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Issue No: 376, November 2020

Plastic Alchemy

Satya working with a fishing netOn World Ocean Day in June, a dolphin washed up on to Sri Ma beach. “It was a young dolphin that had not died a natural death, possibly related to pollution, or to swallowed plastic,” says Satya Agrawal, a teacher in NESS school, who was catalysed by this event to start collecting waste on the beach. “There is trash everywhere, but it hurts most on the beach because it causes a lot of harm to sea life.”Zero Waste Beach is an initiative that collects trash from Auroville’s beaches. The collected garbage is segregated, and the plastic waste is alchemically transformed into new items.The team hopes this could be a freely replicable model for the up-cycling and re-cycling of trash in rural India.The project started in June at the height of the lockdown, with different groups coming together to clean beach trash, including numerous guests stranded in Auroville since March. They felt Covid time was an opportunity to look afresh at existing social issues, ...
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Issue No. 376, November 2020

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  • Too much bureaucracy?
  • The need to specify minimum conditions
  • How is Auroville doing?
  • Fostering goodwill towards the city
  • Let’s Talk Trash
  • Anitya: from vision to reality
  • Red feet: Growing up in Auroville
  • Which mask do you wear?
  • Plastic Alchemy
  • New Books: 50 More Poems from Auroville; Radicle Network
  • Resurrected in nature
  • Passings: Narayanaswamy Gopal; Akash Nandkumar
  • U.F.O. Unidentified Found Objects

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