Plastic rubbish

India has a lot of it. It is not surprising. Its development is staggering.
So it is totally heart warming when initiatives are started often around a kitchen table and become important messengers of conservation and recycling.A group of women decided that they wanted an alternative to the plastic bag. So they started making cloth bags in their kitchens over a cup of tea.
That is how SAMBHAV was created. The housewives reckoned that a green grocer may use over 100 plastic bags a day which immediately get thrown out into the environment. Sambhav is now expanding rapidly, the demand for cloth bags is increasing and these women who started this small but important task from their kitchens are now selling to corporate clients and doing the environment a favour in the process.

This is from a similar initiative in Himachal Pradesh.