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Garbage Free India
Kolkata
Garbage Free India addresses the climate crisis through the waste lens. Our climate action programs with varied stakeholders focus on building awareness, providing structural support and enabling citizen action. With an end goal to reduce the waste that goes to the landfill and promote sustainability, we continue to work to Revive and Restore the lost colours of nature.
Vision: To Restore our ‘natural heritage’ and drive ‘climate action’.
Mission: Empower individuals & communities with the proper knowledge, tools and support to initiate responsible production, consumption and waste management journey.
Duration of Support
Partner since 2023
SVP Lead Partners
Pauline Laravoire, Richa Dalmia, Adarsh Tulshan, Avanti M. Jhunjhunwala
Duration of Support
Partner since 2023
SVP Lead Partners
Pauline Laravoire, Richa Dalmia, Adarsh Tulshan, Avanti M. Jhunjhunwala
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Home » Our Investees » Garbage Free India
Garbage Free India
Kolkata
Garbage Free India addresses the climate crisis through the waste lens. Our climate action programs with varied stakeholders focus on building awareness, providing structural support and enabling citizen action. With an end goal to reduce the waste that goes to the landfill and promote sustainability, we continue to work to Revive and Restore the lost colours of nature.
Vision: To Restore our ‘natural heritage’ and drive ‘climate action’.
Mission: Empower individuals & communities with the proper knowledge, tools and support to initiate responsible production, consumption and waste management journey.
Duration of Support
Partner since 2023
SVP Lead Partners
Pauline Laravoire, Richa Dalmia, Adarsh Tulshan, Avanti M. Jhunjhunwala
SVP-GFI Partnership
Under the SVP-GFI partnership, we will engage Kolktan communities and institutions under the ‘My Para My Pride’ campaign theme to beautify Kolkata through a source segregation program. Citizens will learn to know, own and manage their waste effectively. We will set up systems for ethical waste disposal of organic and dry waste and prevent it from entering landfills.
Along with this program, we will be instilling early environmental education among school children through the Dharti Saathi Program. This program is an engaging awareness-to-action program that elicits pro-environmental behaviour change in children and youth.
Story of success
Over the years, GFI’s vision has evolved from making India litter-free to restoring our ‘natural heritage’ and driving ‘climate action’. GFI has undertaken action oriented initiatives such as clean up drives, awareness to action and community development campaigns and programs in metro cities and peri-urban areas. They partnered with NDTV-Dettol Banega Swacch India to implement door-to-door segregation awareness campaigns. GFI’s Milk Bag Project collaboration has collectively sent 9336 kgs of milk bags for recycling. GFI’s waste diversion programs have safely disposed of or composted 183250 kgs of organic, dry and E-waste.
The Dharti Saathi program has provided environmental learning to over 500 students and enabled behaviour change in the learners.
The Dharti Sakhi program has trained 1392 menstruators on sustainable menstrual hygiene and potentially prevented 27000 numbers of sanitary pads from entering the landfills by providing reusable menstrual kits.