Index of items RE-Plastic


1. Garbage bag/ Plastic Bag substitutes: 

  1. Envigreen bags: from starch
  2. Make your own cloth bags or totes: https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-downtown/sew-them-away/article24285151.ece  
  3. Buy cloth bags from Self-Help Groups
  4. Origami - Old Newspaper to Garbage bin liner YouTube tutorial
 

2. Edible Cutlery

  1. Bakey's Edible Cutlery from millet flour
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/eat-your-spoon/article24174845.ece


3. Cleaning our Surroundings, Waterbodies, Seas & Oceans of  Plastic

  1. Plogging  
  2. Fishing for Plastic in Dutch canals as entertainment
  3. Kollam fishermen trained to bring back plastic that comes up with catch, women trained to sort and upcycle Ocean Plastic (National Geographic Report) 
  4. Fishermen and Ocean Plastic
  5. Boyan Slat & The Ocean Cleanup
  6. EFI Lake Cleanup
  7. Chennai Trekker's Club Chennai Coastal Cleanup
  8. Chennai Beach Cleanup
  9. Cleanup of Versova Beach - Afroz Shah
  10. Floating netting with plastic bottles as floating barrier at mouths of rivers to halt plastic - Central American Innovation.


4.  Re.Plastic Changemakers (To Be updated!)

[4.I] SHELBY O'NEIL & JR. OCEAN GUARDIANS - a 17-year-old girl scout from California who got Alaska Airlines to remove plastic straws & fruit/veg/meat picks from its inflight cutlery inventory. Cheers to her: see the Aug 26, 2018 blog-post for more on the initiative.

5. Documentaries, art installations and videos that highlight the plastic problem

  1. Plastic China
  2. A Plastic Ocean

6. Food containers/Green takeaway boxes

  1. From bagasse (Sugarcane fibre)
  2. From Crop residue
  3. From Agriwaste
  4. From molded Areca leaves
  5. From molded banana plants

7. Non-plastic Straws

  1.  Pasta straw
  2. Cardboard straw  (McD & KFC plan to use these in UK/EU)
  3. Bamboo straw
  4. Metal straw
  5. Keychain with portable metal straw 
  6. Edible Straw (other than pasta): Multiple Edible Straw options & recipes from Tastemade UK. Method: Spread the raw material on a flat clean surface with a spoon, Roll onto a wooden/heat safe stick & cook or cool as required
 (a) Melted Jolly Rancher rainbow straw (gummy candy) - used for fruit juices - shown with lemonade
(b) Bacon Straw for Bloody Mary/Virgin Mary/Veggie Juices - using a bacon strip which is baked after rolling onto the stick.
(c) Cookie Straw coated with white chocolate with sprinkles for milk & milkshakes etc.
(d)

8. Substitutes for Plastic Water bottle

  1. - Clay water bottle
  2. -Metal water flask
  3. -Glass water bottles
  4. -Water capsule - edible pouch of water 
  5. Seaweed water/milk bottle

9. Recycling

  1.  The Plastic Bank from Denmark
  2. Road laying
  3. Water bottle bricks
  4. Carbon nanotubes from polythene bags
  5. Furniture from waste plastic
  6. Waste to Energy: Plastic to Oil via pyrolysis indigenous IIT tech and innovations
  7. Styrofoam to carbon nanotubes through pyrolysis
  8. Affordable homes from waste plastics & tetrapacks
10. Things that Break Down Plastic

  1. - Plastic eating mushroom from Pakistan
  2. - Plastic eating worm 
  3. - Enzyme that breaks down plastic 
  4. - Thermacol + Acetylene (Nail polish remover) = Mouldable - Indian schoolgirl's discovery 


July 1, 2018, The Hindu:
Insights from the Business Line editor on making Plastic Bans effective:
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/aiming-to-be-like-sikkim/article24301028.ece

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