Opthalmologist and Founder of Why Waste Wednesdays Foundation, Dr Ruby Makhija’s perseverance to promote environment friendly waste disposal at her Navjeevan Vihar colony resulted in zero waste being generated from the colony for the last 8 years.

Her efforts prove that with a disciplined approach to mindset building and monitoring of behaviour, an entire community can go from mindless consumption of resources to its mindful usage.

Episode Highlights:

1. How a car stealing incident ledbecoming the RWA of Navjeevan Vihar

2. Positivity, breaking boundaries and setting new trends

3. Why Waste management is actually behavioral change

4. Her personal growth in this journey

5. How to nurture the right behavioural change in stakeholders for zero waste management

6. Why she started Why Waste Wednesdays and what it does

7. How children can be part of the movement against Single Use Plastic

8. Recycling of religious discards

9. Impact of using recycled paper and other recycled materials

10. Reduce Reuse Recycle- Which has the maximum impact?

11. Can one person's efforts make a difference?

12. Sanitary incinerators - a game changer!

13. Spitting and littering on the road - The FINAL solution discovered!

14. Praise for Shri Indrajit Singh IAS, Lucknow

15. India's 'Swatch Sarvekshan'- world's biggest behavioral change exercise

16. Segregation and Reduction- keys to speed up our goal!

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