Alternative Reuse & Upcycling Foundation

We spend a lot of time at Anand Niketan Society in Kothrud just looking at stuff people throw away. My neighbor once told me that most of it could still be used. So we started Alternative Reuse & Upcycling Foundation out of Flat A-402. It’s not a big office or anything, just a space filled with scrap fabric, old wood, and plastic bits. We try to figure out how to make these things useful again. Sometimes it’s messy. Kothrud is a busy area, and being near Shivala means there's always something happening outside. We aren't experts with fancy degrees in environmental science, just people who hate seeing waste. People drop by with old bottles or broken chairs. We tinker with them. It takes a lot of trial and error. Some days nothing we make looks right, but that's just how it goes when you're working with junk. We have tools scattered around the room and some stacks of paper for notes. It's a bit cramped in here, especially when a big shipment of discarded material arrives. The floor is usually covered in sawdust or thread. We don't have a receptionist. If you come by, you'll probably just find one of us with glue on our hands. It's hard work and it doesn't always pay off immediately, but it feels better than doing nothing. We just keep at it, one piece of trash at a time, every single day until it gets dark outside.