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A battle against plastic
Updated On: 30 November, 2014 03:16 AM IST | | Anu Prabhakar
Siblings Yash and Sachi Maniar offer products made out of sugarcane fibre as an alternative to plastic through their project, Shunya Alternatives

The high point of our talk with Yash Maniar comes right in the middle, when the conversation veers towards toothbrushes. “The dentist asks us to change our toothbrush once in three months,” points out Yash, while trying to explain the mind-boggling amount of waste that human beings produce. “So that is four toothbrushes per person, every year. Multiply that with the number of people who do this,” he adds, thus effectively making his point.

Yash and Sachi Maniar
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