A Wichita State University senior is about reducing, reusing and recycling for a final project this semester that's part art and utility. WSU Senior and Plarn Project ICT leader Samantha Cosgrove said ...

At the Malaysian Estate, an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Apo, several women are convened in the main room of an uncompleted building chatting but hard at work on different tasks. A ...

Stacked in a neat pile in Rajiben Vankar’s house in Kutch’s Ahmednagar village is a bounty of plastic bags. On a clothes line are rows of washed bags drying under the sun. Rajiben is sitting on a ...

WEAVING is slowly becoming a dying art as younger generations are reluctant to carry it forward. After all, clothes are readily available with fast fashion dominating today’s market. However, fast ...

Rajiben's journey took a transformative turn when she was introduced to an NGO working for the welfare of weaver communities. This is where Rajiben learned how to upcycle plastic into different ...

The colourful koodais (baskets) that your grandmum wove with tubes of plastic just became haute couture. All thanks to Kavitha Chandran and her brand of bags, Urmi. Chandran, who employs women from in ...

As the sun beats down on a traditional loom in Burkina Faso's morning heat, a curious shiny material starts to emerge. Not your usual cotton texture, the weft criss-crosses over-and-under, and the ...

In this episode of USHA-Clothes With A Conscience, we meet the Vankar and Rabari communities of Gujarat. While Rajiben is turning plastic into products, Pabiben is reviving the traditional Rabari ...

Everything has value - even plastic. Over 60 percent of India’s plastic waste goes for recycling, according to the Central Pollution Control Board. Across the country, high-value plastic waste such as ...