From landfills to living spaces: Kolkata's circular economy changemakers

KOLKATA: In a city where old buildings, markets and memories are constantly being remade, a quiet group of Kolkata changemakers is proving that waste need not be the end of a material’s journey.

They are architects, educators, entrepreneurs and recyclers who see discarded glass, plastic, electronics, agricultural residue and construction scrap not as rubbish, but as resources waiting for imagination.