Personal Protection Equipment (PPE): A New World Of Waste

Hospitals are generating 6 times more medical waste than usual, during the COVID-19 pandemic. India, a country that never produced a single PPE achieved an unrealistic goal of manufacturing PPE daily after the outbreak of Corona.  In January, there were only 2.75 lakhs PPE kits available in the country, solely on the basis of imports. May 18, 2020 recorded the highest […]

Empowering Change: Powai Lake Cleanup Event

In honor of World Environment Day on June 5, 2023, Earth5R organized a remarkable event at Powai Lake.  With the help of devoted citizen volunteers, NSS volunteers, and the Earth5R team conducted a successful cleanup initiative to address the region’s urgent waste pollution problem.  The volunteers utilised the Earth5R App to streamline refuse segregation and assess the event’s […]

Earth Talk On Waste Management For School Children: Bangalore Earth5R

80 percent of the waste produced by houses comprise of compostable food and yard wastes which don’t harm the environment and can decompose, but these wastes are not sorted out and are mixed with non-biodegradable wastes and dumped into landfills which have filled up to 40 million tons in the past 50 years.  And the effort to […]