Eco-friendly products to replace plastic
It is made of coconut palms, jackfruit leaves, arecanut fronds and hyacinth pulp Every year lakhs of saplings are being planted across Kerala, but it also often generates a huge volume of plastic waste. EichhoTech, a student startup based in SD College, Alappuzha has come up with a novel range of eco-friendly products made of locally available resources as a replacement for harmful plastic and PVC based nursery trays and pots. A team of researchers and students led by G. Nagendra Prabhu, Associate Professor and Principal Investigator of the Centre for Research on Aquatic Resources at SD Coll...