Building Better Cities
One Proven Solution at a Time.
Discover implementation stories, practical roadmaps and proven solutions that help cities reduce waste and build circular systems.
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For every problem, we have stories of how people solved it. We have roadmaps of how the solutions can be implemented.
If you want to solve a problem, dive into our repository, sorted based on the problems.
Featured Implementation Stories
School Nirmalya Composting Project
How the school garden is blossoming on the nirmalya brought by the students from home
A Business of Sustainability
How this business has been preventing disposables and waste by renting reusables since 1955
A Business of Sustainability
How this food court has been discouraging single-use condiment sachets
India’s Fastest-Growing Zero-Waste City Movement
India’s fastest-growing zero-waste city movement — empowering 3,00,000+ students in Pune to turn off the tap on waste.
Mission City Chakra - School
Our Impact So Far
More than 1 lakh students through 200 schools have implemented
Mission City Chakra's
No-Plastic - Tiffin Boxes, Water Bottles Textbook Covers
Appeal
A Replicable Model for Indian Cities
Mission City Chakra Campaigns
Pune Sustainability Map | Launched 5th June 2026
Climate action is not somewhere else. It is already happening in Pune. The Pune Sustainability Map simply helps us find it.
WHAT WE DO
A Structured, Scalable Path to Zero-Waste City
Built on systems thinking, circular economy principles, and institutional leadership.
Vision:
A Zero-Waste Pune City
Mission:
We are on a mission to turn off the tap on waste in the city by empowering intermediate policymakers to implement waste reduction measures at a scale
WHY THIS WORKS
A Systems Approach: Tackling Root causes, Not Symptoms
Upstream Intervention
Children as Policy Multipliers
Institutional Leverage
Circular Design
Join Pune’s Zero-Waste Transformation
Simple policies. Big impact. Cleaner futures for our children.