing far more plastic waste than they can possibly recycle.
Will recycling human poop help grow food sustainably?
May 15, 2023 10:23 am
Growing food with the help of our repurposed excrement may not ring with gourmet promise, but in some places around the world it is slowly becoming a thing — again.
Will we ever be able to recycle our clothes like an aluminum can?
December 05, 2022 3:20 pm
Up until now, most clothes marketed as made from recycled materials only contained a small percentage of recycled cotton or were made from water bottles, fishing nets and old carpets
New plastic upcycling tech can potentially cut greenhouse gas equivalent to 3 million cars
October 10, 2022 3:27 pm
Researchers have developed a method that can transform polyethylene (PE)—the most widely used plastic in the world— into polypropylene.
This Ganesh Chaturthi, clay recycling campaign to be launched in Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad
July 06, 2022 11:49 am
In a collaborative effort, 12 organisations are coming together to launch the campaign to collect clay sludge during Ganesh Chaturthi and send it back to the artisans.
Japan’s discarded kimonos get new life as redesigned casual wear
June 13, 2022 5:05 pm
Designers are repurposing high-quality fabric from cast off kimonos to make contemporary outfits more suited to today’s sensibilities and fashion. The transformation is as much an art as science
Earth Day: Why Attero Recycling is focusing on the problem of used EV batteries
April 22, 2022 3:12 pm
Lithium mining causes water depletion, ground destabilisation, biodiversity loss, the increased salinity of rivers and water bodies, and the contamination of soil.
RECYCLING PHOTOS
The Wagharis: The unlikely recyclers you don't know of
March 22, 2016 4:40 pm
A photo project on sustainable development focuses on the Waghari community, who exchange old clothes for utensils.
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