Field Work Gallery

CSR and NGO field work, photographed where it happens.

This is Earth5R's CSR NGO work on the ground: cleanup drives, waste segregation, recycling and upcycling livelihoods, environmental education and community surveys. Every photo comes from an Earth5R programme delivered with a partner NGO, volunteers and local communities in Indian cities.

98,073community leaders

2.5Mcitizens mobilised

150major city areas

5,526distinct locations

1028 photos

Earth5R volunteers lined up under a community service banner on a nature trail — Team at a nature trail cleanup

Large group photo of children, mothers and volunteers in a community hall, Earth5R CSR programme — Large group photo of children, mothers and volunteers in a community hall

Saurabh Gupta with four Earth5R upcycled drum composting units ready for a housing society — Earth5R upcycled drum composting units

Earth5R founder speaking on a panel at a sustainability event — Panel discussion on a stage

Smiling volunteer in gloves picking litter from among plants, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Smiling volunteer in gloves picking litter from among plants

Woman waste worker in a hi-vis vest sorting dry waste under a shed in Mumbai — Waste worker sorting under a shed

Aerial view of dense rooftops covered with blue tarpaulins in an informal settlement — Aerial view of tarp-covered rooftops

Long line of volunteers in white T-shirts lined up on a road before a cleanup drive — Volunteers line up for a drive

Saurabh Gupta adding wet waste to an Earth5R drum composter during a residents demonstration in Mumbai — Adding wet waste to a drum composter

NIFT students and faculty with the Earth5R team after an upcycling workshop — NIFT students and faculty with Earth5R

Earth5R volunteers recording survey responses from a passer-by — Recording responses on the street

Volunteers holding a banner promoting eco-friendly products on a march — Eco-friendly products banner

Rows of handmade smiley-face dolls made from cloth scraps by women in a livelihood programme in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Handmade dolls from cloth scraps

Rooftop solar panels with the city in the background — Rooftop solar panels over the city

Earth5R volunteers with bags of waste collected during a World Environment Day cleanup — World Environment Day cleanup volunteers

Speakers addressing farmers at an organic farming conclave — Speakers at the farmers conclave

Children and women seated on the floor for an environmental session, Earth5R CSR programme — Children and women seated on the floor for an environmental session

Large corporate volunteer team gathered beside collected waste after a cleanup — Corporate volunteers after a drive

Earth5R volunteers talking with residents during a lane survey — Lane survey with residents

Earth5R volunteer explaining composting to residents in a society garden — Composting talk in a society

Saurabh Gupta speaking as a panelist at the Global Green Future Summit and Leadership Awards, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Saurabh Gupta on a CSR leadership panel

Saurabh Gupta with women making newspaper paper bags in their community lane, Earth5R CSR programme — Saurabh Gupta with women making paper bags

Earth5R volunteers at a scrap shop stacked with plastic containers — Scrap shop in a lane

Students lined along a lakeside railing after hauling out waste — Students lined along the railing

Earth5R volunteer holding a sign reading Making sustainability affordable for all in Mumbai — Volunteer holding a sign reading Making sustainability affordable for all

Earth5R and a Swiss corporate volunteer team with benches and desks made from recycled plastic for a municipal school — Recycled plastic benches and desks for a municipal school

Volunteers surveying a muddy dump site at the edge of the city — Site survey at a dump

Volunteers planting saplings on an open grassy field under a cloudy sky — Planting on an open grassy field

Plastic and glass bottles sorted into piles after a cleanup — Bottles sorted for recycling

International volunteer speaking to television media during an Earth5R cleanup — International volunteer interviewed by media

Earth5R volunteer teaching a class beside a blackboard — Volunteer teaching by a blackboard

Women producing paper bags from newspaper together in their community, Earth5R CSR programme — Community paper bag production

Residents seated under a red tent at a zero waste community meeting in Powai, Mumbai — Residents at a zero waste meeting

Earth5R volunteers walking through a narrow lane with residents during an awareness visit — Walking through a lane with residents

Earth5R volunteers talking with residents at an outdoor collection drive — Talking with residents on site

Waste collector pulling a handcart along a tree-lined street at dawn — Waste collector with a handcart

Earth5R team planning local sustainability solutions on a chart with citizens and experts — Planning local solutions with citizens and experts

Two Earth5R volunteers holding cloth bags in a market lane to promote plastic alternatives in Mumbai — Promoting cloth bags in a market lane

Earth5R founder Saurabh Gupta, team leader Sonam Senger, volunteers Madhavi Ninganu, Shriyam Jalan with bags of waste collected under a flyover — Cleanup under a flyover

Schoolchildren raising their hands to answer during a session in the school garden — Schoolchildren raise hands in the garden

Saurabh Gupta building an Earth5R upcycled drum composter from an industrial container — Saurabh Gupta builds an upcycled drum composter

Volunteers collecting beach waste into bags on the sand — Bagging waste on the sand

Earth5R volunteers walking along a heritage street lined with palms on a city walk — Volunteers on a heritage city walk

Volunteer drawing a programme diagram on a whiteboard during a training workshop — Mapping a plan on a whiteboard

Volunteers collecting litter in bags along a park path — Park path cleanup

Earth5R volunteers presenting waste segregation with dustbins at a table in a hall — Bin demonstration at a table

Earth5R volunteer recording water storage drums in a slum lane during a survey — Water drums in a lane

Earth5R volunteer team ready for a weekend lake cleanup — Earth5R team ready for a lake cleanup

Earth5R volunteer handing an awareness leaflet to a resident outside her home — Handing out awareness leaflets door to door

Earth5R volunteers talking to a woman at the doorway of a pink house during a household survey — Door-to-door survey at a pink house

Earth5R volunteers on the Yamuna riverbank during a river cleanup in Delhi — Earth5R team on the Yamuna riverbank

Earth5R volunteers demonstrating composting in blue trays to residents in Mumbai — Composting demonstration in blue trays

Small child pressing soil around a newly planted sapling — Small child pressing soil around a sapling

Earth5R team training a waste collector on plastic recovery in the Mithi River catchment, Mumbai — Training waste collectors on plastic recovery, Mithi River

Volunteers clearing waste from a road edge beside parked cars — Clearing a road edge

Earth5R facilitator addressing children and women seated in a hall — Facilitator addressing children and women seated in a hall

Workers sorting plastic and paper inside a small scrap shop in Mumbai — Sorting at a scrap shop

Volunteers loading collected waste into a large bin after a cleanup — Loading waste into a bin

Housekeeping staff adding wet waste to an Earth5R upcycled drum composter in a housing society — Housekeeping staff using an Earth5R drum composter

Sapling watered by a recycled plastic bottle drip irrigator — Bottle drip irrigation for a sapling

Delegates discussing a project poster at an exhibition stand at the Paris Peace Forum — Discussing a poster at the Paris Peace Forum

Volunteers picking waste along a river bank in a park — Picking waste along a river bank

Rows of school students seated in an auditorium for an Earth5R talk — Students in an auditorium

Woman volunteer in a plastic recycling workshop with a machine and stacked bags — Inside a plastic recycling workshop

Earth5R volunteers carrying bags of collected waste across an open field in Mula Mutha River, Pune — Collecting waste in a field

Group photo of women participants and Earth5R team in a community hall, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Group photo of women participants and Earth5R team in a community hall

Earth5R team on stage receiving recognition at an awards ceremony — Award on stage

Litter strewn across a road after monsoon rain — Litter strewn across a road after rain

Earth5R volunteers Sonam Sengar, Shriyam Jalan, Manasi and residents in a housing society garden after a plantation workshop — Society garden after a plantation workshop

Earth5R volunteer addressing women seated on the floor of a community hall in Powai, Mumbai — Addressing women in a community hall

Volunteers filling a black bag with waste on a stone ledge by a lake — Bagging waste on a ledge

Earth5R volunteer with women residents outside homes during a door to door visit — Volunteer with women residents outside homes

Hands folding and gluing paper to make bags, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Hands folding and gluing paper to make bags

Earth5R volunteers crouching to pick litter on a grassy slope in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Picking litter on a slope

Earth5R volunteer standing with women outside their homes after a livelihood session in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Women with a volunteer outside homes

College students in a classroom for an Earth5R sustainability session — College classroom session

Earth5R volunteers picking litter on a highway verge by a green road sign — Highway verge cleanup

Corporate volunteers gathering on open ground at the start of a cleanup drive — Volunteers gathering on site

Earth5R volunteers with blue compost drums in a society yard in Powai, Mumbai — Compost drums in a society yard

Earth5R volunteers picking up litter along a forest road in Mumbai — Volunteers picking up litter along a forest road

Plastic waste recovered from a pond laid out beside the water — Plastic recovered from a pond

Earth5R volunteers meeting women residents in a crowded lane during community outreach in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Volunteers meeting women residents in a lane

Earth5R volunteers Sonam Sengar and Madhavi Ninganu collecting nylon and plastic waste from the Mula Mutha river in Pune — Collecting nylon and plastic from the river

Green wheelie bin for segregated waste in a residential building lobby — Wheelie bin in a building lobby

Earth5R volunteer explaining recycling to a citizen on a tablet near the Red Fort, Delhi — Explaining recycling to a citizen

Long line of waste collected by volunteers laid along a lakeside wall — Collected waste lined along a lakeside wall

Earth5R volunteer with a laptop talking to residents and children during a community survey — Volunteer with a laptop talking to residents and children

Students in uniform writing at their desks during an Earth5R classroom session — Students writing in class

Woman and Earth5R volunteers mixing compost into blue crates of plants in Mumbai — Mixing compost into planting crates

Earth5R volunteer reaching over a railing into hyacinth-choked water to pull out waste in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Clearing waste from water hyacinth

Volunteers and workers in hi-vis vests around buckets of sorted waste at a dry waste centre in Mithi River, Mumbai — Sorting at a dry waste centre

Citizen writing a climate solution idea on a chart at an Earth5R street hackathon in Mumbai — Citizen writes a climate idea at a street hackathon

Plastic waste scattered across a dumping site before an Earth5R cleanup — Littered dump site

Two Earth5R volunteers on a tarp with sorted waste and data forms — Recording waste audit data

Saurabh Gupta training seated residents on zero waste living at a housing society event in Powai, Earth5R CSR programme — Zero waste training at a society event

Volunteers clearing waste from a grassy lake bank — Clearing a lake bank

Children seated together with Earth5R volunteers during a community environment session in Powai, Mumbai — Children in a community session

Earth5R using music to share the plastic message with municipal school children before building ecobrick gardens in Mumbai — Music and plastic awareness at a municipal school

Earth5R volunteers clearing litter from an open plot beside a building — Clearing an open plot

Young children planting saplings in a school garden — Children planting in the garden

Volunteers crossing a shallow rocky stream in the forest on a nature walk in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai — Crossing a rocky forest stream

Earth5R volunteers in black T-shirts cleaning a dusty, littered patch of open ground — Cleaning a dusty littered patch

Women folding waste newspaper into paper bags during Earth5R livelihood training — Women fold newspaper into paper bags

Delegates in discussion with the Earth5R team at the Paris Peace Forum — Discussion at the project space

Aerial view of a huge festival immersion crowd and vehicles by the sea, a major source of festival waste — Festival crowd by the sea from above

Earth5R volunteer talking with morning walkers on a lakeside promenade — Talking with walkers on the promenade

Earth5R team discussing plastic recovery targets with local collectors at the Mithi River in Mumbai — Plastic recovery team at the Mithi River

Volunteers in white T-shirts clearing waste on an overgrown slope — Clearing a grassy slope

Children gathered with an Earth5R volunteer in a lane beside a blue house — Children and volunteer by a blue house

International volunteers working with local women on a fabric upcycling session, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — International volunteers working with local women on a fabric upcycling session

Earth5R volunteers clearing waste along a canal edge — Clearing waste along a canal edge

Earth5R volunteers and about 15 residents gathered in a lane for a community meeting — Lane meeting with residents

Earth5R volunteers in a planning meeting in a small community room — Volunteer meeting in a room

Waste worker standing on a large garbage heap at an open dump in Mumbai — Worker on a garbage heap

Earth5R volunteers holding an awareness placard on a city pavement — Awareness placard on the street

Buckets and sacks of sorted materials at a dry waste centre in Mithi River, Mumbai — Buckets and sacks of sorted dry waste

Group of volunteers with I'm Earth badges before a cleanup drive, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Group of volunteers with I’m Earth badges before a cleanup drive

Volunteers planting saplings in freshly dug soil — Planting saplings in dug soil

Stalls under orange canopies at an Earth5R eco market on a city road — Eco market stalls

Smiling Earth5R team and student volunteers at the Powai Lake cleanup in Mumbai — Earth5R team and volunteers at Powai Lake

Masked resident putting waste into a blue drum labelled Plastic Waste for Recycling in a lane — Resident with a plastic recycling drum

Children and volunteers sitting together at an upcycling workshop, Earth5R CSR programme — Children and volunteers sitting together at an upcycling workshop

Student volunteers pulling waste up a muddy lake bank in a human chain — Pulling waste up the bank

Earth5R volunteers kneeling to plant a sapling in an open field — Planting a sapling together

NIFT students making new products from waste materials in an Earth5R upcycling workshop — NIFT students make products from waste

Earth5R volunteer with a local ragpicker who collects waste from the Yamuna River on his raft in Delhi — Earth5R volunteer with a Yamuna ragpicker

Earth5R volunteer with a bicycle on a waterfront wall during a cycling awareness ride in Mumbai — Volunteer on a cycling awareness ride

Woman showing an upcycled newspaper product at a livelihood workshop — Showing upcycled paper work

Volunteers wading into the shallows to pull waste from a lake — Wading into the shallows

Waste workers segregating recyclables at a Mumbai material recovery facility visited by the Earth5R team — Waste workers segregating recyclables

Saplings planted in compost from zero waste buildings for the Earth5R rooftop plantation programme in Mumbai — Saplings in compost from zero waste buildings

Young volunteer holding a garbage bag during a cleanup in a green patch in Mulund West, Mumbai — Boy holding a litter bag

Earth5R volunteers explaining a chart to school students under a tree — Volunteers explaining a chart to school students under a tree

Two blue compost bins filled with finished compost and soil — Compost bins filled with soil

Floating trash boom stretched across a river beneath a bridge — Trash boom across a river under a bridge

Large heap of mixed scrap and recyclables in a recycling godown — Heap of scrap in a recycling godown

Earth5R volunteer meeting a family at their doorstep during outreach — Volunteer meeting a family at their doorstep

Volunteers walking along a lakeside promenade on a cloudy monsoon day — Volunteers on a lakeside promenade

Volunteers registering and weighing collected waste at an outdoor desk in Mumbai — Registering collected waste

Earth5R Green Citizens volunteers at a public event where they train citizens on circular economy — Earth5R volunteers at a public training event

Young child volunteer and cofounder of Earth5R Jahaan Gupta with an I'm Earth badge holding a garbage bag during a cleanup, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Young child volunteer and cofounder of Earth5R Jahaan Gupta with an I’m Earth badge holding a garbage bag

Earth5R volunteers beside a red power generator during a site visit — Generator at a site visit

Crowd walking along a palm-lined waterfront road during an awareness walk — Awareness walk on a waterfront road

Students with backpacks gathering on the sand for a beach cleanup — Students gather for a beach cleanup

Group photo of the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub workshop in Bengaluru with Saurabh Gupta of Earth5R — UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub workshop group

Hundreds of students seated in a school hall for an Earth5R session — Students fill a school hall

Local child helping an Earth5R volunteer on a weekend cleanup at Powai Lake, Mumbai — Children join a weekend lake cleanup

Earth5R volunteer writing field notes on a grassy hillside in Delhi — Field notes on a hillside

Earth5R volunteer holding a lion painting made with a natural medium in Mumbai — Volunteer holding a lion painting made with a natural medium

Volunteers picking waste from grass beneath a footbridge in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Cleanup under a footbridge

Woman in an orange sari planting saplings in blue crates with Earth5R volunteers in Mumbai — Woman plants saplings in crates

Students gathered around the edge of a pond during a cleanup drive — Students around the pond

Waste picker standing beside a large garbage heap on a street — Waste picker beside a garbage heap

Earth5R team in a meeting with housing society members around a table in Powai, Mumbai — Meeting with society members

Earth5R volunteers holding a hand-drawn awareness chart outdoors — Volunteers with a hand-drawn chart

Residents by a large garbage heap as a bulldozer clears the black spot behind them — Clearing a garbage heap with a bulldozer

Earth5R training Hexaware employees on waste segregation and circular economy before a Juhu beach cleanup in Mumbai — Training Hexaware employees on segregation

Earth5R volunteers holding up awareness posters for residents in a lane — Showing posters to residents

Polluted creek with dumped debris on its banks — Polluted creek with dumped debris

Corporate volunteers bagging waste on a canal side lawn — Bagging waste by the canal

Students seated in a classroom for an Earth5R environment session — Session in a classroom

Students in white tops picking plastic from a stone embankment in Mumbai — Students pick plastic on an embankment

Bottle caps and wrappers from a brand audit

International volunteers making small dolls from fabric scraps, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — International volunteers making small dolls from fabric scraps

Volunteers working at the base of a lakeside wall — Volunteers at the lake wall

Students digging a garden bed at their school with Earth5R volunteers — Students digging a garden bed

Woman worker in a hi-vis vest sorting recyclables at a dry waste centre in Mumbai — Woman worker sorting recyclables

Shoreline covered in plastic waste before an Earth5R beach cleanup — Plastic-choked shoreline

Women seated along a lane for an awareness session with an Earth5R volunteer — Women seated for a lane session

Earth5R trainer showing women how to cut and drain upcycled plastic containers as planters in Mumbai — Making planters from plastic containers

Volunteer collecting waste among trees beside a lake — Waste collection by the lake

Rows of residents seated under a canopy at an Earth5R awareness event in Powai, Mumbai — Audience under a canopy

Close-up of recovered plastic waste being sorted into buckets by a waste collector, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Recovered plastic sorted into buckets

Open dumping ground on vacant land with scattered waste, a problem site for waste management work — Open dumping on vacant land

Smiling boy holding up his drawing at a community workshop, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Smiling boy holding up his drawing at a community workshop

Participants at round tables during an Earth5R workshop with a projector screen — Round table workshop

Earth5R volunteers walking with garbage bags during a cleanup drive in a green forest park in Mumbai — Volunteers walking with garbage bags

Earth5R volunteers in a train the trainer session with a citizen in front of the Red Fort, Delhi — Train the trainer session at the Red Fort

Volunteers geotagging newly planted trees on the Earth5R app to submit plantation data in Mumbai — Geotagging plantation data on the Earth5R app

Waste collector recovering plastic bottles from the Mithi River bank during Earth5R plastic recovery work in Mumbai — Recovering plastic bottles from the riverbank

Solar-powered monitoring device being assembled for Earth5R river work — Solar-powered river monitor

Hands sorting a pile of plastic and glass bottles for a waste audit — Sorting bottles for a waste audit

Student volunteers collecting waste into bags at an Earth5R lake cleanup — Students collect waste at a lake cleanup

Earth5R team at a waste management and material recovery facility in Mumbai — Earth5R team at a material recovery facility

Volunteer sitting beside the word Earth spelt out in pebbles on open ground — Earth spelt out in pebbles

Excavator on a barge clearing waste and weeds from a lake — Excavator barge clearing a lake

Earth5R volunteers talking with a worker in a scrap godown stacked with sacks — Talking with recyclers in a scrap godown

Volunteers sorting bottle caps and wrappers for an Earth5R waste audit that feeds its field data — Sorting bottle caps for a waste audit

Earth5R volunteers clearing litter along a lakeside covered in water hyacinth — Lakeside cleanup among water hyacinth

Shopkeeper in a toy shop holding up a reusable bag offered in place of plastic — Shopkeeper with a reusable bag

Earth5R logo in the sand at Juhu

River polluted with waste flowing under a bridge, an Earth5R monitoring site — River under a bridge

Women and children making upcycled products on the floor with Earth5R volunteers — Upcycling session on the floor

Volunteers clearing waste along a fence line during a corporate cleanup — Clearing waste by a fence

Earth5R volunteers after a beach cleanup drive — Beach cleanup volunteers

Young woman with a plant and a chalkboard reading I won't litter coz #ImEarth, Earth5R CSR programme — Young woman with a plant and a chalkboard reading I won’t litter coz #ImEarth

Earth5R volunteers in conversation with sanitation staff on a street in Mithi River, Mumbai — Talking with sanitation staff

Earth5R volunteer picking litter on a slope beside a canal wall — Litter pick by a canal wall

Children drawing and crafting on waste paper sheets during an Earth5R activity in Powai, Mumbai — Children drawing on waste paper

Saurabh Gupta showing residents the wrongly segregated waste from their building bin, Earth5R CSR programme — Showing residents what is in their bin

Earth5R volunteer meeting a group of women residents in a lane — Women residents with an Earth5R volunteer

Earth5R volunteer carrying used event banners for upcycling after a zero waste corporate event in Mumbai — Event banners collected for upcycling

Overflowing garbage bin and spilled waste at a street corner in Mumbai — Overflowing bin at a street corner

Wide view of residents gathered around newly potted plants in a turquoise-walled lane in Mumbai — Residents gather around potted plants

Earth5R volunteers with students outside a municipal school building — Visit to a municipal school

Earth5R founder Saurabh Gupta training residents and building staff on segregation in a Powai residential lobby, Earth5R CSR programme — Training residents and staff in a building lobby

Earth5R volunteer pulling floating waste out of a pond beside Powai Lake, Mumbai — Pulling floating waste from a pond

Earth5R volunteers with a woman and her stock of paper bags made through the livelihood programme — Volunteers with a paper bag entrepreneur

Students in an auditorium taking part in an Earth5R awareness session in Bengaluru outskirts, Bengaluru — Students in an auditorium session

Volunteers in gloves cleaning beside a lake wall — Volunteers in gloves by a lake wall

Women applying homemade organic gum to make eco-friendly paper bags from newspaper, Earth5R CSR programme — Women use homemade gum to make paper bags

Earth5R volunteers briefing professionals on responsible consumption at a public event — Briefing professionals on responsible consumption

Volunteers sorting multilayer plastic wrappers during the Powai Lake cleanup waste segregation, Earth5R CSR programme — Sorting multilayer plastic at Powai Lake

Saurabh Gupta presenting on sustainable banking to SIDBI officers, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai by Saurabh Gupta — Sustainable banking presentation to SIDBI

Volunteers sorting piles of collected waste on an open field — Sorting waste piles on an open field

Earth5R volunteers gathered around collected waste after a forest cleanup in Mumbai — Volunteers gathered around collected waste after a forest cleanup

Visiting volunteers surrounded by residents and children in a busy lane, Earth5R CSR programme — Visiting volunteers surrounded by residents and children in a busy lane

Earth5R volunteers collecting plastic bottles for recycling at the Xynteo zero waste event in Mumbai — Collecting bottles at the Xynteo zero waste event

Waste piled on a street corner beside a gated entrance before a cleanup in Mumbai — Waste on a street corner

Trainer guiding a woman at a sewing machine during livelihood skills training — Tailoring training

Hand holding an Earth5R Community card next to a bag of collected plastic waste — Earth5R community card with collected plastic

Aerial view of a dark river with a line of floating waste held along the bank — Aerial view of a trash boom line

Earth5R volunteers running an outdoor environmental workshop for school children with charts — Outdoor environmental workshop for school children

Two young women holding I will not litter because I'm Earth posters, Earth5R CSR programme — Two young women holding I will not litter because I’m Earth posters

Families and volunteers planting saplings on a hillside slope — Families at a plantation drive

Students and Earth5R volunteers walking under large trees on a forest nature trail in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai — Students on a forest nature trail

Women residents seated together at an Earth5R community meeting in Powai, Mumbai — Women at a community meeting

Earth5R volunteers in I'm Earth T-shirts sorting collected waste beside a large sack — Sorting collected roadside waste

Masked Earth5R volunteer talking with women and children in a narrow lane — Talking with women and children in a lane

Saurabh Gupta of Earth5R training residents on waste segregation in a residential building lobby — Saurabh Gupta trains residents on segregation

Earth5R volunteers planning waste segregation on the Yamuna riverbank in Delhi — Planning segregation on the Yamuna riverbank

Earth5R volunteers with an umbrella visiting residents in a muddy lane during the monsoon in Mumbai — Monsoon visit to a muddy lane

Earth5R volunteers with residents beside compost drums in a society garden — Composting visit with residents

Women and volunteers working together on paper bag making at a home workshop in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Women learning paper bag craft

Children holding up pledge cards with Earth5R volunteers in a community hall — Children with pledge cards

Packed plenary hall at the Paris Peace Forum where Earth5R presented its project — Plenary at Paris Peace Forum

Earth5R facilitator holding up an upcycled paper bowl in front of a large audience of children and women — Facilitator holding up an upcycled paper bowl in front of a large audience of children and women

Earth5R volunteer speaking with a young child during a community awareness visit — Talking with a young child

Discarded plastic bottle lying in green grass — Plastic bottle dumped in grass

Earth5R volunteer and children making newspaper craft sitting on the ground outdoors — Volunteer and children making newspaper craft sitting on the ground outdoors

Earth5R team installing a solar street light for Hexaware's SolarOne CSR project in Navi Mumbai — Installing solar street lights for Hexaware’s SolarOne project

Cleanup volunteers posing on a park path beside bags of collected waste, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Cleanup volunteers posing on a park path beside bags of collected waste

Students working in groups at their desks during an Earth5R lesson — Group work in class

Young volunteers in gloves and lanyards examining collected plastic for a waste audit — Students examine collected plastic

Volunteers filling black bags with waste on littered open ground — Bagging waste on open ground

TV camera crew interviewing an Earth5R volunteer on a bridge beside a wetland — TV crew interviews a volunteer

Women and an Earth5R volunteer seated on the floor making newspaper bags together — Making newspaper bags together

Volunteers walking a park walkway during a cleanup in Mumbai — Cleanup on a park walkway

Saurabh Gupta and the Earth5R team as panelists at the TISS National Seminar on Gender and Climate Change in Mumbai — Earth5R at the TISS seminar on gender and climate change

Earth5R speaker addressing a large school assembly in a hall — Addressing a school assembly

Woman adding string handles to eco-friendly paper bags for local shops, Earth5R CSR programme — Adding handles to paper bags

Children and Earth5R volunteers holding up upcycled paper bowls in a group photo, Earth5R CSR programme — Children and Earth5R volunteers holding up upcycled paper bowls in a group photo

Volunteers walking along a lakeside embankment during a cleanup — Walking a lakeside embankment

Earth5R volunteers with recovered waste laid out for a waste audit by the lake in Mumbai — Volunteers with a waste audit display

Children folding newspaper into paper bags at an Earth5R upcycling activity — Making paper bags from newspaper

Children holding saplings for the Earth5R rooftop plantation programme in their settlement in Mumbai — Children with saplings for rooftop planting

Earth5R team visiting a municipal ward office for a waste management meeting — Visit to a municipal office

Earth5R volunteers clearing waste along a lake promenade — Clearing waste along a lake promenade

Girls working on upcycled crafts on the floor of a home with an Earth5R volunteer in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Crafting on the floor at home

Earth5R volunteer sitting with a woman at her doorstep to fill in a household survey form — Filling a survey form at a doorstep

Earth5R volunteer guiding a group of boys working on environmental worksheets — Volunteer guiding a group of boys working on environmental worksheets

Residents gathered around a blue segregation bin in their society — Residents around a segregation bin

Smoke from waste burning on open land, documented by Earth5R volunteers — Burning waste on open land

Schoolboys raising their hands to answer during an Earth5R session — Students raise their hands

About 50 corporate volunteers in blue T-shirts seated for an Earth5R briefing — Corporate volunteers at a briefing

Volunteers picking litter along a highway verge — Highway verge litter pick

Earth5R team with local waste collectors in safety vests after plastic recovery training at the Mithi River in Mumbai — Earth5R team with trained waste collectors, Mithi River

Volunteer filming a group session on the lawns of a park — Filming a nature session

Volunteers holding a banner promoting recyclable and eco-friendly products — Banner for recyclable products

Earth5R team and Saurabh Gupta with Godrej Chairman Nadir Godrej at the JSW Earth Care Awards in Mumbai — Earth5R team with Nadir Godrej at the JSW Earth Care Awards

Children writing in notebooks with volunteers during a workshop, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Children writing in notebooks with volunteers

Hands working on an upcycled craft made from waste material — Upcycled craft in progress

Trainee explaining a hand-drawn programme diagram on a whiteboard at an Earth5R workshop — Explaining a programme diagram

Earth5R volunteers wearing masks and gloves collecting waste on a city street — Volunteers wearing masks and gloves collecting waste on a city street

Earth5R volunteers training families on waste management in a public space near the Red Fort, Delhi — Training families on waste management near the Red Fort

Mumbai college principals, leaders and teachers after an Earth5R sustainability training — Sustainability training for Mumbai college leaders

Screen at Google Playtime Singapore highlighting the Earth5R app among recognised apps — Earth5R app highlighted by Google at Playtime Singapore

Child pressing soil around a newly planted sapling — Child planting a sapling

Large group of volunteers gathered for an Earth5R cleanup drive — Volunteers gather for a cleanup drive

Volunteer checking compost in a blue drum at a housing society — Compost drum in a society

Earth5R speaker presenting to an audience in a seminar room — Training talk in a seminar room

Earth5R volunteers in masks with bags of waste collected during a cleanup — Volunteers with collected waste bags

Earth5R volunteers sitting with children on the ground for an environment session in a residential lane — Children’s session in a lane

Worker bending over to sort plastic bags at the roadside — Sorting plastic bags at the roadside

Mixed plastic waste dumped across open land, a black spot targeted by Earth5R cleanups — Waste dumped on open land

Earth5R volunteer visiting a brightly painted preschool classroom — Visit to a preschool

Volunteers sorting collected materials on the floor of a community space — Sorting materials indoors

Earth5R team member inspecting a cleanup site beside a river — Inspecting a river cleanup site

Women seated on the floor making crafts from waste material in an Earth5R workshop in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Women making crafts from waste material

Saurabh Gupta training security and housekeeping staff on waste segregation in a building lobby, Earth5R CSR programme — Training security and housekeeping staff

Earth5R volunteer pulling waste from water hyacinth at a lakeside cleanup in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Lake cleanup among hyacinth

Earth5R volunteers Sonam Sengar and Shriyam Jalan and founder Saurabh Gupta on a community outreach day — Earth5R volunteers on outreach

Volunteers and staff working among sacks inside a dry waste sorting centre in Mumbai — Inside the sorting centre

Earth5R volunteers clearing waste along a residential road beside parked cars — Cleanup on a residential road

Earth5R team with international delegates at the Paris Peace Forum — Meeting delegates at the stand

Women and Earth5R volunteers planting saplings together in upcycled planters in Mumbai — Women plant saplings with Earth5R volunteers

Volunteers passing buckets of waste out of a pond — Bucket brigade at the pond

Presentation to international students in a hall, with slides on screen, Earth5R CSR programme — Presentation to international students in a hall, with slides on screen

Participants seated in small groups on a park lawn during an Earth5R session — Groups on the lawn

Volunteer picking waste from grass at the edge of a lake — Lakeside cleanup in the grass

Earth5R volunteers training settlement residents on saving, bank accounts and the rooftop plantation programme in Mumbai — Financial literacy and plantation training

Earth5R volunteer speaking to seated children beside a flipchart — Volunteer speaking to seated children beside a flipchart

Woman in a pink headscarf beside new green and blue bins for segregated waste — Resident beside new segregation bins

Hands guiding upcycled cloth through a sewing machine during a skills training session — Stitching upcycled cloth on a sewing machine

Residents and volunteers gathered in a courtyard for an Earth5R awareness session in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Gathering in a building courtyard

Students working in a human chain to clear waste from a lake edge — Human chain at the lake

Earth5R volunteers running a waste collection stall beside a market — Collection stall in a market

Earth5R volunteers in 5R T-shirts leading a training circle with citizens on the lawns in Delhi — Training circle with citizens in Delhi

Gloved hands picking up broken glass and a wrapper during an Earth5R cleanup — Picking up broken glass and litter

Waste study at Powai Lake

Children holding awareness placards in a colony street with an Earth5R volunteer — Children with awareness placards

Child in a pink hoodie and gloves picking litter into a bag — Child picking litter into a bag

Workers in hi-vis vests sorting sacks of dry waste at a dry waste centre in Mithi River, Mumbai — Sorting workers at a dry waste centre

Lecture hall packed with college students during an Earth5R sustainability session — College lecture hall session

Earth5R volunteer holding a multilayer plastic wrapper found in vegetation beside Powai Lake, Mumbai — Multilayer plastic found in lakeside vegetation

Children and residents gathering around an Earth5R volunteer during a door-to-door survey — Residents gather around a volunteer

Earth5R volunteer speaking to people seated in a canteen hall — Session in a canteen hall

Volunteer clearing waste from thick overgrowth by the water — Clearing overgrowth

Bales of compressed plastic bottles ready for recycling — Baled plastic bottles for recycling

Boys looking closely at an object during a hands-on environment science activity in Powai, Mumbai — Boys examining a science activity

Volunteers in white T-shirts holding a long banner on a road, hills behind — Volunteers with a banner on the road

Earth5R team setting up reusable exhibition panels for a zero waste corporate event in Mumbai — Setting up exhibition panels for a zero waste event

Earth5R volunteer talking with a woman in a colourful lane during an awareness visit — Talking with a resident in a colourful lane

Volunteer in a white T-shirt pulling waste out of water hyacinth at the water's edge — Pulling waste from water hyacinth

Shredded plastic flakes in a hopper at a recycling unit — Plastic shredded into flakes

School children in uniform holding up their environmental drawings, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — School children in uniform holding up their environmental drawings

Volunteer picking plastic waste from thick grass near a lake in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Picking waste in the grass

Earth5R team members in a meeting in a small office room — Meeting in a small office

Earth5R volunteer inspecting materials at a scrap dealer's yard — Inspecting a scrap dealer’s yard

Litter caught in grass on a muddy lake shore — Litter on a muddy lake shore

Sonam Sengar, Earth5R volunteer team leader, addressing residents and children in a community settlement — Sonam Sengar, volunteer team leader, addressing residents and children gathered in a community settlement

Saurabh Gupta, sharad vegda with building staff beside an installed organic waste composting machine, Earth5R CSR programme — Composting machine installed with building staff

Earth5R volunteers surveying a plot strewn with garbage beside high-rise buildings — Surveying a garbage-strewn plot

Young child tending a newly planted sapling in a school garden — Child watering a sapling

Children gathered around a blue recycling drum in a lane with an Earth5R volunteer — Children around a recycling drum

Jahaan Gupta, founder of the I Am Earth project, with a bag of waste collected at Powai Lake, Mumbai — Jahaan Gupta at the Powai Lake cleanup

Earth5R trainer explaining rooftop plantation to women and children in an informal settlement in Mumbai — Explaining rooftop plantation to residents

Saurabh Gupta of Earth5R speaking on waste segregation at a housing society annual day celebration — Saurabh Gupta speaks at a society annual day

Volunteers sorting waste pulled out during a lakeside cleanup — Sorting waste on site

Earth5R volunteers at a market stall during a cloth bag awareness drive — Cloth bag drive at a market

Earth5R volunteers digging pits to plant saplings during a plantation drive — Digging pits for a plantation drive

Thick layer of plastic waste choking a river bank in the city — Waste-choked river bank

Earth5R volunteers standing among sorted waste at a dry waste yard — Volunteers at a sorting yard

Earth5R team logging recovered plastic data on a phone with a waste collector at the Mithi River in Mumbai — Logging recovered plastic data

Two volunteers holding a full garbage bag during a forest cleanup drive, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Two volunteers holding a full garbage bag

Girl planting a sapling among green leaves during a plantation drive — Girl planting a sapling

Earth5R volunteers beside new waste bins at a lakeside park — Bins at a lakeside park

Mixed garbage dumped along a compound wall, a black spot for Earth5R cleanups — Garbage dumped by a wall

Earth5R facilitator showing materials to children and mothers seated on the floor — Facilitator showing materials to children and mothers seated on the floor

Volunteer recording a survey on a wet street lined with shops and homes — Street survey in the rain

Volunteers holding open a sack while collecting litter under trees in Mumbai — Holding open a waste sack

Earth5R volunteers in a planning meeting in a living room in Mumbai — Planning meeting at home

Residents and Earth5R volunteers after a waste management training — Residents and volunteers after training

Earth5R volunteers Sonam Sengar and Shriyam Jalan giving a television interview during a river cleanup — Volunteer television interview at a river cleanup

Earth5R volunteer teaching computer and accounting skills to young people on a laptop — Computer and accounting skills for youth

Housing society residents standing with blue and green waste bins after a zero waste launch in Powai, Mumbai — Society residents with bins

Garbage-strewn lane in an informal settlement, a target for community cleanup — Garbage-strewn lane

School children raising saplings grown in upcycled plastic planters with Earth5R — Children with saplings in upcycled plastic planters

Earth5R volunteers recording responses from people seated in a park in Delhi — Survey with people in a park

Earth5R volunteers walking a leafy trail during a cleanup and nature walk in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai — Volunteers on a green trail

Earth5R team designing a local sustainability plan on chart paper with residents in their home in Mumbai — Designing a local sustainability plan with residents

Earth5R volunteer in a hi-vis vest with a clipboard surveying women and children in a lane — Survey with a clipboard in a lane

Earth5R volunteer holding plastic waste recovered during a lake cleanup — Volunteer with recovered lake waste

Earth5R volunteers at a neighbourhood shop during community outreach in Mumbai — Volunteers at a neighbourhood shop

Collected plastic bottles in sacks beside volunteers in safety vests in Mithi River, Mumbai — Bottles collected in a drive

Volunteers removing waste and weeds from a lake edge — Clearing the lake edge

Earth5R volunteer sitting with children as they fill in activity sheets outdoors — Volunteer sitting with children as they fill in activity sheets outdoors

Earth5R volunteer at a local recycler scrap shop, part of connecting buildings with recyclers in Mumbai — Volunteer at a local recycler

Earth5R volunteers beside a green and grey waste bin station on a roadside in Mulund West, Mumbai — Volunteers at a roadside bin station

School children planting saplings in their school ground with Earth5R volunteers — Children plant saplings in the school ground

Brand audit layout on paving

Large group of school students seated along a road during a cleanup drive, Earth5R CSR programme — Large group of school students seated along a road

Residents seated on a rooftop for a community meeting with an Earth5R volunteer — Rooftop meeting with residents

Residents gathered around a garden compost pit set up with Earth5R in Powai, Mumbai — Residents at a compost pit

Crowd of residents and volunteers clearing waste along a street — Cleanup crowd on a street

Children and volunteers gathered on a street during an Earth5R community drive — Children gathered on a street

Corporate volunteers in white T-shirts gathered on site during a cleanup drive — Corporate volunteers on site

Earth5R volunteers standing beside bags of waste collected in a cleanup — Bags of collected waste

Earth5R team with international volunteers during community outreach in Mumbai — Earth5R team with international volunteers

Earth5R volunteer carrying an upcycled planter up to a tin rooftop in an informal settlement in Mumbai — Taking a planter up to the rooftop

Families and children with bags of waste after an Earth5R cleanup at Powai Lake, Mumbai — Families after a lake cleanup

Group of international student volunteers seated outdoors, Earth5R CSR programme — Group of international student volunteers seated outdoors

Volunteers lined up on a gravel riverside during an Earth5R river programme — Volunteers on a riverside

Volunteers sorting collected waste on a lakeside wall — Sorting waste on the lake wall

Citizens sharing climate solution ideas at an Earth5R street hackathon in Mumbai — Citizens share ideas at a street hackathon

Saurabh Gupta and the Earth5R team at the Most Impactful CSR and NGO Leaders awards in Mumbai — Earth5R team at the CSR and NGO Leaders awards

Earth5R volunteers setting up banners on the beach before a cleanup — Setting up banners for a beach cleanup

Earth5R volunteer planting a sapling beside a support stake in a field — Planting a staked sapling

Volunteers in white T-shirts collecting waste on open land during a corporate cleanup — Corporate cleanup in progress

Earth5R volunteers Sonam Sengar and Madhavi Ninganu pulling waste out of the Mula Mutha river in Pune — Volunteers clean the Mula Mutha river

Crowd of students listening at an outdoor awareness talk — Students at an outdoor awareness talk

Girls holding up handmade upcycled crafts outside their homes in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Girls with handmade crafts

Earth5R volunteer pulling waste out of green lakeside vegetation in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Pulling waste from lakeside vegetation

Earth5R volunteers talking with a woman in a narrow lane during a door-to-door awareness visit in Powai, Mumbai — Awareness visit in a narrow lane

Flattened cardboard stacked inside a recycling shed in Mumbai — Cardboard stacked for recycling

Earth5R volunteers listening to a briefing before a forest cleanup drive in Mumbai — Volunteers listening to a briefing before a forest cleanup drive

Volunteer planting a sapling along a stone wall — Planting a sapling by a stone wall

Two Earth5R volunteers holding up a 5R activity sheet with residents in the background, Earth5R CSR programme — Two Earth5R volunteers holding up a 5R activity sheet with residents in the background

Large crowd of volunteers spread along a grey monsoon beach during a mass cleanup — Mass beach cleanup in the monsoon

Young children seated around a colourful preschool room during an Earth5R visit — Children in a preschool room

Earth5R volunteers at an informal recycling unit where plastic waste is cleaned, sorted and recycled in Mumbai — Visit to an informal plastic recycling unit

Volunteers and children collecting waste beside a hedge — Volunteers and children collect waste by a hedge

Earth5R team members planning a programme around a laptop in a small office — Planning around a laptop

Earth5R trainers with waste collectors and filled sacks along the Mithi riverside path in Mumbai — Trainers and waste collectors on the riverside

Earth5R volunteers crouching by an open drain in a narrow lane to check for blockages and waste — Checking an open drain in a lane

Earth5R volunteer presenting a projector lesson to a school class — Projector lesson in class

Overhead view of women seated on the floor making paper bags from newspaper — Paper bag making from above

Volunteer clearing waste from a lake edge beside a railing in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Clearing a lake edge

Earth5R volunteers reviewing household survey forms beside a water drum in a settlement — Volunteers reviewing household survey forms beside a water drum in a settlement

Volunteer planting a sapling in red soil during a tree planting drive — Planting a sapling on a hillside

Earth5R founder saurabh gupta volunteers ketul patel, ishit patel, Ayesha Syed team at a Yamuna ghat with boats after a river cleanup in Delhi — Earth5R team at a Yamuna ghat

Earth5R volunteers logging collection data at a waste centre gate in Mumbai — Logging data at the centre

Children's hands planting a seedling in garden soil — Hands planting a seedling

Earth5R volunteers bagging litter on a lake shore — Bagging litter on the lake shore

Earth5R volunteer talking with children during a community outreach visit in a residential lane — Volunteer talking with children

Hands rolling strips of waste paper into beads for upcycled crafts — Rolling paper strips into beads

Volunteers working along a riverside during an Earth5R cleanup — Riverside cleanup crew

Volunteers in white T-shirts gathered on a seafront for an Earth5R awareness rally — Rally on the seafront

Earth5R volunteers on the grass recording survey notes in a park in Delhi — Recording field notes in a park

Earth5R volunteers with collected waste at a park entrance arch in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Volunteers at a park entrance

Children holding up the drawings they made in an Earth5R environment session in Powai, Mumbai — Children show their environment drawings

Volunteers sorting waste collected in a beach side cleanup in Mumbai — Sorting a cleanup haul

Volunteers clearing waste together under trees beside a lake — Group cleanup under trees

Earth5R volunteer explaining a sheet to a family during a home visit — Home visit with a family

Earth5R team leader Sonam Sengar training residents and children in a residential community — Surveying residents in a community

Students crouching to clear waste from a grassy lake bank — Students clearing the bank

Students seated at desks during an Earth5R classroom environment activity — Classroom environment activity

Earth5R volunteers surveying people on a city street — Street survey with residents

Child holding up a plastic bottle collected during a park cleanup — Child shows a bottle from the cleanup

Earth5R volunteers speaking with citizens about circular economy near the Red Fort in Delhi — Talking circular economy with citizens near the Red Fort

Two women shaping paper mache bowls during an upcycling workshop, Earth5R CSR programme — Two women shaping paper mache bowls

Residents sweeping up a cleared garbage black spot — Sweeping up a black spot

Hexaware employee volunteers bagging waste after Earth5R training at the Mula Mutha river cleanup in Pune. Earth5R Volunteer team leader Sonam Sengar — Hexaware volunteers bag waste after training

Earth5R speaker presenting on a school stage beside colour-coded waste bins — Segregation talk on a school stage

Earth5R volunteers resting after a cleanup in Mumbai — Volunteers rest after a cleanup

Earth5R volunteer showing livelihood and circular economy videos to slum residents on a laptop — Showing livelihood videos to residents

Children gathered at a doorway during an Earth5R community visit — Children at their doorway

Garbage piled outside a waste collection shed in a hillside neighbourhood — Garbage at a collection shed

Residents watching how the Earth5R drum composter is filled and rotated in Mumbai — Residents learn to use the drum composter

Top view into a blue drum holding segregated dry waste — Segregated dry waste in a drum

Earth5R volunteers cleaning a littered yard under trees beside a shed — Cleaning a yard under trees

Earth5R volunteers with home compost and potted plants grown using it — Home compost used for potted plants

Woman kneeling on the floor sorting old newspapers for paper bag making — Sorting newspapers for paper bags

Earth5R volunteers bagging waste on rocks near a lake — Bagging waste near the water

Earth5R volunteer talking with women in colourful saris in a lane — Visit with women in colourful saris

Woman and volunteers cutting and folding paper to make bags at home, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Woman and volunteers cutting and folding paper to make bags at home

Volunteers clearing waste from an open field into sacks — Clearing an open field with sacks

Women making paper bags from waste newspaper at home as part of Earth5R livelihood work — Women make paper bags at home

Women residents seated at a doorway holding survey sheets — Women residents with survey sheets

Student volunteers celebrating beside bags of waste collected at the Powai Lake cleanup, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Powai Lake cleanup team with collected waste

Women and girls examining items shown by an Earth5R volunteer during an outdoor demonstration in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Demonstration for women and girls

Earth5R upcycled drum composters, made from industrial containers, installed at a housing society in Mumbai — Upcycled drum composters installed at a society

Earth5R volunteer crouching to pick waste beside a discarded bicycle in a dumping spot in Mumbai — Picking waste by a discarded bike

Selfie with an upcycled bottle planter and the words Go green #ImEarth, Earth5R CSR programme — Selfie with an upcycled bottle planter and the words Go green #ImEarth

Line of corporate volunteers in white T-shirts walking along a path to start a cleanup — Corporate volunteers set out on a cleanup

Volunteers digging out buried waste from a muddy bank — Digging out buried waste

Earth5R volunteers sitting with families to train them on circular economy in a Delhi public space — Circular economy training with families in Delhi

Earth5R speaker presenting Earth5R work on screen in an auditorium in Bengaluru — Speaker presenting Earth5R work on screen in an auditorium

Jahaan Gupta, Earth5R co-founder, collecting footpath litter with Earth5R volunteers in Powai, Mumbai — Jahaan Gupta collects footpath litter in Powai

Corporate volunteers collecting scattered waste in a field — Volunteers bagging field waste

Heap of collected plastic and paper waste ready for sorting at an Earth5R drive — Heap of collected waste

Girl showing plastic items she collected at a lake cleanup — Girl shows collected plastic

Volunteers around a tub of compost and a potted plant on a terrace — Checking compost on a terrace

Masked Earth5R volunteer filling in a survey form outside a home with women residents — Household survey outside a home

Earth5R volunteer picking litter from wet leaf-covered ground beside a forest stream in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai — Picking litter beside a forest stream

Volunteers in high visibility vests lined up before a waste drive in Mithi River, Mumbai — Volunteers in safety vests

Women and Earth5R volunteers showing finished paper bags made from newspaper waste — Women show their finished paper bags

Volunteers picking waste in a green field beside a lake in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Volunteers in a green field

Earth5R team and waste collectors sorting plastic into buckets by type near the Mithi River, Mumbai — Sorting recovered plastic by type

Earth5R volunteers surveying families relaxing in a park in Delhi — Park survey with families

Volunteers gathering on a beach front for an Earth5R cleanup drive — Beach cleanup gathering

Young volunteer showing a cloth bag to women and children at a doorway, Earth5R CSR programme — Young volunteer showing a cloth bag to women and children at a doorway

Close-up of volunteers geotagging trees on the Earth5R app during a plantation drive in Mumbai — Geotagging trees on the Earth5R app

Plastic and broken debris dumped on open ground — Plastic and debris on open ground

Earth5R team observing waste workers sorting dry waste for recycling at a material recovery facility in Mumbai — Dry waste sorting at a material recovery facility

Earth5R volunteers segregating collected waste for an audit on the Powai Lake promenade in Mumbai — Segregating waste for an audit at Powai Lake

Earth5R volunteers cleaning a Mumbai waterfront at sunset — Waterfront cleanup at sunset

Earth5R volunteers and workers inside a busy waste sorting shed — Sorting shed with volunteers

Overhead view of a solar-powered floating device with sensors on dark river water — Solar-powered water monitoring device

Volunteers clearing waste on a grassy riverbank slope — Clearing a grassy riverbank slope

Schoolgirl and a woman in a sari planting together beside a red wall — Schoolgirl and teacher plant together

Earth5R partner stitching shop turning recovered plastic into sacks for building waste collection in Mumbai — Recovered plastic stitched into waste collection sacks

Volunteer clearing waste from a bank covered in water hyacinth — Volunteer on a hyacinth-covered bank

Women sitting outside their homes in a narrow lane lined with green waste bins — Green bins outside homes in a lane

Earth5R facilitator leading a workshop for students seated on the floor of a hall — Workshop for students in a hall

Waste dumped in a gully among trees and vegetation in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Waste dumped in a green gully

Plastic bottles piled at a collection point ready for recycling — Bottles collected for recycling

Crowd of school students at an Earth5R pond cleanup — School cleanup crowd

Earth5R volunteers holding garbage bags during a beach cleanup — Volunteers with garbage bags on the beach

Young woman presenting her group's plan at a flip chart in a training workshop — Presenting a plan at a flip chart

Children drawing on sheets on the ground during an Earth5R environmental activity, Earth5R CSR programme — Children drawing on sheets on the ground

Earth5R volunteers clearing mixed waste and an offering pot from the Powai Lake shore, Mumbai — Clearing mixed waste from the lake shore

Close-up of a man operating the control panel of a red composting machine — Operating a composting machine

Earth5R founder saurabh gupta volunteers ketul patel, ishit patel, Ayesha Syed volunteer team in front of the Red Fort after a public training day in Delhi — Earth5R team at the Red Fort

Residents and volunteers starting a cleanup near a busy market — Community cleanup by a market

Volunteers working among potted saplings at an outdoor nursery — Nursery work in the open

Large audience of students seated in an auditorium for an Earth5R environment talk in Bengaluru outskirts, Bengaluru — Auditorium awareness talk

Bottle caps with saplings growing in them and a small idol recovered during a Powai Lake cleanup, Earth5R CSR programme — Bottle caps and a small idol from the lake

Rows of planted garden beds on a rooftop farm supported by Earth5R — Rooftop garden beds

Earth5R volunteers speaking with shoppers about cloth bags at a market — Bag awareness at a shop

Earth5R volunteer using a tool to pull waste from a lake edge — Lake cleanup with tools

Earth5R volunteer and a woman sorting household waste materials on the floor during segregation training — Segregation training at home

Earth5R team with SIDBI officers after a sustainable banking training during Swachhta Pakhwada in Mumbai — Earth5R team with SIDBI officers

Volunteers piling waste hauled from the lake beside a stone wall — Waste hauled to the wall

Many volunteers spread across a grassy field planting saplings, a high-rise behind — Mass sapling planting on a grassy field

Women and international volunteers holding a box of handmade upcycled dolls, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Women and international volunteers holding a box of handmade upcycled dolls

Volunteers with piles of waste collected from the lake edge — Waste piled on the wall

Children and women seated on the floor for an Earth5R environment session in a community hall — Session in a crowded hall

Earth5R team collecting banners and event waste for recycling right after the Xynteo event in Mumbai — Collecting event waste for recycling

Litter scattered along a city lane before an Earth5R community cleanup — Littered city lane

Hexaware employee volunteers collecting waste into bags at Juhu beach with Earth5R in Mumbai — Hexaware volunteers collect waste at Juhu

Earth5R team presenting to students on a school auditorium stage — Presentation on a school stage

Earth5R volunteers carrying bags of collected waste across a riverside ground — Carrying collected waste bags

Women sorting textiles and craft materials on the floor for upcycled products — Women sorting textiles for upcycling

Residents seated under a red canopy for an Earth5R community event in Powai, Mumbai — Event under a red canopy

Crowd of volunteers gathered on a riverbank for a briefing before the cleanup — Briefing before a river cleanup

Boy putting plastic waste into a blue drum labelled Plastic Waste for Recycling in a parking lane — Boy drops plastic into a recycling drum

Stacks of blue plastic drums collected at a recycling yard visited by Earth5R — Blue drums at a recycling yard

Two young volunteers in gloves pulling waste from the edge of a hyacinth-covered pond — Young volunteers clear a hyacinth pond edge

Earth5R volunteers with a display of collected and sorted waste by a lake in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Waste audit display by the lake

Volunteer with children holding sheets near a riverside during an awareness walk in Powai, Mumbai — Children by a riverside

Volunteer picking litter from a hedge beside a footpath in Mumbai — Litter pick by a hedge

Large heap of bagged mixed waste in a shed, with people sorting it in Mumbai — Heap of bagged waste in a sorting shed

Schoolchildren seated outdoors during an Earth5R environment session — Schoolchildren at an outdoor session

Volunteer reaching into tall weeds to pull out waste — Reaching into the weeds

Children and volunteers rolling newspaper for an upcycling craft activity, Earth5R CSR programme — Children and volunteers rolling newspaper for an upcycling craft activity

Earth5R volunteer teaching women the paper bag folding technique — Teaching the paper bag folding technique

Earth5R volunteers bagging waste on the Powai Lake shore during a weekend cleanup, Mumbai — Weekend lake shore cleanup

Earth5R with fellow awardees on stage at the 8th Indian Health and Wellness Summit Awards — Earth5R receives the Indian Health and Wellness Award

Children playing an outdoor game during an Earth5R community activity in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Children playing a game

Earth5R volunteers Sonam Sengar, Shriyam Jalan collecting waste in garbage bags during a housing society cleanup — Society cleanup with volunteers Sonam Sengar, Shriyam Jalan

Earth5R volunteers recording citizen responses on a tablet during public training in Delhi — Recording citizen responses on a tablet

Delegates visiting the Earth5R project stand at the Paris Peace Forum — Visitors at the Earth5R stand

Heap of mixed garbage and plastic dumped in a corner — Heap of mixed garbage and plastic

Jahaan Gupta, Earth5R co-founder, sorting recovered waste for a waste audit with Earth5R volunteers by the lake — Jahaan Gupta sorts waste for a waste audit

Earth5R team explaining the rooftop plantation and buyback programme to women in an informal settlement in Mumbai — Explaining the rooftop plantation buyback to women

Plastic bottles and wrappers from the Powai Lake cleanup sorted and ready for recycling, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Powai Lake waste ready for recycling

Planted beds in a community garden set up with Earth5R compost — Community garden beds

Earth5R speakers presenting the Earth5R 5R framework (Respect, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Restore) to students — Speakers presenting the Earth5R 5R framework (Respect, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Restore) to students

Earth5R volunteers holding up bags of collected waste beside a lake — Volunteers hold up collected waste by the lake

Earth5R delegation with other participants at a reception in Paris — Delegation at an international forum

Close-up of hands planting a sapling in dark soil — Hands planting a sapling in dark soil

Line of volunteers spread out cleaning a wide grey beach in the monsoon — Line of volunteers cleaning a wide beach

Earth5R trainers helping waste collectors sort plastic into sacks at the Mithi River in Mumbai — Sorting plastic into sacks

Corporate volunteers in navy T-shirts clearing waste on open land — Corporate cleanup on open land

Volunteer clearing plastic waste from a heavily littered shoreline — Clearing a plastic-choked shore

Earth5R trainer speaking to a small seated group in a training room — Trainer briefing a small group

Earth5R volunteers at a collection desk set up on a seafront promenade in Mumbai — Collection desk on the promenade

Family picking litter in a green park during an Earth5R cleanup — Family litter pick in a park

Earth5R team explaining how rooftop plants cool hot tin roofs to settlement residents in Mumbai — How rooftop plants cool tin roofs

Two people standing behind a row of blue and green compost drums in a housing society — Compost drums lined up in a society

Close-up of hands pulling plastic waste out of bushes — Pulling plastic out of bushes

Earth5R volunteers beside large sacks of dry waste at a dry waste centre in Mithi River, Mumbai — Sacks of dry waste at the centre

Earth5R volunteers and children seated in a circle during an activity in a hall — Volunteers and children seated in a circle

Earth5R volunteers picking waste on an open patch near a flyover — Cleaning an open patch near a flyover

Earth5R team and Saurabh Gupta at the Decathlon fitness and carbon reduction challenge partnership launch in Mumbai — Earth5R and Decathlon fitness and carbon reduction challenge

Earth5R volunteers talking with a group of residents in a lane roofed with blue tarpaulin — Talking with residents in a tarp-roofed lane

Volunteer holding plastic wrappers recovered during an Earth5R lake cleanup — Plastic wrappers recovered from the lake

Residents seated in a society lobby for an Earth5R zero waste briefing in Powai, Mumbai — Residents attend a briefing

Earth5R speaker addressing an audience from a stage at an evening event — Event on a stage

Saurabh Gupta holding up a roti thrown in the garbage to show residents the food waste problem, Earth5R CSR programme — Roti in the bin: a food waste lesson

Earth5R facilitator speaking to women seated in a community hall during a waste management workshop in Mumbai — Facilitator speaking to women seated in a community hall

Excavator clearing waste at a large dump site — Excavator at a waste site

Masked Earth5R volunteer seated with women filling in survey forms in a lane — Survey forms with women in a lane

Volunteer holding a sapling at an Earth5R CSR plantation drive — Sapling ready for a CSR plantation drive

Volunteer collecting waste on a roadside verge beside a highway — Roadside verge cleanup

Women and volunteers seated together for a livelihood workshop in a home in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Women’s workshop in a home

Residents and children gathered around visiting student volunteers in a settlement, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Residents and children gathered around visiting student volunteers in a settlement

Crane and truck removing collected waste during an Earth5R cleanup operation — Waste removal with a crane

Volunteers spread across a green bank picking waste — Volunteers across the bank

Boy holding up a paper stencil artwork at an outdoor environment event — Boy shows his paper stencil art

Earth5R volunteer explaining blue compost drums to residents — Explaining compost drums

Five volunteers holding garbage bags and wearing I'm Earth badges, Earth5R CSR programme — Five volunteers holding garbage bags and wearing I’m Earth badges

Earth5R volunteers Sonam Sengar, Shriyam Jalan, Manasi teaching children and parents to pot saplings with compost — Sapling potting workshop with compost

Earth5R volunteer explaining waste segregation to a resident at her doorstep in Mumbai — Door to door waste segregation awareness

Earth5R volunteers bagging litter on a forest path under tall trees in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai — Bagging litter on a forest path

Earth5R volunteer showing an awareness poster to residents at their doorway — Awareness poster at a doorway

Earth5R volunteers sorting household waste on the floor with a resident to show segregation — Segregation demonstration with a resident

Earth5R volunteer sorting plastic cups and cans recovered at a lake cleanup — Sorting recovered plastic cups and cans

Earth5R volunteer kneeling with schoolboys in the school garden during a planting session — Volunteer with schoolboys in the garden

Woman presenting beside a projected slide during a sustainability training session — Presenting at a training session

Earth5R volunteers putting collected waste into separate wet and dry waste bins in Mumbai — Volunteers putting collected waste into separate wet and dry waste bins

Volunteer handing a cloth bag to a woman at her doorway to replace plastic bags — Handing a cloth bag to a resident

Vegetable and produce stall at a zero waste eco market — Vegetable stall at an eco market

Floating trash collection device on a still river — Floating trash collection device on a river

Earth5R volunteer teaching at the board in a school classroom — Lesson at the board

Earth5R volunteers beside green recycling bins set up outside a building in Mulund West, Mumbai — Recycling bins outside a building

Earth5R lead briefing a crowd of young volunteers with umbrellas before a monsoon lake cleanup — Briefing volunteers in the rain

Earth5R founder saurabh gupta volunteers ketul patel, ishit patel, Ayesha Syed training a citizen beside the Red Fort wall, Delhi — Training a citizen by the Red Fort wall

Earth5R volunteer handing a cloth bag to a toy shopkeeper — Cloth bags for shopkeepers

Volunteer bagging waste on a steep lake bank — Bagging waste on a lake bank

Residents and children seated outdoors for an Earth5R environment session — Outdoor session with a seated crowd

Hundreds of glass bangles recovered and laid out after a lake cleanup — Bangles found in a cleanup

Earth5R volunteers talking with people seated on a roadside bench — Talking with people on a bench

Participants seated on mats under trees for an outdoor Earth5R workshop — Workshop under the trees

Earth5R volunteers holding filled garbage bags during a cleanup — Volunteers with garbage bags

Women residents gathered beside segregation bins at a zero waste launch — Residents at a zero waste launch

Earth5R volunteer taking questions from students in a school hall — Q and A in the school hall

Two Earth5R volunteers picking waste from tall green grass — Picking waste in tall grass

Children and women watching Earth5R volunteers plant saplings in tubs in their lane in Mumbai — Children watch a planting session

Large group of students gathered at a pond for an Earth5R cleanup — Students at a pond cleanup

Rows of rooftop solar panels with residential towers behind — Rows of rooftop solar panels

Earth5R volunteers bagging waste during a lake cleanup — Bagging waste at a lake cleanup

Earth5R volunteers on a field survey beside a historic red sandstone wall in Delhi — Survey near a heritage wall

Volunteers standing around collected litter laid out for an audit in Mumbai — Audit of collected litter

Volunteers working along the lake edge among water hyacinth — Volunteers on the lake edge

Earth5R volunteers meeting residents in a busy decorated lane — Meeting residents in a busy lane

Earth5R team speaking with staff during an office sustainability visit in Mumbai — Office sustainability visit

Earth5R volunteers with clipboards briefing each other before a neighbourhood survey — Briefing before a field survey

Earth5R volunteers and residents holding an awareness poster at an outdoor event — Volunteers with an awareness poster

Woman holding a handmade placard reading I will not litter because I am Earth, Earth5R CSR programme — Woman holding a handmade placard reading I will not litter because I am Earth

Earth5R volunteers handing out cloth bags outside a shop in Mumbai — Cloth bag distribution

Garbage bags and debris dumped along a roadside, the kind of black spot Earth5R cleanups target — Garbage dumped along a busy road

Volunteers sorting collected waste along a long garden wall for a waste audit — Sorting cleanup waste along a garden wall

Resident sorting small plastic and packaging waste from a large heap in Mumbai — Sorting small plastic waste

Earth5R volunteer talking with the team beside waste bins under trees in a housing society — Discussing bins under the trees

Earth5R volunteer in an I'm Earth T-shirt talking to a resident at her doorway during a door-to-door survey — Door-to-door household survey

Earth5R volunteer pulling waste from the reeds on the Yamuna riverbank in Delhi — Yamuna riverbank cleanup

Hand adding home-made compost to potted plants in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Adding compost to potted plants

Earth5R volunteer and a woman at her doorway holding an awareness leaflet — Leaflet visit at a doorway

Waste collector in a safety vest recovering plastic waste along the Mithi River, Mumbai, Earth5R CSR programme — Waste collector recovering plastic along the river

Waste worker sorting materials at a dry waste centre — Waste worker at the sorting centre

Girl seated on the floor working on a paper craft activity in an Earth5R children's session in Powai, Mumbai — Girl working on a craft activity

Crushed drink can littered among white wildflowers in the grass — Drink can among wildflowers

Corporate volunteers raking and bagging waste across a field — Team clearing a field

Young children at small tables during an Earth5R preschool activity — Preschool class activity

Volunteers clearing debris from a roadside drain under trees — Cleaning a roadside drain

Waste audit of plastic cutlery, cigarette butts and wrappers recovered at Powai Lake, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Waste audit of plastic cutlery and cigarette butts

Earth5R team delivering saplings for rooftop planting to a family in a Mumbai informal settlement — Saplings delivered for rooftop planting

Plastic and debris scattered in an overgrown patch before an Earth5R cleanup — Waste in an overgrown patch

Children crowding a lane beside a green community bin during an awareness visit — Children gather by a community bin

Earth5R volunteers and sorting staff together inside a dry waste centre in Mumbai — Sorting centre team

Earth5R volunteers collecting litter on the Powai Lake shore thick with water hyacinth, Mumbai — Collecting litter on a hyacinth-covered shore

Women drawing designs together on a large sheet of paper in a craft workshop in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Women drawing designs on a large sheet

School class lined up with teachers and Earth5R volunteers — Class photo with volunteers

Volunteer pulling waste from dense greenery beside a lake wall — Working in dense greenery

Earth5R paying a woman by cheque for her paper bags, part of its financial inclusion programme — Cheque payment for paper bags, financial inclusion

Earth5R founder saurabh gupta volunteers ketul patel, ishit patel, Ayesha Syed showing women how to learn about circular economy on a phone in Delhi — Circular economy training on a phone

Segregated plastic bottles and wrappers from an Earth5R lake cleanup ready for recycling in Mumbai — Lake cleanup waste ready for recycling

Saurabh Gupta of Earth5R on stage at the Google Playtime event in Singapore, where Earth5R was recognised for its app — Earth5R app recognised by Google in Singapore

Earth5R volunteers running a street-side environment session with children seated in a lane — Street-side environment session with children

Students in white collecting waste along a park path — Students collect waste along a path

Earth5R volunteer beside a red organic waste composting machine and sacks of wet waste — Organic waste composting machine

Earth5R volunteer sorting plastic bags in a scrap store in Mumbai — Sorting plastic in a scrap store

Volunteers removing waste from a muddy pond edge in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Cleaning a muddy pond

Pre-school classroom with an alphabet mural during an Earth5R session with children and teachers — Pre-school classroom session

Corporate volunteers sorting collected waste on a paved road — Sorting waste with a corporate team

Earth5R volunteers cleaning a lakeside promenade next to water hyacinth — Lakeside promenade cleanup

Earth5R volunteer talking with women beside blue water drums in a lane — Visit with women by water drums

Waste collected in a park cleanup laid out on a path for a waste audit — Park cleanup waste laid out for audit

Earth5R volunteer Sonam Sengar removing discarded cloth from the Mula Mutha river in Pune — Removing cloth waste from the river

Earth5R street hackathon by the lake where citizens discuss climate ideas in Mumbai — Lakeside street hackathon

Volunteers seated on tarps on the grass sorting collected waste for a waste audit — Waste audit on tarps under trees

Earth5R volunteer giving a media interview at a riverbank cleanup — Volunteer gives a media interview at a cleanup

Women gathered with Earth5R volunteers in a lane for a livelihood training session — Women gather in a lane for training

Saurabh Gupta with housekeeping staff after Earth5R waste segregation training at a Powai residential complex in Mumbai — Housekeeping staff after segregation training

Earth5R volunteer collecting waste in a blue bag among tall grass in Delhi — Collecting waste in tall grass

Earth5R volunteers training slum women and children to make paper bags from waste newspaper — Newspaper bag making training for women

Earth5R speaker addressing residents under a red canopy at a community event in Powai, Mumbai — Speaking at a community event

Earth5R volunteers picking up garbage from a littered roadside verge — Clearing a littered roadside verge

Earth5R team collecting plastic-filled ecobricks from municipal school children for school gardens in Mumbai — Collecting ecobricks from municipal school children

Women learning to plant saplings in upcycled plastic containers filled with compost and soil, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Planting saplings in upcycled containers

Students clearing waste from a green patch with Earth5R volunteers — Students clearing a garden patch

Earth5R volunteer explaining the activity to a group on a nature trail cleanup in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai — Briefing on a nature trail

Boy planting a seedling in red soil at an Earth5R plantation drive — Boy planting a seedling

Earth5R volunteers assessing a large garbage black spot before a cleanup — Black spot assessment

Woman with stacks of finished newspaper paper bags ready for sale to local shops, Earth5R CSR programme — Finished paper bags ready for local shops

Earth5R volunteers training visitors with a tablet presentation near the Red Fort, Delhi — Tablet-based training for visitors near the Red Fort

Plastic bottle on Juhu beach before an Earth5R corporate beach cleanup in Mumbai — Plastic bottle on Juhu beach

Farmers seated in a hall for an organic farming conclave supported by Earth5R — Farmers at an organic farming conclave

Sacks of recovered PET bottles and plastic collected with Earth5R support at the Mithi River in Mumbai — Sacks of recovered PET bottles

Volunteer clearing waste from weeds on a lake bank on a cloudy day — Clearing weeds on a lake bank

Volunteers holding placards on an awareness march through the city — Awareness march with placards

Earth5R volunteers tending potted plants at a community nursery — Tending a plant nursery

Gloved hands putting collected waste into a bag beside a wall — Gloved hands bagging waste

Volunteers and residents seated on the floor during an Earth5R hands-on workshop — Workshop on the floor

Volunteers showing an awareness placard to passers-by beside a road — Showing a placard to the public

Earth5R volunteers in gloves holding a bag of collected plastic in Mumbai — Volunteers bag plastic at a cleanup

Earth5R volunteers briefing municipal waste workers in safety vests in Mithi River, Mumbai — Briefing waste workers

Volunteer digging a planting pit in a forest patch — Digging a planting pit

Lakeside promenade littered with waste after a festival — Festival waste on a lakeside promenade

Earth5R volunteers standing around a clay compost pot outdoors in Mumbai — Volunteers with a compost pot

Earth5R volunteer showing schoolboys around the school garden — Touring the school garden

Earth5R volunteers bagging waste on a lake shore during a cleanup — Bagging waste on the lake shore

Earth5R volunteer lifting a drum among blue composting barrels and buckets — Handling composting drums

Student volunteer holding up a block of waste recovered in a cleanup — Showing recovered waste

Earth5R team members talking over a cleanup plan at a garbage black spot — Planning a black spot cleanup

Housing society residents attending an Earth5R waste segregation training in Powai, Mumbai — Residents attend waste segregation training

Earth5R volunteers in conversation with visitors seated on the grass in Delhi — Talking with visitors on the grass

Waste worker filling sacks with sorted garbage at a collection point — Worker filling waste sacks

Earth5R facilitator leading an interactive session with women in a community hall in Mumbai — Facilitator leading an interactive session with women in a community hall

Earth5R volunteer placing a sapling planter on a hot tin roof to cool the home in Mumbai — Placing a planter on a hot tin roof

Earth5R volunteers picking waste on a muddy lake shore with the city skyline behind in Mumbai — Lake shore cleanup with the city behind

Students seated on the floor listening during an Earth5R workshop — Students in a seated workshop

Earth5R volunteers explaining a programme plan on a flip chart in a training session — Explaining a plan on a flip chart

Mangroves beside a polluted creek monitored by Earth5R — Mangroves by a polluted creek

Rooftops of a dense hillside settlement covered for an Earth5R community survey — Hillside settlement survey area

Women and volunteers sorting fabric scraps on the floor for an upcycling activity, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Women and volunteers sorting fabric scraps on the floor for an upcycling activity

Volunteers clearing waste along an overgrown stream bank — Cleanup along a stream

Hands holding a paper bag folded and glued from old newspaper — Newspaper bag made by hand

Earth5R volunteers in 5R T-shirts training citizens in the Red Fort grounds, Delhi — 5R training in the Red Fort grounds

Group of volunteers clearing waste along a lakeside ledge — Team clearing a ledge

Saurabh Gupta presenting an Earth5R project at the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub workshop in Bengaluru — Saurabh Gupta presents Earth5R at the UNFCCC workshop

Children showing handmade paper cut-outs at an Earth5R community workshop in Powai, Mumbai — Showing handmade cut-outs

Volunteer digging buried plastic out of a littered beach — Digging plastic out of the sand

Blue and green segregation bins installed in a garden compound — Segregation bins in a garden

Earth5R volunteer leading a waste management training for residents and children — Waste management training for residents

Earth5R volunteers cleaning waste from a muddy lakeshore — Cleaning a muddy lakeshore

Composting materials laid out for a demonstration in a housing society compound in Powai, Mumbai — Composting demo in a society

Boy writing on the blackboard during an Earth5R classroom session as the teacher watches — Boy writes on the blackboard

Large group of Earth5R volunteers with bags of waste after a lake cleanup — Lake cleanup volunteers with their haul

Lufthansa employee volunteers and the Earth5R team with bags of waste collected at Juhu beach in Mumbai — Lufthansa and Earth5R team after the Juhu beach cleanup

Volunteers walking with placards in an environmental awareness rally — Awareness rally with placards

Student volunteers segregating collected waste on sheets at the Powai Lake cleanup, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Waste segregation on sheets at Powai Lake

Earth5R team meeting a housing society board to train members on zero waste management in Mumbai — Training a housing society board on zero waste

Students in the front rows listening during an Earth5R school session — Students listening closely

Volunteers picking waste from open ground beneath a flyover — Cleanup under a flyover

Woman holding up a handmade cloth bag made in an Earth5R livelihood training — Handmade cloth bag made in training

Residents planting saplings in their society garden during an Earth5R plantation workshop. Earth5R team members Sonam Sengar, Shriyam Jalan, Manasi — Residents plant saplings in their society garden

Students wading into water hyacinth to pull out waste — Students in the hyacinth

Heaps of sorted waste bags at a collection centre in Mumbai — Heaps of sorted waste bags

Students at benches watching a projected environment presentation in a classroom — Classroom presentation for students

Volunteers assembling orange trash boom floats on a riverbank below a flyover — Assembling a trash boom on the riverbank

International and Indian volunteers seated with bundles of newspaper for paper bag making — Volunteers with bundles of newspaper for bags

Volunteers walking along a path through lush trees at a plantation drive site — Walking through a green plantation site

Earth5R volunteers in gloves on a grassy riverside during a cleanup — Gloved volunteers by the river

Earth5R volunteer surveying homes in a narrow slum lane in Mumbai — Survey in a narrow lane

Earth5R volunteers meeting a group of women residents in a lane — Meeting residents in a lane

Earth5R team on a site visit to a material recovery facility handling mixed dry waste in Mumbai — Earth5R site visit to a material recovery facility

Volunteer recording lake cleanup waste data on the Earth5R app in Mumbai — Recording cleanup data on the Earth5R app

Earth5R volunteer in a 5R T-shirt training citizens on recycling in a public space in Delhi — 5R training for citizens in Delhi

Earth5R trainers working with waste collectors at a plastic sorting point on the Mithi riverbank in Mumbai — Riverbank plastic sorting point

Solar-powered monitoring boat prepared for Earth5R river data collection — Solar boat for river monitoring

Saurabh Gupta of Earth5R receiving the Most Impactful Green Management Leader award at a CSR leadership event in Mumbai — Saurabh Gupta receives Most Impactful Green Management Leader award

Earth5R volunteers visiting a dry waste sorting centre — Visit to a dry waste centre

Volunteer carrying a large sack of collected waste along a railing in Mumbai — Carrying a sack of waste by a railing

Earth5R volunteers interviewing visitors seated on the lawns near a heritage site in Delhi — Interview on the lawns

Hexaware employees collecting waste on the Mula Mutha riverbank in Pune with Earth5R volunteer team leader Sonam Sengar — Hexaware volunteers on the Mula Mutha riverbank

Earth5R volunteers working along a muddy water's edge in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Working along the water’s edge

Women and girls with awareness charts and compost buckets in a lane — Women with charts and buckets in a lane

School auditorium packed with uniformed students at an Earth5R awareness session — School auditorium awareness session

Earth5R volunteer clearing waste from tall weeds — Clearing waste in weeds

Saurabh Gupta demonstrating the Earth5R drum composter to housing society residents in Powai, Mumbai — Drum composter demonstration for residents

Residents listening to an Earth5R volunteer under umbrellas on a rainy day in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Session under umbrellas

Saurabh Gupta of Earth5R training SIDBI officers on sustainable banking in their office in Mumbai — Saurabh Gupta trains SIDBI officers on sustainable banking

Volunteer lifting a bundle of waste out of thick water hyacinth — Lifting waste from the hyacinth

Crowded classroom of students during an Earth5R environment session — Crowded classroom session

Earth5R volunteer at the Xynteo zero waste corporate event venue in Mumbai — Earth5R at the Xynteo zero waste event

Earth5R volunteers speaking with residents during a community survey near new buildings — Volunteers speaking with residents

Students seated in rows listening during an Earth5R environment session in Bengaluru outskirts, Bengaluru — Students listening in a hall

Saurabh Gupta explaining odour-free aerobic composting to housing society residents, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Explaining odour-free aerobic composting

Residents displaying upcycled items made from waste at an outdoor stall — Upcycled goods display

Volunteer digging a planting pit with a pickaxe on a green field — Digging a pit for a sapling

Students carrying waste from the pond edge during a cleanup — Students hauling waste

Earth5R volunteers kneeling to fill blue tubs with soil as residents look on in Mumbai — Filling planting tubs with soil

Students eagerly raising hands during an Earth5R environment quiz — Eager students answering

Earth5R volunteers on a garbage-strewn vacant plot with high-rise towers behind — Garbage-strewn plot below high-rises

Earth5R team fitting a solar panel on a street light under Hexaware's SolarOne CSR project in Navi Mumbai — Fitting solar panels for Hexaware’s SolarOne project

Earth5R volunteers with bundles of plastic bottles at a scrap shop — Plastic bottles at a scrap shop

Local ragpicker collecting floating waste on the Yamuna River, an Earth5R social partnership in Delhi — Ragpicker collects floating waste on the Yamuna

Earth5R volunteer being interviewed on camera at a riverside cleanup — Interview at a riverside cleanup

Earth5R volunteers working with waste collectors at a collection point in Mithi River, Mumbai — Working with waste collectors

Students wearing Earth5R badges standing with bags of collected litter on a forest trail in Mulund West, Mumbai — Students with collected litter bags

Earth5R team members talking with officials during a site visit — Meeting officials on site

Earth5R volunteer briefing housekeeping staff in a society compound in Powai, Mumbai — Briefing society staff

Earth5R volunteer bagging waste in the grass beside a highway — Bagging waste by the highway

Children sitting on a terrace making crafts from waste paper with Earth5R volunteers — Children’s craft on a terrace

Residents and Earth5R volunteers beside a red Earth5R collection bin in a building lobby — Earth5R collection bin in a building lobby

Volunteer in a white T-shirt clearing waste from tall grass — Clearing waste from tall grass

Girls and women seated on the floor making crafts against an orange wall in Powai, Mumbai — Girls and women making crafts

Earth5R volunteer training a woman to make paper bags in her home in Mumbai — Volunteer training a woman to make paper bags in her home

Earth5R volunteers emptying bags of beach waste into a dumpster beside the road — Emptying cleanup bags into a dumpster

Corporate volunteer team gathered with bags of collected waste after a field cleanup — Corporate team after a cleanup

Earth5R team with waste collectors and bags of recovered plastic on the Mithi River bank, Mumbai — Recovered plastic bags on the Mithi River bank

Women volunteers in red with garbage bags at a lake cleanup — Women volunteers with garbage bags by the lake

Volunteers gathering for a briefing on a lakeside path before a cleanup — Briefing before a lake cleanup

Girls showing small crafts made from waste material at an Earth5R workshop in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Showing upcycled crafts

Volunteers and residents clearing a waste spot under trees — Clearing a waste spot

Earth5R team and Saurabh Gupta at the JSW Times of India Earth Care Awards in Mumbai — Earth5R team at the JSW Earth Care Awards

Two Earth5R team members beside blue and green compost drums in a housing society garden in Powai, Mumbai — Compost drums in a society garden

Volunteer sorting bottles and waste collected along the lake wall — Sorting the day’s haul

Delegates talking at a project stand at the Paris Peace Forum — Delegates at a Paris Peace Forum project stand

Colourful awareness mural painted on a wall in a community lane — Street mural in a community lane

Volunteer jogging down a residential street during a plogging run — Plogging run through a residential street

Earth5R volunteer talking with a scrap dealer among bundles of plastic in Mumbai — Talking with a scrap dealer

Residents gathered beside a row of parked cars with new segregation bins in Powai, Mumbai — Residents with new bins

Earth5R volunteers and a local resident with a large sack of collected waste on a street — Collecting waste with a resident

Children lined up in a narrow lane during an Earth5R community drive in Mumbai — Children lined up in a lane

Resident with blue and green home composting drums on a terrace, plants behind — Home composting drums on a terrace

Volunteers forming a chain to pass waste up a lake bank — Chain of volunteers on the bank

Earth5R volunteers talking with a woman inside her home during a household survey — Household survey inside a home

Audience at an Earth5R sustainability seminar in front of a presentation screen — Seminar audience and presentation

Smiling Earth5R volunteers after crossing the Yamuna for a river cleanup in Delhi — Volunteers after the Yamuna river cleanup

Earth5R volunteers potting plants using compost made from household waste — Potting plants with compost

Students on stage taking part in a waste segregation demonstration with colour-coded bins — Students take part in a stage demonstration

Student volunteers collecting waste in the lake area during an Earth5R cleanup in Mumbai — Students collect waste in the lake area

Sacks of collected dry waste at a street collection point visited by Earth5R — Collection point on a street

Residents gathered for Earth5R composting training around a drum composter in Mumbai — Composting training around a drum composter

Earth5R volunteer bagging waste on a green river embankment — Bagging waste on a river embankment

Earth5R volunteers with residents in a colourful slum lane during an awareness visit — Volunteers in a slum lane

Women waste workers in hi-vis vests sorting dry waste in a shed in Mumbai — Women waste workers sort dry waste

Students raking waste on a green slope during a cleanup — Raking waste on a slope

Earth5R volunteer behind rows of plastic and glass bottles recovered from a lake — Bottles recovered from the lake

Volunteers filling white sacks with waste beside a fence in Mumbai — Filling sacks by a fence

Two schoolboys planting a sapling in a school garden bed — Schoolboys plant a sapling

Corporate volunteers collecting waste on a lawn beside a canal — Corporate team at a canal

Earth5R volunteer holding up waste recovered from the Powai Lake shore, Mumbai — Volunteer shows recovered waste

Students gathering under umbrellas for a monsoon lake cleanup briefing — Students under umbrellas

Women residents holding Earth5R programme sheets after a session in a community hall in Powai, Mumbai — Women holding programme sheets

Volunteers carrying a green banner during an awareness march — Banner march on the road

Volunteers and residents walking through a green lane during an awareness walk — Walk through a green lane

Volunteers in white T-shirts bagging waste along a roadside — Bagging roadside waste

Mumbai volunteers submitting plantation data on the Earth5R app and earning volunteer credits — Volunteers submit plantation data and earn credits

Earth5R volunteers walking through a decorated lane during an awareness visit — Walk through a festive lane

Women carrying a green bucket and sacks during a street cleanup — Women join a street cleanup

Earth5R volunteer with a survey sheet talking with girls in a residential lane — Survey with lane residents

International visitors talking with a local resident on a waterfront during a community visit — Visitors talk with a local resident

Four volunteers with gloves and a black bag collecting trash on a beach, the sea behind — Volunteers collect trash on the beach

Earth5R team member beside the project poster at the Paris Peace Forum — Presenting the project poster

Earth5R volunteers with a crowd of children in a colourful slum lane in Mumbai — Children’s rally in a lane

Corporate volunteers in white clearing waste from a green hedge by a fence — Corporate volunteers clear a hedge

Earth5R team installing exhibition panels at a zero waste corporate event venue in Mumbai — Installing panels at a zero waste event

Earth5R volunteers standing with women residents outside homes after a community session — Volunteers standing with women residents outside homes after a community session

Earth5R volunteers bagging roadside waste near Powai Lake in Mumbai — Bagging roadside waste near Powai Lake

Machine processing shredded plastic at a recycling unit — Recycling machine at work

Students at their desks during an Earth5R classroom session — Classroom session in a school

Waste worker with sacks beside a large roadside garbage heap — Waste worker with sacks by a roadside heap

Pile of discarded plastic jerrycans waiting for recycling — Pile of old plastic jerrycans

Earth5R volunteer with children at the start of a neighbourhood cleanup — Children join a cleanup

Volunteer collecting waste in a bucket beside a pond — Collecting waste by a pond

River debris laid out for an Earth5R waste audit — Waste audit of river debris

Children cheering with Earth5R volunteers during a neighbourhood drive — Children cheer at a drive

Plastic waste littered across a back lane between buildings — Littered back lane

Earth5R team explaining plastic grades to local waste collectors in the Mithi River catchment in Mumbai — Explaining plastic grades to waste collectors

School children learning to make bags from waste newspaper in an Earth5R environmental education session — School children learn to make newspaper bags

Overflowing bin and spilled waste on a city footpath under trees — Overflowing bin on a footpath

Framed religious picture, left as a ritual offering, recovered from Powai Lake in Mumbai during an Earth5R cleanup — Religious picture recovered from a lake

Groups seated on the grass under tall trees for an Earth5R nature session — Nature session under trees

Volunteers collecting litter along a tree-lined park trail in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai — Cleanup along a park trail

Saurabh Gupta of Earth5R sorting recovered plastic with a stitching shop that makes waste collection sacks — Sorting recovered plastic at a partner stitching shop

Masked Earth5R volunteer talking with women in a narrow lane during a door-to-door awareness visit — Masked volunteer on a door-to-door visit

Polluted stagnant pond with floating plastic waste in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Plastic floating in a stagnant pond

Group of volunteers gathered on a paved plaza after an awareness march — Volunteers gathered after a march

People gathered by a lake at sunrise for an Earth5R morning session in Mumbai — Lakeside gathering at sunrise

Cigarette butts collected during an Earth5R beach cleanup at Juhu, kept out of the marine food chain in Mumbai — Cigarette butts collected at Juhu beach

Hexaware employees clearing litter around a riverside waste bin during the Earth5R cleanup in Pune. Earth5R Volunteer team leader Sonam Sengar — Clearing litter around a riverside bin

School children holding saplings during an Earth5R plantation and sapling care session — Children with saplings at a school plantation session

Volunteer in a yellow T-shirt picking waste from weeds on a lake bank — Picking waste from weeds

Local women and a girl showing handmade upcycled fabric dolls, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Local women and a girl showing handmade upcycled fabric dolls

Residents and children joining Earth5R volunteers in a lane activity in Mumbai — Community drive in a lane

Earth5R volunteer with a full garbage bag and a religious picture recovered from Powai Lake, Mumbai — Volunteer with recovered waste and a religious picture

Women and volunteers making paper bags on the floor of a home — Paper bag making at home

Earth5R volunteer speaking with a microphone to a packed school hall — Speaking to the school

Volunteers with bags beside a heap of collected bottles on a grassy lakeside slope — Heap of collected bottles on a slope

Earth5R volunteers demonstrating composting to students at a table — Compost demo for students

Residents seated and standing in a lane for a community meeting with Earth5R volunteers — Residents gather in a lane meeting

Two waste pickers filling sacks with recyclables on a rocky, garbage-covered shoreline — Waste pickers on a garbage-covered shore

Two young trainees presenting their plan at a whiteboard during an Earth5R training workshop — Presenting at a whiteboard

Children showing T-shirts they decorated in an upcycling and art session in Powai, Mumbai — Children show T-shirts they decorated

Parent and child picking litter from a hedge in a park — Parent and child cleanup

Line of corporate volunteers in white T-shirts behind a row of sorted waste from their cleanup — Corporate volunteers behind sorted waste

Earth5R volunteer helping schoolboys plant in the soil of the school garden — Volunteer helps schoolboys plant

Earth5R volunteers on a wall beside a polluted creek during a site visit — Volunteers by a polluted creek

Calm river with monitoring marker poles, mangroves behind — Monitoring markers in a river

Earth5R street hackathon setup by a lake where citizens develop climate solutions in Mumbai — Street hackathon setup by the lake

Earth5R volunteers Sonam Sengar and Madhavi Ninganu with grabbers on the Mula Mutha riverbank during a cleanup in Pune — Riverbank cleanup with grabbers

Participants at an Earth5R sustainability training session in a hotel hall — Sustainability training in a hotel hall

Earth5R volunteers talking with people seated on the grass in a park, a red sandstone monument behind in Delhi — Outreach in a park by a monument

Boy and an Earth5R volunteer with a garbage bag on a lakeside path in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Boy and volunteer clean a lakeside path

Blue compost planters with young plants set up by Earth5R volunteers — Compost planters with plants

Earth5R volunteer speaking with a footwear shopkeeper about cloth bags — Plastic-free bag drive

Two men with orange float sections of a trash boom on a dry riverbank — Laying out a river trash boom

Earth5R volunteer giving a demonstration on stage to school students — Demonstration on stage

Twin green and blue bins for compost and segregated waste in a society garden — Twin compost and waste bins in a garden

Volunteers segregating waste collected from the lake area on sheets during an Earth5R cleanup in Mumbai — Volunteers segregate lake cleanup waste

Plastic cups being sorted for recycling at an informal recycling unit in Mumbai, Earth5R CSR programme — Plastic cups sorted for recycling

Rows of rooftop solar panels at a site visited by Earth5R for clean energy work — Rooftop solar array

Volunteer team posing behind collected waste after a seaside cleanup in Mumbai — Team after a seaside cleanup

Waste collectors and Earth5R team with a bulk bag of recovered PET bottles for recycling in Mumbai — Bulk bag of recovered PET bottles

Corporate staff and Earth5R volunteers lined up in a building lobby after a drive in Mumbai — Corporate team at a building lobby

Earth5R volunteers with the waste and religious items they recovered from Powai Lake, Mumbai — Team with recovered lake waste

Saurabh Gupta of Earth5R training society residents on segregation and composting at a society event in Powai, Mumbai — Residents trained on segregation at a society event

Volunteers standing around collected waste laid out for a waste audit — Audit of collected waste

Earth5R volunteers walking a forest road during a cleanup — Volunteers on a forest road

Young woman holding a cardboard sign reading I will not litter because #ImEarth, Earth5R CSR programme — Young woman holding a cardboard sign reading I will not litter because #ImEarth

Earth5R volunteers inside a small recycling unit full of sorted material — Inside a recycling unit

Residents gathered at a large garbage heap on a street to plan its cleanup — Residents gather at a garbage black spot

Saurabh Gupta showing building staff how to use an organic waste composting machine supplied by Earth5R — Training staff on an organic waste composting machine

Volunteers weighing and logging collected waste at a sorting centre in Mumbai — Weighing collected waste

Two volunteers working on a muddy, overgrown lake bank with a bag of collected waste in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Working in a muddy lake bank

Cheerful group of women and children gathered in a lane during Earth5R community outreach in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Women and children at a community outreach

Volunteers crouched on the floor sorting materials laid out for upcycling — Sorting materials for upcycling

Crowd of about 40 volunteers walking along the beach towards a waterfront building — Crowd of volunteers heading out on the beach

Residents and children gathered by a road for an Earth5R community activity — Community gathering by the road

Women taking part in an Earth5R livelihood workshop held in a narrow lane — Workshop in a narrow lane

Earth5R volunteers and residents with collected waste on a path in the monsoon rain — Monsoon cleanup with residents

Earth5R volunteers training women and children in front of the Red Fort, Delhi — Training women and children at the Red Fort

Citizens install an Earth5R waste management composting unit in their housing society premises in Mumbai — Citizens install a waste management unit

Volunteers picking up waste on a cleared plot of land — Picking waste on a cleared plot

Women and Earth5R volunteers planting a sapling together in a park — Women plant a sapling in a park

Paper mache bowls made from old newspaper at an Earth5R upcycling workshop, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Paper mache bowls made from old newspaper at an Earth5R upcycling workshop

Earth5R volunteers hauling large black garbage bags during a cleanup under a flyover — Hauling garbage bags under a flyover

Volunteer pressing soil around a sapling during a plantation drive — Pressing soil around a sapling

Earth5R volunteer talking to an auto-rickshaw driver about littering and waste in Mumbai — Talking to an auto-rickshaw driver

Volunteers picking litter on a lake bank on a cloudy day — Lake bank litter pick

Sacks filled with plastic bottles collected for recycling in Mithi River, Mumbai — Sacks of plastic bottles

Earth5R founder Saurabh Gupta showing security guards and staff how to segregate waste correctly, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — Segregation demonstration for security staff

Earth5R volunteers celebrating after a hard morning of lake cleanup — Volunteers celebrate after a lake cleanup

Two women at a sewing machine, one teaching the other to stitch cloth bags — Women learning to sew bags

Project stands and visitors in the exhibition hall of the Paris Peace Forum — Project stands at the forum

Volunteer using a tool to clear waste from tall grass — Clearing tall grass

Hexaware employee volunteers at an Earth5R corporate CSR cleanup on the Mula Mutha river in Pune — Hexaware river cleanup on the Mula Mutha

Women and girls making upcycled products at home during an Earth5R livelihood session in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Women crafting at home

Plastic waste floating in a polluted urban stream documented by Earth5R in Mumbai — Polluted stream in the city

Earth5R volunteer addressing students and teachers in a school ground — Outdoor school session

Volunteers sorting heaps of collected waste on a promenade as passers-by watch — Sorting heaps of collected waste

Volunteers filling white sacks with waste on a roadside during a cleanup — Filling sacks by the road

Audience seated at an Earth5R awareness event in a hall — Audience at an evening event

Participants at the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub workshop in Bengaluru attended by Earth5R — UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub workshop

Earth5R volunteers with I'm Earth badges holding a waste bag on a city street — Volunteers with I’m Earth badges holding a waste bag on a city street

Earth5R volunteers with backpacks setting off on a forest trail for a nature walk in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai — Volunteers set off on a forest trail

Earth5R founder Saurabh Gupta with Google leaders Austin Shoemaker and Aditya Swami in Singapore — Saurabh Gupta with Google leaders in Singapore

Plastic bag litter lying in the grass along a footpath before a cleanup — Plastic in the grass

Participants seated in a circle in a park for an Earth5R session — Group session in a park

Earth5R volunteers holding survey forms while speaking with residents in a narrow lane — Survey forms with residents

Volunteers walking across a beach with bags, buildings and palms behind — Volunteers crossing a Mumbai beach with bags

Children holding up handmade posters during an Earth5R street activity in Powai, Mumbai — Children with handmade posters

Earth5R trainer addressing about 20 women seated on the floor of a community hall in Powai, Mumbai — Training session for women in a community hall

Students in white T-shirts picking waste on a grassy bank — Students on a grassy bank

School students and teachers standing with Earth5R volunteers in a classroom — Students with teachers

Plastic recovery collection point on the Mithi River run with local waste collectors and Earth5R in Mumbai — Plastic recovery collection point

Crowd of students in orange and white vests gathered on a riverside for a cleanup — Students gather for a riverside cleanup

Student volunteers downloading the Earth5R app to log data at a lake cleanup in Mumbai — Volunteers download the Earth5R app at a lake cleanup

Earth5R volunteer helping girls with an upcycling craft activity in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Craft session with girls

Earth5R volunteers clearing waste from a hyacinth-choked stream edge — Clearing a hyacinth-choked stream edge

Students discussing in groups during an Earth5R classroom session — Students in discussion

Earth5R team reviewing plastic waste sorting at a material recovery facility in Mumbai — Plastic waste sorting review at a material recovery facility

Volunteers bending to pick litter on a grassy bank — Weeding and litter picking

Earth5R team at a felicitation on stage at a farmers conclave on organic farming — Felicitation at a farmers conclave

Workers sorting colourful dry waste by hand at a sorting centre — Sorting dry waste by hand

Plastic waste and debris on a muddy shore documented before a cleanup — Plastic on a muddy shore

Earth5R volunteers speaking to students from the front of an auditorium in Bengaluru outskirts, Bengaluru — Speaking to an audience

Volunteers counting items recovered from a lake for a waste audit — Counting recovered items

Earth5R volunteers preparing to cross the Yamuna River by boat for a cleanup in Delhi — Volunteers prepare to cross the Yamuna by boat

Children and parents planting saplings along a compound wall — Planting with families

Corporate volunteers in white T-shirts hauling a tarp of collected waste beside a lake — Corporate volunteers haul a tarp of waste

Volunteer bending to pick litter from undergrowth during a forest cleanup in Mulund West, Mumbai — Picking litter in undergrowth

Two Earth5R volunteers holding up glass bottles and cans beside sorted bottle caps and waste — Volunteers show bottles and cans from an audit

Earth5R representative at the Earth5R project stand at the Paris Peace Forum — Earth5R stand at Paris Peace Forum

Volunteers carrying sacks of collected waste along a park path in Mumbai — Volunteers carry sacks along a path

Earth5R volunteer carrying saplings into an informal settlement for the rooftop plantation programme in Mumbai — Carrying saplings into the settlement

SIDBI officers attending an Earth5R sustainable banking training in their office in Mumbai by Saurabh Gupta — SIDBI officers attend sustainable banking training

Plastic and garbage strewn across a shoreline road at dawn — Garbage strewn across a shoreline road at dawn

Earth5R volunteers at the Xynteo zero waste corporate event in Mumbai — Earth5R volunteers at the Xynteo event

Young volunteer hugging a tree trunk and holding a sign for a tree conservation awareness drive — Tree hug for tree conservation

Earth5R volunteers bagging waste beside a roadside hedge — Bagging roadside waste

Young woman making a paper bag from newspaper with other women around her — Making paper bags from newspaper

Earth5R volunteers training women on waste segregation on the lawns near the Red Fort, Delhi — Training women on waste segregation in Delhi

Earth5R volunteer and children around a bag of collected waste on a path in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Children with a bag of collected waste

Earth5R volunteers with women waste workers in a dry waste sorting shed in Mumbai — Volunteers and women workers in a sorting shed

Students listening to an Earth5R talk in a school hall with a stage screen — Talk in a school hall

Plastic bottles washed up on a beach with walkers behind — Plastic bottles washed up on a beach

Earth5R volunteers surveying a shopkeeper about plastic use — Shopkeeper survey

Woman helping a toddler plant a sapling during a family plantation drive — Helping a toddler plant a sapling

Volunteers spread across a green lake bank during a cleanup — Team on the green bank

Earth5R volunteer potting plants in tubs in a turquoise-walled lane in Mumbai — Potting plants in a community lane

Students and teachers listening to an Earth5R volunteer outdoors — Students in the school ground

Volunteers standing behind sorted waste from the Powai Lake cleanup laid out for a waste audit, Earth5R CSR programme — Sorted waste from the Powai Lake cleanup

Earth5R at the 8th Indian Health and Wellness Summit and Awards, where Earth5R was an award recipient — Earth5R at the Indian Health and Wellness Summit and Awards

Woman sewing on a machine at an Earth5R supported livelihood skills centre — Sewing at a skills centre

Family volunteers kneeling to sort collected litter into bags on a park path — Family volunteers sort litter on a path

Homes with blue tarpaulin roofs in a settlement surveyed by Earth5R — Settlement homes up close

Jahaan Gupta and Earth5R volunteers picking litter from a slope near Powai Lake, Mumbai — Jahaan Gupta and volunteers pick litter near Powai Lake

Aerial view of a small boat working on dark polluted river water — Boat on a polluted river from above

Earth5R volunteers walking through a housing colony during a door-to-door survey in Powai / Chandivali, Mumbai — Survey in a housing colony

Earth5R volunteers with residents and children at an outdoor waste management session — Outdoor waste management session

Crowd of student volunteers gathered around sorted waste after a cleanup — Crowd sorting waste

Residents and volunteers planting saplings in a housing society garden — Planting in a society garden

Collected glass bottles and waste laid out in rows on the ground for counting — Glass bottles laid out in rows

A sapling growing inside a discarded bottle cap found during an Earth5R cleanup at Powai Lake, Mumbai — Sapling growing in a discarded bottle cap

Waste collectors sorting plastic bottles and containers into buckets during Earth5R training at the Mithi River in Mumbai — Plastic bottle sorting during training

Volunteers holding a green banner at an awareness rally — Volunteers with a green banner at a rally

Volunteers in white T-shirts on a plogging run along an open road — Volunteers on a plogging run

Earth5R volunteers standing behind a row of new segregation bins — Volunteers with new bins

Earth5R volunteers Sonam Sengar, Shriyam Jalan, Manasi running a sustainable living workshop for housing society residents — Sustainable living workshop for residents

Earth5R volunteers working on a river bank among trees — Volunteers on a tree-lined river bank

Housing society residents with the Earth5R team and a drum composter after going zero waste in Powai, Mumbai — Residents of a zero waste society with their composter

Woman sewing upcycled cloth while seated on a red sofa — Sewing upcycled cloth at home

Volunteer lifting waste out of a canal with a long pole — Lifting waste from a canal

Close-up of a volunteer planting a sapling during an Earth5R plantation drive — Planting a sapling

Women and residents at a community meeting in a courtyard with laundry hanging overhead — Community meeting in a courtyard

Volunteer collecting waste along a grassy river bank — Cleanup along a river bank

International student volunteers meeting residents in a settlement lane, Earth5R CSR programme in Mumbai — International student volunteers meeting residents in a settlement lane

Earth5R volunteers kneeling on the grass to record survey data in Delhi — Recording field data

Earth5R volunteers filling bags along a lakeside promenade during a weekend cleanup — Weekend lakeside cleanup

Earth5R environmental education session with school children in a classroom — Classroom environmental education session

Residents and volunteers gathered together after a plantation drive — Plantation drive team

Plastic waste piled along a polluted stream bank, a site for Earth5R river work — Polluted stream bank

Earth5R volunteer crouching in dense undergrowth to look at plants during a biodiversity nature walk in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai — Spotting plants on a nature walk

Waste audit of cigarette butts, bottles and wrappers recovered at an Earth5R lake cleanup in Powai, Mumbai — Waste audit of lake cleanup litter

Earth5R volunteers clearing litter on the lakeside — Clearing litter on the lakeside

Freshly planted sapling in a dug pit during an Earth5R tree planting drive — Sapling planted in a pit

Waste worker among sacks of collected plastic in a recycling yard — Waste worker among sacks of plastic

Residents and Earth5R volunteers gathered for a neighbourhood cleanup — Residents join a cleanup

Hexaware employees with the Earth5R team after a CSR beach cleanup at Juhu, Mumbai — Hexaware team after the Juhu beach cleanup

Earth5R volunteer kneeling with children making paper crafts in a courtyard in Powai, Mumbai — Paper craft session with children

Waste worker sorting bags from a large garbage heap — Sorting a garbage heap

Two men inspecting a red composting machine with an Earth5R sticker — Inspecting a composting machine

Saurabh Gupta of Earth5R receiving a leadership award certificate on stage in Mumbai — Saurabh Gupta receives a CSR leadership award

Volunteers and residents clearing waste from an overgrown patch of ground — Residents help clear an overgrown patch

Earth5R volunteer presenting circular economy basics to residents in a community hall — Circular economy presentation for residents

Lufthansa employee volunteers and the Earth5R team segregating waste during a Juhu beach cleanup in Mumbai — Lufthansa volunteers segregate waste at Juhu beach

Earth5R volunteers talking with a worker and residents at a scrap and recycling site — Meeting workers at a scrap site

Earth5R running a corporate sustainability workshop in a Mumbai office boardroom — Corporate sustainability workshop

Corporate volunteers in white T-shirts working on open ground during a cleanup drive — Corporate team at a cleanup

Volunteer filling sacks with plastic waste on a littered beach — Sacking beach plastic

Earth5R volunteer training visitors on recycling and responsible consumption at a public event stall — Training visitors on recycling at a public event

Hexaware employee volunteers with garbage bags at the Earth5R Mula Mutha river cleanup in Pune. Shriyam Jalan — Hexaware volunteers with collected waste

Earth5R volunteers with the bags of waste they collected at a lake cleanup — Lake cleanup volunteers and their haul

Students with bags picking litter from a grassy slope beside a path in Mumbai — Students clean a lakeside slope

Truck being loaded with collected waste while a volunteer supervises — Truck loading collected waste

Water hyacinth and waste choking the edge of a lake before a cleanup in Powai Lake, Mumbai — Lakeside weeds and waste

Volunteers sorting collected waste on a promenade with buildings behind — Sorting waste on a city promenade

Saurabh Gupta with student volunteers at the Earth5R Powai Lake cleanup on World Environment Day in Mumbai — Powai Lake cleanup volunteers

Earth5R founder saurabh gupta volunteers ketul patel, ishit patel, Ayesha Syed training citizens on the lawns in front of the Red Fort, Delhi — Citizen training on the Red Fort lawns

Volunteers cleaning waste along a lake wall overgrown with plants — Cleanup along a lake wall

Earth5R CSR NGO cleanup drive: volunteers with I'm Earth badges and bags of collected waste in Mumbai

What a CSR NGO partnership with Earth5R looks like

Most companies start by searching for a CSR NGO. What they actually need is a partner that can plan the programme, find the right NGO on the ground, run the work and prove the impact. That is the role Earth5R plays. We design the programme around your focus area and location, bring in a partner NGO that already works with that community, and manage delivery through our own field teams and volunteers.

The photos on this page come from that work: river and neighbourhood cleanups, plastic waste management, upcycling and paper bag livelihoods for women, and environmental education in schools and community halls. Each activity is recorded as field data, so it feeds straight into your ESG and BRSR reporting. Programmes are mapped to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. For finished projects with full numbers, see our CSR and ESG projects and the Mithi River case study.

For CSR teams

Earth5R designs, runs and reports CSR projects in waste management, recycling, water and climate action, with documented field evidence like the photos on this page.

Partner selection

We bring in the right partner NGO for each location and community, so your budget reaches the ground through an organisation that already works there.

Measured for ESG

Field activity is recorded through the Earth5R app and reporting framework, giving companies verifiable impact data for their ESG and BRSR disclosures.

Planning a CSR project or looking for an NGO partner?

Tell us your focus area and city. We will propose a programme, the partner NGO and how impact will be measured.

Talk to Earth5R