The first Philips Solar Light Hub has just been launched in India by Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), and the company claims that over 100 solar lighting products are on display in this exclusive retail store aimed at encouraging a wider use of solar lighting products. Customers can experience firsthand an extensive range of solar lighting solutions…
The 16th edition of Myntra’s biannual sale – which they call end-of-reason sale (EORS) – in June this year apparently had about 21 million products purchased by 5 million shoppers across the country. The event provided a sale window to about 5,000 brands. Among the most popular categories during the sale were women’s westernwear, men’s…
Boon (formerly Swajal) Founded by Dr Vibha Tripathi, Boon is a multi-award-winning, IoT-enabled water-purification solutions provider and enables access to clean water to people across the socio-economic spectrum.. The company offers mineralised purified water with ultrafiltration and RO for as low as 25 paise per litre. This enables pocket-friendly access to clean water through point-of-use…
The Latitude 5000 series features the world’s most innovative use of sustainable materials, the company claims in a press release shared with CauseBecause. Take a look: “A laptop lid made from 71% recyclable and renewable materials including tree-based bioplastic upcycled from the paper-making industry (21%), reclaimed carbon fibre (20%) and post-consumer recycled plastic (30%). By…
The Mumbai-based mall has received the LEED V4.1 O+M (Operations and Maintenance) platinum certification from India’s Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI), which is part of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) that provides independent oversight of professional credentialing and project certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system. Oberoi…
The ‘Plant a Tree’ initiative by the plant-based nutrition brand begins in January 2022 and will be an ongoing programme. Plix has pledged to plant a tree (seed) for every single purchase made by its customers. The company has earmarked a land parcel in Maharashtra to plant the saplings. Founded in 2019 by Rishubh…
The company’s new collection Reuso is a high-performance modular carpet tile and environmentally friendly, as per their official press release. It is designed to ‘make use of every square inch of available product in order to decrease waste.’ The brand’s eco-friendly carpets, which have been developed and tested for over 17 years, have recycled over…
The fashion and lifestyle e-commerce company has partnered with Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), a global non-profit organisation heading the largest cotton sustainability programme in the world, to source cotton for its in-house brands. To begin with, Myntra will focus on sourcing 10% of its cotton requirements from BCI, and in the next five to seven…
As a first major step in this direction, the company is removing outer paper cartons from its flagship Ayurvedic toothpaste brand Dabur Red Paste. The carton-free, ecofriendly packaging is being rolled out in key modern trade outlets in a joint initiative with Reliance Retail. In addition, the company is also rolling out an outer paper…
The company claims that it is ‘using 1 glass of water to create 1 pair of jeans’, having achieved this feat through improvised processes and technology. To put this in some perspective, traditionally a pair of jeans requires 70 litres of water to complete the washing and finishing process. One of India’s first indigenously manufactured…
