Cotton tote bags, once hailed as the solution to reduce pollution from single-use plastic bags, are not as environmentally-friendly as brands claim due to overproduction, according to a report.

KARACHI: Cotton and cotton products contribute more than 12 percent to the gross domestic products and 57 percent to the foreign exchange earnings of the country. Pakistan is the fifth largest ...

The firm founded by Aruna Rao (inset) manufactures cotton cloth bags “The basic idea was to create in fabric whatever was made of plastic,” she said. Set up in July 2016, Bellikirana Creations ...

Krishnan Subramanian and Gowri R G started ‘The Yellow Bag’ with a mission to create economic and practical alternate products to replace use-and-throw products Plastic, many say, is more of a bane ...

With India drowning in a sea of plastic, how does one #UnplasticIndia? Siddharth Bajoria is working towards this ambitious mission with his startup Re-bag, a Bengaluru-based eco-friendly bag ...