This Mumbai Man’s Simple Plastic-for-Food Idea Has Helped Serve 45000 Warm Meals

On a humid afternoon in Mumbai’s Bhandup, the smell of rain still lingers in the air. The lanes are busy, children weave through traffic, and in a quiet corner, a small queue begins to form — not outside a shop, but beside a simple setup where people hold plastic bottles in their hands, waiting for something far more valuable: a warm meal. A childhood memory turns into a mission For Shakti Yadav, this scene is deeply personal. Growing up in Bhandup, monsoons didn’t just bring rain — they brought flooded homes filled with sewage water. The cause was all too visible: plastic waste choking the...