The summer of 2022 brought an exciting opportunity for the Gaia Bharat team. We had an amazing opportunity to run our “Captain Planet Workshop” inspired by Captain planet who is the only superhero trying to save the earth from pollution from past eons. It is one of our initiatives toward Swachh Bharat Abhiyan at ‘Pragyan
Presently, much of the biodegradable waste is disposed of in an unsafe manner–burning, unscientific dumping, discharging into water bodies, throwing waste in open dumpsites. Bio-resources such as animal dung cakes, crop residue, and firewood are commonly used/burned as cooking fuel, causing indoor air pollution. The organisms involved in the stabilization of organic matter use about
There is no such thing as “away” when we throw anything away, it must go somewhere. We can no longer roll our eyes at a problem as major as this. The gravity of this issue is directly linked to the mismanagement by not only the people but the authorities themselves, which is not the case
We can all agree that we live in a bothersome pandemic situation. Maybe for some, the past year felt like someone hit the pause button of our lives and our world just stopped in a way. Monotony became the norm. We heard fewer honks by the vehicles as we roam out less. One might think
Gaia Bharat’s 2022 was nothing but amazing with the commencement of “Captain Planet Challenge 2021”, which was an initiative towards the problem of waste management as a part and contribution towards “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” which is a Clean Indian Mission a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India in 2014 to eliminate open defecation
Solid waste management (SWM) has risen to be one of the biggest developmental challenges in India. Several research studies point out that the practices of careless disposal of unsafe waste produce harmful gases, because of microbial decomposition, climate conditions, refuse characteristics, and land-filling operations. The growing population has emerged to become a gigantic production of