Garbage to Garbology | Jabir Karat | TEDxYouth@Payyambalam

Jabir Karat is an Indian social entrepreneur who founded Green Worms, a waste-management enterprise based in the state of Kerala. Jabir, and the Green Worms team work on multiple projects to fulfil the Green Worms mission. This includes projects like dry-waste collection, waste-auditing, waste-literacy training, zero-waste events and sustainable product destruction. Jabir's novel initiative of ‘Zero Waste Events' has been widely recognized throughout the country, with more Indian event managers adopting it. Apart from this, he and his team have been instrumental in conducting several workshops and waste literacy programmes in educational institutions, disseminating their knowledge to students on the different types of waste, segregation, recycling and composting Jabir Karat is an Indian social entrepreneur who founded Green Worms, a waste-management enterprise based in the state of Kerala. Jabir, and the Green Worms team work on multiple projects to fulfil the Green Worms mission. This includes projects like dry-waste collection, waste-auditing, waste-literacy training, zero-waste events and sustainable product destruction. Jabir's novel initiative of ‘Zero Waste Events' has been widely recognized throughout the country, with more Indian event managers adopting it. Apart from this, he and his team have been instrumental in conducting several workshops and waste literacy programmes in educational institutions, disseminating their knowledge to students on the different types of waste, segregation, recycling and composting This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx