Alicia is a writer, photographer, and social entrepreneur specializing in sustainable travel, wildlife and nature conservation, and environmentally friendly agriculture and eating. She holds an M.S.

The first day of single-use plastic ban turned out to be a mixed bag. <p>The Kolkata Police had launched a special campaign to stop the use of single-use plastic since Thursday <br></p> KOLKATA: The ...

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit has urged Delhiites to stop using plastic bags and go for bags made with cloth and jute. Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit has urged Delhiites to stop using ...

What are the alternatives to the now-banned plastic bags, which have become an integral part of our lives? Reusable cloth and jute bags, says the Mysore City Corporation (MCC). After announcing that ...

Typically associated with the crude ‘gunny bag’ used in the bazaars of the Indian sub-continent, jute is now very much up-market with an amazing variety of fashionable products being turned out from ...

Two women’s self-help groups (SHGs) in Dakshina Kannada district will start manufacturing cloth and jute bags from the first week of March, K.N. Vijay Prakash, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ...

The cloth and jute bags which the district administration had been distributing to promote the ban on single-use plastic have been rejected as “substandard” and of “no use” by a majority of local ...