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Are you an environmentalist looking for women-owned sustainable products to support? Here are 5 sustainability business led by Indian women!
5 Sustainability Business In India Run By Women!
Are you an environmentalist looking for women-owned sustainable products to support?
Do you wish to show your support for the women killing it in the world of business, but also don’t want to shop for non-sustainable products? We have the solution for you- women-owned sustainable businesses.
Now you can shop to your heart’s content, knowing you are supporting both women and the planet.
A sustainable business is one which is ethical and has fair labour practises, it promotes diversity and inclusivity, is eco-friendly at every end, and is financially viable for consumers, even if it is on the pricier end.
Most sustainable products often are.
A woman-owned business is a business that is either owned fully by a woman or one of the founding members is a woman. Indian women are truly killing it in the start-up field, with many women-owned businesses like MamaEarth becoming unicorns.
Thus, it is no wonder that Indian women are also making their mark on the sustainability field. Here are a few women-owned sustainable businesses that you can support today.
BLI is India’s first and only plastic-free marketplace. As of July 2022, they prevented the release of 2, 03,602 kilograms of plastic into landfills, making a real mark against plastic pollution. Chaitisi Ahuja is the CEO of Brown Living India.
This start-up provides waste management services such as the collection, segregation, and recycling of waste for various industries. In 2021-22, they received aggregated and managed 32,222 MT of wet, dry, and e-waste, 98% of which was tracked and reached an authorized end destination that was not a landfill. Wilma Rodrigus is the CEO of Saahas Zero Waste.
From eco-friendly paper to notebooks made from agricultural waste, BlueCat Paper is making a real mark against the waste problem. To make it even better, the organization runs on renewable energy and uses water conversion practices.
It was found in April 2022 that since its inception in 2019, BlueCat Paper has saved over 70000 trees from being cut for paper. Mrs Kavya Madappa is the CEO of BlueCat Paper.
GiftGreen is a sustainability startup that sells sustainable products ranging from gifts that grow into plants to upcycled clothing and sustainable skincare. They also have products for sustainable menstruation.
Their motto, with their first product-seed flags for Independence Day – was “Don’t throw me, Grow me.” Mansi Shah is the CEO of Gift Green India.
Muses_Saga is a sustainable publishing house that provides zero-cost publishing. They also offer the option of free online reading. Their website is hosted on a sustainable server and their books are made onof recycled paper.
In 2022, they published 12 books, which sold over 100 copies. By procuring around 1800 parent sheets of sustainable paper, they were able to save 112 trees while providing quality reading material to the people. Anjali Roongta is the founder of Muses_Saga
Living a sustainable life is not possible for everyone. From access issues to cultural conflicts, healthy sustainability is often imperfect sustainability. Organizations like this are important because they make sustainability accessible through the means of options.
Whether it be Muses_Saga helping make the publishing industry green or GiftGreen India proving a sustainable option for those who can’t thrift, sustainable organizations run by Indian women are showing that in India, organizations care about the planet.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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