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ITC Expands Green Temple Waste-to-Resource Efforts Across Seven States
ITC is helping temples and communities handle waste more carefully.
Its Green Temples programme now works with more than 2,300 places of worship.
People are encouraged to separate wet waste, dry waste and flowers at the source.
Flowers can be processed into useful products, while plastic can be sent for recycling.
Some temples turn food and other organic waste into biogas and compost.
ITC says participating temples manage more than 90% of collected materials through recycling or reuse systems.
The company also runs waste programmes that serve millions of households.
These efforts are intended to support cleaner communities and the Swachh Bharat Mission.
ITC’s Green Temples initiative has grown from three pilot temples to more than 2,300 places of worship across seven Indian states.
The programme promotes source segregation, floral-waste recovery, plastic recycling, composting and biogas production.
Participating temples manage more than 90% of collected materials through closed-loop systems, according to ITC.
Under Mission Sunehra Kal, ITC’s waste programmes reached 8.23 million households cumulatively across 35 districts in 14 states.
During FY 2025-26, ITC collected 6.87 lakh metric tonnes of waste, with about 86% managed through composting, recycling and other systems.
- Who
- ITC Limited, working with temples, communities, waste collectors, local institutions and government bodies.
- What
- ITC is expanding integrated waste segregation, recycling, composting and biogas systems through its Green Temples and wider community programmes.
- Where
- More than 2,300 places of worship across Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana, along with communities in 14 states.
- When
- The expansion is reported in connection with Swachh Bharat Diwas; cited community figures cover FY 2025-26 and the Swachhata Hi Seva 2026 campaign.
- Why
- To promote source segregation, resource recovery, circular waste management and cleaner communities in support of the Swachh Bharat Mission.
Key facts
- Green Temples reach
- More than 2,300 places of worship across seven states
- Programme model
- A hub-and-spoke system for segregation, processing and resource recovery
- Material management
- Participating temples manage more than 90% of collected materials through closed-loop systems
- Household coverage
- Mission Sunehra Kal cumulatively covers 8.23 million households
- FY 2025-26 waste collection
- More than 6.87 lakh metric tonnes
- FY 2025-26 waste outcomes
- About 4.23 lakh metric tonnes of wet waste was composted and 1.65 lakh metric tonnes of dry waste was recycled
- Waste collectors
- ITC’s programmes have covered 23,000 waste collectors through its well-being initiative
Quotes
Prabhakar Lingareddy
Executive Vice President and Head of Social Investments at ITC Limited
“The journey to circularity starts with a simple yet powerful shift in mindset, where not only the need to manage waste responsibly gets embedded at a citizen and household level, but also that waste can be reimagined as a valuable resource.”
deccanchronicle.com
Sources
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