Why are hotel shampoo, soap, and lotion bottles always so tiny? Here’s the real reason

The miniature format creates more individual packaging, which has made traditional hotel toiletries part of the wider conversation around plastic and waste. That is why some hotels have switched to refillable dispensers or larger containers that remain in the bathroom. These systems reduce the need to provide a separate miniature bottle for every guest. So,…

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Nepali family had begun funeral rituals for 64-year-old Chandrika Shrestha thinking she has died in the devastating floods; then she was found buried under mud but alive on the 11th day

Chandrika was found alive, partly trapped in mud on the fourth floor of a house that had been buried by the August 26 floods. For eight days, Chandrika Shrestha’s family searched for her after a devastating flood swept through Nepal’s Bhotekoshi river basin. There was no sign of the 64-year-old woman. Her house had been…

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In this 600-year-old Rajasthan temple, a Muslim family that came from Sindh has been serving a Hindu goddess for 14 generations: The story of Jodhpur’s Bagoria Mataji Mandir

Bagoria Mataji Mandir is located in Bagoria village, in the Bhopalgarh tehsil of Jodhpur. In Rajasthan’s Bhopalgarh, there is a temple where the person performing the rituals is not a Hindu priest. For generations, a Muslim family has been serving Bagoria Mata (a local deity), performing the temple’s rituals while continuing to follow Islam and…

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Tenith Adithyaa: Meet Tenith Adithyaa: The 15-year-old who built the ‘Banana Leaf Technology’ that converts discarded leaves into bowls and plates at just Rs. 0.94. per leaf as an alternative to plastic

Photo: tenithadithyaa.com While most teenagers are busy with video games or engrossed in books preparing for board examinations, a young innovator from Tamil Nadu seems to have solved a problem the whole planet is struggling with: plastic waste.Tenith Adithyaa spent his childhood not on a PlayStation but in a home lab, brimming with ideas, and…

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