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A Shivamogga fruit trader has switched to woven bamboo crates for local movement, ordering 4,000 in the first season. The crates cost more than plastic but last three seasons and are repaired by the same workshop.
The workshop now takes about six tonnes of cotton cutting waste a month from nearby garment units and converts it into handmade paper and packaging. The units previo…
Members have voted to stop fishing in two backwater stretches for two months during the breeding season, an agreement enforced by the collective itself. A hardship f…
A common effluent treatment plant now serves forty printing units that previously discharged dye water individually. Running costs are shared by volume treated, whic…