Meet Anish Malpani of Ashaya, the start-up rolling out the world’s first sunglasses from recycled chips packets

Meet Anish Malpani of Ashaya, the start-up rolling out the world’s first sunglasses from recycled chips packets

Watch | Making sunglasses out of recycled chips packets The next time you trash that chips packet wrapper, it may just end up in a pair of sunglasses. Surprised? Pune-based Anish Malpani was too when he realised the untapped potential Multi-Layered Plastics (MLP) hold. Having spent the last two years experimenting in his firm Ashaya’s […]

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Samsung commits to using more ocean-bound plastics in Galaxy devices

Samsung commits to using more ocean-bound plastics in Galaxy devices

Samsung will use more recycled and ocean-bound plastic in its Galaxy devices. During a media roundtable, the company said that 50 per cent of its Galaxy products will incorporate recycled plastic resin by 2030, with plans to increase that number to 100 per cent by 2050. “Every year, around 640,000 tons of fishing nets end […]

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H&M recycled plastic button fashion

H&M recycled plastic button fashion

Plastic waste collected by Bengaluru’s informal waste pickers turn into buttons for H&M’s garments produced in India Plastic waste collected by Bengaluru’s informal waste pickers turn into buttons for H&M’s garments produced in India After sustainability-led initiatives such as garment recycling and their most recent biodegradable line of baby clothes, global retailer H&M has now […]

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