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Hello everyone! My name is Shaurya Mishra. I am 10 years old, studying in 7th standard. I am a nature lover and always keen to save the environment. I developed the hobby of gardening from my late grandmother and now I am growing plants in my house by myself. I grew plants including mango, aloe vera, tulsi, chili, bitter gourd, heart-leaved moonseed (giloy). Sometimes my plants grew and sometimes they didn't, therefore, I asked my sister how to solve this problem. Then, she suggested me to use compost instead of normal soil as it is rich in nutrients and plants need nutrients to grow. After this, I learned to compost from her and now I am doing it for three months. I have made compost by two different methods and used it in growing three more plants. My mother doesn't usually segregate the waste and mix everything. I also made my mother aware of not mixing everything and segregating the food waste for my composting process. This is my story of environmental conservation. Thank...

Team Zero Waste By Nandini Dixit on July 23, 2020 The transient outer beauty rejuvenates ourselves, makes a person attractive and gives confidence. It gives a new level of comfortableness, brings social recognition and increases social status of a person. Beauty business is one of the leading businesses in the world with around 532 billion dollars . A theory was proposed by Professor Juliet Shor back in the 1990s named as the “ Lipstick effect ” which explains how during the economic recession, sales of beauty products had increased. At the time of distressing environment, people try to indulge themselves in purchasing little luxuries for emotional lift up and one of them includes cosmetics and beauty products. Cosmetics play an integral role in human life. Most cabinets inside a female domain are filled up with such items. An average woman uses 16 beauty products everyday which adds up to a phenomenal amount of its consumption on a global level. Despite the harmful effects of it, ...

Team Zero Waste   By Ankush Kumar on July 15, 2020 Waste management is one of the pressi ng issues, and this pandemic increases its seriousness to the next level. To understand this, we need to know several critical aspects of waste management, especially in the current COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we are mainly discussing plastics and biomedical waste (BMW) management. We focused on, the composition of waste generated during COVID-19, challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, the type of plastics produced in a pandemic, questioning of the waste management potential of India, basics question which may have in everyone's minds and few Do' s/Don't for general people/sanitation staff/waste processors.   Introduction: Solid waste may consist of domestic waste, sanitary waste, commercial waste, institutional waste, catering market waste, street sweep waste, BMW, non-residential waste. Biodegradable waste, non-biodegradable waste, and household hazardous waste come into...

Event Name: Share Your Story Motive: T o promote some inspirational stories Mode of event: Virtual Description:   Nature conservation is one of the biggest problems we are facing nowadays due to mismanagement between people's lifestyles and nature's syntax. Therefore, Team Zero Waste presents - "SHARE YOUR STORY" to promote some inspirational stories. If you have any story related to environmental conservation then inspire other people by sharing your story with us. The story will be featured on our Facebook and Instagram pages.   The rule for posting:  1) Write the story in a maximum of 500 words. 2) Send the picture of the person whose story you are sharing 3) You can also use illustrations like posters or videos to convey the story. write to us on teamzerowaste.iitb@gmail.com Event stories can be seen with the following links, 1) Our Blog Page 2) Our Facebook page

Composting series 1.0 Credit: Praroop Lodha 

Composting series 2.0  Credit: Nandini Dixit 

Composting series 3.0 Credit: Nandini Dixit