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Dr. Ruby Makhija

Celebrate: The Podcast

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Episode  ·  50:19  ·  Feb 26, 2026

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Welcome To Celebrate The Podcast Season Two Flip The ScriptEpisode 09: It’s True! We Can Live A Zero Waste Life ft Dr. Ruby MakhijaOpthalmologist and Founder of Why Waste Wednesdays Foundation, Dr Ruby Makhija’s perseverance to promote environment friendly waste disposal at her Navjeevan Vihar colony resulted in zero waste being generated from the colony for the last 8 years. Her efforts prove that with a disciplined approach to mindset building and monitoring of behaviour, an entire community can go from mindless consumption of resources to its mindful usage.Episode Highlights:1. How a car stealing incident ledbecoming the RWA of Navjeevan Vihar2. Positivity, breaking boundaries and setting new trends3. Why Waste management is actually behavioral change4. Her personal growth in this journey5. How to nurture the right behavioural change in stakeholders for zero waste management6. Why she started Why Waste Wednesdays and what it does7. How children can be part of the movement against Single Use Plastic8. Recycling of religious discards 9. Impact of using recycled paper and other recycled materials10. Reduce Reuse Recycle- Which has the maximum impact?11. Can one person's efforts make a difference?12. Sanitary incinerators - a game changer!13. Spitting and littering on the road - The FINAL solution discovered!14. Praise for Shri Indrajit Singh IAS, Lucknow15. India's 'Swatch Sarvekshan'- world's biggest behavioral change exercise16. Segregation and Reduction- keys to speed up our goal!Connect with Dr Ruby Makhija & Why Waste Wednesdays Foundation Here:Website Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

50m 19s  ·  Feb 26, 2026

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