Food waste – The duality of surplus and deficit

“There is food for everyone on this planet, but not everyone eats” – Carlo Petrini Over the course of time, we’ve understood that we humans have always been hungry. From Hungry for food, it quickly pivoted to Hungry for money. Hungry for love. Hungry for fame. Hungry for change. The list keeps going. It’s reached […]
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Sustainability & You

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it” – Robert Swan. The word “sustainability” is something that we’re all familiar with. Some of us hear it more often than others, depending on the environment we’re in. The word was used to describe the efficiency of a process- be […]
THE CHAMP BEHIND THE SCENES!

We all love to see our used juice and milk cartons recycled into beautiful benches, pen stands, note books, and several other useful products. This motivates us to collect and deposit more. But did you know that there’s an entire army of green soldiers working silently and diligently every day to ensure our cartons reach […]
Go Green with Tetra Pak Celebrates 10 Years

Go Green with Tetra Pak, an initiative by Tetra Pak in association with RUR Greenlife, Sahakari Bhandar and Reliance Fresh has made a magical impact in the Metropolis of Mumbai… Be it a child or adult, every eco-conscious Mumbaikar, knows that Tetra Pak cartons must be segregated and can be fully recycled. Thrilled to share […]
Podcast: How can waste be reduced in Mumbai, one of the biggest cities in the world?

Mumbai, a Mega city with a population of 20 million residents and several amenities, still lacks a functioning waste disposal system. This problem concerned Environmental Engineer Monisha Narke. She founded a Social and Environmental Enterprise “RUR GreenLife” in 2010, which aims at solving this problem in a decentralized manner. She observed that more than 70% […]
Life in Compost

Macro life in RGGC: If you have ever taken a fistful of compost in your hand it has a blissful fragrance of sweet earthy smell of first rain; but do you know why the compost smells so good? If not then you must know there is a family thriving in that little pile of your […]
Podcast: Multi Layer Packaging & its Recycling Challenges

Mrs. Monisha Narke discusses how we can move towards more sustainable packaging and the economics behind creating a circular economy model of packaging. She puts emphasis on how manufacturers should think of innovation in product design to make it more recyclable. She addresses the challenges of Packaging in the growing E Commerce market where plastic […]
CREATING GREEN RIPPLES!

Go Green with Tetra Pak is now ten years old, with a 35% percent growth in cartons collected every year! To what can we attribute this? Well, of course, to our green champs and their passion for recycling, but even more so to “Green Warriors” as we call them, who voluntarily take up the onus […]
THE CHAMP BEHIND THE SCENES!

THE CHAMP BEHIND THE SCENES! We all love to see our used juice/milk cartons recycled into beautiful benches, pen stands, note books and several other useful products. This motivates us to collect and deposit more. But did you know that there’s an entire army of green soldiers working silently and diligently every day to ensure […]