Trashonomics: How a crow can teach school kids to reduce waste footprint

A new booklet in Bengaluru may get children to transform how India manages solid waste, just as they once shunned crackers

If schoolchildren led the way with crackers, could they also lead the way with a better approach to solid waste management? That is the thought behind ‘Trashonomics’, an easy-to-read and illustrated booklet that explains, through the device of a crow — a bird which wastes nothing — how children can reduce their waste footprint.
 
Conceived by Bengaluru-based Archana Prasad Kashyap and Claire Rao, the idea is to guide and prod children into adopting good practices as a way of life that will last into adulthood.
 
They feel that, had such a book been around when they were growing