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Take the #PlasticDetox challenge & find the best eco-friendly alternatives to plastic 
Lately, detox has become a part of our daily vocabulary. The simple meaning of this word would be cleansing or detoxing, or just flushing out negative elements from our body or society.  When it comes to our bodies, we are hooked with detox videos, blogs, articles, DIYs, we have tried and tested numerous methods for […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
12 Jun 2023
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Highlights Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
Incentivise plastic credits for the industry to combat plastic pollution
Plastic pollution has emerged as one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time, threatening ecosystems, marine life, and human health. Globally, the staggering statistics reveal a concerning reality: an estimated one million plastic bottles are purchased every minute, and approximately five trillion plastic bags are utilised annually. Shockingly, half of the total plastic […]
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By Manish Dabkara
03 Jun 2023
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Highlights Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
‘Stakeholders invested in reducing reliance on fossil fuels should pay close attention to the plastics crisis’
Global plastic production now amounts to some 400 million tonnes per year, as per United Nations Environment Programme. Yet only an estimated 12% of the plastics produced have been incinerated and only an estimated 9% have been recycled. About 8% of the world’s oil goes into plastic production and it’s going to rise to 20% […]
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By Smitha Verma
02 Jun 2023
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Highlights Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
‘Policy Changes And Alternatives To Plastic Is The Key To Beat Plastic pollution’
A 2019 study, led by Dr Thava Palanisami and other researchers at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, reported that humans are gobbling upto 5 grams of microplastics in their weekly diets — or about as much as the weight of an ATM card. Recognised globally by […]
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By Smitha Verma
01 Jun 2023
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Highlights Marine Pollution Plastic & Waste
Sculpting plastic trash into treasure
We produce more than 430 million tonnes of plastic annually, two-thirds of which are short-lived products that soon become waste, filling the ocean. And often, working their way into the human food chain. Overall, 46 per cent of plastic waste is landfilled, while 22 percent is mismanaged and becomes litter, according to the UNEP. In […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
01 Jun 2023
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The role of women in solid waste management 
Every year, an estimated 11.2 billion tonnes of solid waste is collected worldwide. And decay of the organic proportion of solid waste is contributing about 5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a UNEP report. In this episode of For Her Future, we have Divya Hegde, a climate action entrepreneur from Udupi, Karnataka. […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
24 May 2023
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Highlights Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
Plastic pollution can be reduced 80% by 2040: UN 
A new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) highlights how existing technologies and significant policy and market changes can help reduce plastic pollution by 80% by 2040. The report emphasises the importance of a circular economy and outlines specific strategies for governments and businesses to tackle the plastic pollution crisis. The report comes ahead […]
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By LMB Staff
18 May 2023
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Highlights Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
10 ways to reduce plastic at homes
Plastic pollution has emerged as an urgent environmental crisis, wreaking havoc on both our planet and our well-being. In order to safeguard our surroundings and seek sustainable alternatives, it is imperative that we take decisive action to curb plastic consumption within our own households. This article highlights ten effective ways aimed at minimising plastic usage. […]
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By Danish Alam
05 May 2023
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Highlights Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
Explained: The macro world of microplastics
Microplastics have emerged as a silent threat, causing immense harm to our planet and its delicate ecosystems. These minute pollutants originate from various sources, including plastic waste, microbeads, and degraded larger plastics. From the oceans to the soil, no corner of the Earth is spared from the insidious reach of microplastic. What are microplastics? Microplastics […]
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By Danish Alam
03 May 2023
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#WeForNature Air Pollution Animals & Wildlife
The year of climate storytelling
Climate Change looks like small words but the impact it has on the planet is unmissable. In 2022, we saw the worst of wildfires and flash floods, landslides and heatwaves. We heard people asking “What can I do about climate change?” Let Me Breathe told you what we can do together. The need to act […]
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By Smitha Verma
28 Dec 2022
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#WeForNature Agriculture Climate Change
Kolis of Mumbai and the struggle for survival
Koli fishing communities have been living and working along the coastal waters of Mumbai in Maharashtra in India, for over 500 years. Today, climate change has dealt a severe blow to their livelihood. For them, no fish means no food on the plate. “There’s only dirty sewage water and garbage, there’s no fish. This year […]
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By LMB Staff
19 Dec 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Clean Energy
Switching lifestyle for a better future
India’s theme at COP27 this year is LiFE – Lifestyle for Environment, an initiative that’s encouraging individual action against mindless consumption. Mission LiFE is a global plan of action launched, aimed at saving the planet. Replacing the ‘use-and-dispose’ economy with a circular economy, four youth champions from India are rewriting sustainability at COP27. “What change can one […]
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By Prachi Shevgaonkar
14 Nov 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Climate Change
Eliminating plastic waste brick by brick
Concerned by the increasing plastic waste issues in Indonesia, two women are taking on the environmental menace by converting rejected plastics into paving bricks! Their company, Rebricks has been making these paving bricks out of multi-layered plastic, which is used to package everything from instant coffee to liquid soap. They spent over one and a […]
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By Ovy Sabrina
14 Nov 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future COP27
Make bins popular, one trash at a time
While kids her age were running around throwing toffee wrappers on streets, this eight-year-old was picking trash and dumping it in a bin. Meet Misimi Isimi, a teenager from Lagos in Nigeria, who has been creating awareness of waste collection the past seven years. At 15, she’s not just a busy activist but is also […]
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By Misimi Isimi
11 Nov 2022
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#WeForNature Marine Pollution Plastic & Waste
Bali’s river warrior and the fight against plastic pollution
When Sam Bencheghib was all of 20, and a university student, he along with his brother Gary Bencheghib went out kayaking. But it was no ordinary kayak. They had built it using plastic bottles, and the river they paddled through was one of Indonesia’s most polluted rivers – Citarum River.  “We decided to kayak down […]
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By Smitha Verma
01 Nov 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Climate Change
Eco-friendly sanitation solutions using discarded plastics
It is a common sight to see people urinating in public places across India and the situation is aggravated by the lack of public sanitation facilities. Despite various initiatives by the government, the existing sanitation facilities don’t seem to meet the mark.  To tackle the problem of public urinals, Ashwani Aggarwal, founder of the start-up […]
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By Payel Sen
26 Oct 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Plastic & Waste
The teen on a mission to clean up Lagos
Misimi Isimi was just eight-years-old when she first started getting bothered by the waste around her neighbourhood. “Growing up it was difficult for me to breathe in society with a huge amount of waste littered everywhere,” says the Lagos resident. So she took up a broom and a trash bag and started cleaning. She did […]
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By Smitha Verma
13 Sep 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Climate Change
McCain sets out to procure planet-friendly food
McCain Foods, a leading frozen food provider, has adopted several planet-friendly practices in its businesses. In an exclusive interview, Debadatta Baxi, Regional Director, Communications & Sustainability, Human Resources – India, Korea, South East Asia & Taiwan, shares with Smitha Verma how the company is working with farmers and adopting sustainability as a corporate norm. Edited excerpts […]
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By Smitha Verma
02 Sep 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Climate Change
The journey of an accidental environmentalist
Every year India witnesses several million tonnes of plastic waste ending up in landfills. And the figures are only ever increasing. To tackle this grave crisis and make a difference, Pune-based environmentalist Dr. Medha Tarpatikar developed a solution that converts waste plastic into usable fuel. “We are accidental environmentalists. In 2009, we went to one […]
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By Payel Sen
25 Aug 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Plastic & Waste
This man is on a mission to heal the Himalayas
“Everybody who is coming to the mountains needs to understand that they have their duty towards the Himalayas, towards local communities, towards this beautiful ecology,” says Pradeep Sangwan, with the kind of conviction in his voice that echoes through the Himalayas. And he leads by example. An avid mountaineer and founder of Healing Himalayas Foundation, […]
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By LMB Staff
08 Aug 2022
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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Plastic & Waste
Waste as an art resource
Ever wondered those empty potato chips packets or PET bottles which you throw away can be used to make beautiful murals? The artist duo are transforming waste from seashores into beautiful murals. Sampda Mago and Giovanni Allegrini, backpackers from India and Italy, respectively, believe that each piece of trash has a story to tell. They […]
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By Nikita Bishnoi
30 Jun 2022
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Impact Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
The habit changer bags
Would we like to swap single-use plastic bags with cloth bags? We certainly do. We however often forget to carry cloth bags before heading out to shop?  What happens next? We are back with more single-use plastic bags.  A Delhi-based NGO ‘Why Waste Wednesdays’ created a method for people to borrow cloth bags from the […]
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By Nikita Bishnoi
17 May 2022
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Plastic & Waste Pollution Stories sustainability
UK set to conduct a plastic census
In an innovative and citizen engaging move, thousands of people in the UK will count their plastic waste for a week in a national survey to figure out how much they consume. Around 140,000 people across the UK are expected to participate in this survey. The count, put together by the organisation Everyday Plastic and […]
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By Sahil Sharma
16 May 2022
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#WeForNature Marine Pollution Plastic & Waste
The Environment is the Economy
When we reached Pangong Tso in Leh, Ladakh, I screamed with all my heart—THIS IS HEAVEN ON EARTH! I wondered if heaven is already on Earth, where we all hope to end up, why are we destroying the paradise we already have? Everything we have in our world today is derived from our planet. The […]
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By Garvita Gulhati
22 Apr 2022
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
United Nations Environment Programme is asking people to choose #BetterThanPlastic with this new AR Game
Every year, about 1.15 and 2.41 million tonnes of plastic waste enters the ocean from rivers and  Asian rivers are responsible for 86% of the total global input. All these rivers have a few key things in common: all of them run through areas where a lot of people live — hundreds of millions of […]
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By LMB Staff
04 Feb 2022
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution Uncategorized
Ganga Mashal Yatra: A flame to connect people with the Ganges and the need to beat plastic pollution
Journeying across the Gangetic belt UNEP’s CounterMEASURE project and National Mission for Clean Ganga in India collaborate with local development partners to celebrate India’s rivers and highlight solutions for plastic pollution in a series of offline events. Let’s choose #BetterThanPlastic #PlasticSeBehtar. Scroll through this photo story to see the highlights.
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By LMB Staff
03 Jan 2022
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
UNEP launches campaign in India urging people to choose #PlasticSeBehtar
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched its India campaign on Monday with a call to choose #PlasticSeBehtar.   To create awareness about the impact of plastic pollution and importance of making choices that are better than plastic [plastic se behtar] in India, UNEP’s CounterMEASURE project in collaboration with LetMeBreathe has launched a campaign focusing on […]
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By LMB Staff
22 Dec 2021
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution
It’s time to stop using that plastic cutlery
Plastic has become so abundant in our environment that it is now being detected in our air, drinking water, and even in unborn fetuses. Plastic is non Biodegradable and its consumption by our wildlife is deteriorating is killing them. Recently a cow was operated and 70 kg of plastic was removed. The streams in which […]
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By Aanchal Sharma
29 Jul 2021
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Plastic & Waste Plastic Pollution Waste & Recycling
Is recycling a major part of the solution?
I am sure almost all of us have heard the 5 R’s of the waste management system that is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair and Rot if not 5 then these 3 R’s for sure (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). If all of these used together a lot of waste management issues can be curbed but can we […]
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By Srishti Khurana
28 Jul 2021
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Eliminating plastic waste brick by brick
Concerned by the increasing plastic waste issues in Indonesia, two women are taking on the environmental menace by converting rejected plastics into paving bricks! Their company, Rebricks has been making these paving bricks out of multi-layered plastic, which is used to package everything from instant coffee to liquid soap. They spent over one and a […]
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By LMB Staff
10 Jul 2021