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Chhattisgarh: Students sending empty plastic wrappers to food companies as
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Ambikapur (Chhattisgarh) [India], Jan 1 (ANI): Asking food companies to use some biodegradable material for packaging food items rather than plastics, students of Holy Cross School here are sending empty wrappers of chips, biscuits and other food items to the companies through courier.
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Odisha: Miniature artist creates 'Welcome 2020' to raise awareness about n
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Khordha (Odisha) [India], Dec 31 (ANI): In order to create awareness about non-biodegradable waste in the country, a miniature artist from Odisha's Khordha scripted -- Welcome 2020 -- artistically inside a glass bottle using waste plastic fibre.
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Haryana-based company introduces environment-friendly shoes
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Panchkula (Haryana) [India], Dec 29 (ANI): In an environment-friendly move, a city-based company, that has been into shoe-making business for the last 25 years, have manufactured biodegradable shoes which are made of husks, sugarcane and eucalyptus.
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Edible coffee cups are the new thing to reduce waste
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 29 (ANI): Air New Zealand has come up with the idea of serving coffee in edible cups on its flights to minimise onboard waste production. It's not the first time that the national carrier of New Zealand has experimented with eco-friendly waste management solutions.
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Biodegradable, plastic-free 'Florish' sanitary napkins introduced in Haldw
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Haldwani (Uttarakhand) [India], Dec 7 (ANI): In a bid to spread awareness among women about menstrual hygiene and combat the crisis of environmental degradation, a nanotech company in Haldwani has come up with biodegradable 'Florish' sanitary napkins.
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Biodegradable sanitary napkins introduced in Shillong
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Shillong (Meghalaya) [India], Nov 21 (ANI): In a bid to make girls aware of the menstrual health, the women's college here conducted a special programme where they were told about hygiene products. A vending machine for manufacturing biodegradable napkin was also installed during the event.
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KVIC celebrates birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi with Laadlee and more
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Oct 01 (ANI/NewsVoir): Minister of MSME Nitin Gadkari launched Ladlee, Oxo Biodegradable sanitary pads manufactured by Deepanjan Charitable Trust, an NGO engaged in women's awareness and actively working towards Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, in partnership with Khadi and Village I
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Market, product diversification key to future of Indian plastic exports: D
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Sep 26 (ANI): The US decision to revoke Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) benefits to Indian goods has hit several plastic exporters but opportunities provided by the US-China trade war could offset this setback, global trade finance company Drip Capita
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McDonald's restaurants in West and South India eliminate all single-use pl
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] Sept 26 (ANI/NewsVoir): McDonald's restaurants in West and South India have replaced all single-use plastic with eco-friendly and biodegradable alternatives.
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46-feet tall, biodegradable Ganesha centre of attraction in Bhubaneswar
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India] Sept 4 (ANI): This Ganeshotsav, a Ganpati idol is a centre of attraction and devotion in Odisha's capital for two main reasons- it's 46-feet tall and is biodegradable.
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Green chemists find a way to produce eco-friendly items
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 18 (ANI): A team of green chemists are working on techniques to produce useful compounds from wood and other fast-growing non-edible plant waste, through a chemical process named xylochemistry.
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Waste food can be used to produce biodegradable chemical
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 23 (ANI): Engineers at the University of Waterloo have developed a technology that can help extract the biodegradable chemical from waste food that can be refined as a source of energy.
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