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Posts tagged ‘India’

A Plastic Bottle Greenhouse

A middle school in rural India removes water bottle litter from a local forest picnic site, and uses the discarded bottles to construct a greenhouse. Saplings are grown in the greenhouse to help regenerate the same forest from which the plastic bottles came.

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India’s Recycling: Challenges and Lessons

Lacking comprehensive state-sponsored recycling ventures, India has recently experienced an outgrowth of programs sponsored by local and international organizations whose mandate is to raise awareness about environmental issues and to promote recycling programs in India. Suhasini Jayakumar’s article explores this recent trend.

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