• Newsletters
  • Gift Membership
Logo Logo
Take Scroll With You Download the app to read our award-winning journalism on the go and stay up-to-date with our notifications.
Get the app Get the app
ANDROID iOS
  • Home
  • Common Ground
  • The India Fix
  • Eco India
  • The Latest
  • The Reel
  • Magazine
  • Video
  • Trending
    • Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
    • Fiction: A scheme to unearth the ‘lost’ Saraswati river becomes an act of Hindu nationalist pride
    • Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
    • ‘A dry future powered by the sun’: Solar water pumps are draining India’s groundwater reserves
    • Desolate landscape to tourist hub: How China is transforming Mount Everest
    • How Zohran Mamdani is busting the fake nostalgia of ‘Iran before the Islamic revolution’ memes
    • ‘Mistry’ review: New ‘Monk’ in a newish bottle
    • Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents
    • A new book asks what made Japan Westernise rapidly during the Meiji era in the late 19th century
    • Harsh Mander: The plunder and loot by private healthcare in India
    • Seven books by Ugandan scholar Mahmood Mamdani, father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani
    • Rush Hour: 3 arrested in Kolkata gangrape case, Trump hints at trade deal with India and more
  • Sections
    • Politics
    • Culture
    • India
    • World
    • Film and TV
    • Music
    • Books and Ideas
    • Business and Economy
    • Science and Technology
    • In Pictures
    • Announcements
    • Bookshop
    • The Field
    • Pulse
    • Elections 2024

Technological solutions

  • To rid the oceans of plastic, we need community-level initiatives more than high-tech solutions

    To rid the oceans of plastic, we need community-level initiatives more than high-tech solutions

    Rick Stafford, The Conversation
    · Jul 29, 2018 · 08:30 pm