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Button production in Bengaluru

Initiative pushes reset button on waste

An $11 million initiative has led to the recycling of plastics collected by India’s waste pickers into 152 million buttons. The philanthropic H&M Foundation launched the Saamuhika Shakti initiative in 2020 to address the gaps in the system that keep Bengaluru waste pickers in poverty and exclusion. Buttons partly made from the plastics waste are…

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