Category: Blog

  • Circularity & Recycling: Hazardous & Chemical Waste

    Circularity & Recycling: Hazardous & Chemical Waste

    Welcome to another Trash Talking Friday, the only trash talk that has been inducted into Modi’s new cabinet! Each week, I send you Ideas to ponder about. Ideas that have the potential to change your life, and hopefully help you become a better human being by understanding yourself. This week, in the Trash Talking News…

  • Textile & footwear waste: A guide to circularity & re-use

    Textile & footwear waste: A guide to circularity & re-use

    Welcome to another Trash Talking Friday, the only trash talk that has wrestled a bear to the ground, chilled with the great white shark in the middle of its feeding frenzy and whose rocket Bezos borrowed to travel to space! Each week, I send you Ideas to ponder about. Ideas that have the potential to…

  • Robotic Bees Are Being Used To Pollinate Fruits And Vegetables.

    Robotic Bees Are Being Used To Pollinate Fruits And Vegetables.

    Welcome to another Trash Talking Friday, the only trash talk that has been won an Olympic Gold for talking trash! Each week, I send you Ideas to ponder about. Ideas that have the potential to change your life, and hopefully help you become a better human being by understanding yourself. This week, in the Trash…

  • Jago India, Jago! The Importance of Measuring, Monitoring & Managing Waste

    Jago India, Jago! The Importance of Measuring, Monitoring & Managing Waste

    Data transparency, pertaining to waste is a massive challenge here India. As always, what does not get measured & monitored, does not get managed sustainably. From municipal waste, to hazardous, medical, e-waste & all sorts of recyclables, numbers are thrown out by the government & industry bodies, picked up by papers, consultants and quoted with…

  • What happens to your waste?

    What happens to your waste?

    Welcome to another Trash Talking Friday, the only trash talk that walks the talk! Each week, I send you Ideas to ponder about. Ideas that have the potential to change your life, and hopefully help you become a better human being by understanding yourself. This week I talk about, 1) different types of waste we collect…

  • Childhood, Mindset & Garbage

    Childhood, Mindset & Garbage

    In India traditionally, waste has been looked at in two distinct ways, one which you can sell to your local scrap dealer and the other which is kept at arm’s length to be dealt with by a certain class of individuals. As kids growing up, many, if not all of us have seen the familiar…

  • Eco Anxiety & Misinformation

    Eco Anxiety & Misinformation

    On Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin and various other social media platforms it is next to impossible to avoid articles and posts about how we are ruining our environment. Fast fashion, single-use plastic and now even eating red meat are all adding to the ever-growing noise about the effects of consumerism on the environment. Some individuals are…

  • PET Collection, Segregation, Value Addition & Aggregation Business: India

    PET Collection, Segregation, Value Addition & Aggregation Business: India

    Polyethylene terephthalate commonly known as PET or PETE is one the most commonly used thermoplastic polymer raisin used to manufacture soda bottles, shampoo containers, clothing and an assortment of other products. This article will shed light on the massive PET collection, segregation, pre-processing & aggregation market in India which is mostly dominated by the unorganised…

  • Green Washing & Myth Busting:

    Green Washing & Myth Busting:

    Welcome to another Trash Talking Friday, the only trash talk that worked with Scarface and did not get scared!  Each week, I send you Ideas to ponder about. Ideas that have the potential to change your life, and hopefully help you become a better human being by understanding yourself. This week I talk about, 1)…

  • The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag: Jim Corbett

    The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag: Jim Corbett

    If you have the urge to travel without leaving the comfort of your home, pick up any one of Jim Corbett’s books about his numerous true-life adventures of hunting down man-eaters in the mountainous regions of India. Corbett, who went from being a big game hunter to one the most famous wild like conservationist in…