Collecting waste, creating beauty

It was the 1990s, and Dharamshala’s waste problem was increasing day by day. Tourists and increasing number of refugees, and a lack of a proper green waste disposal system meant that waste was not properly disposed of. One day in 1994, a missive came to the Tibetan Settlement Office (TSO) in Dharamshala, from none other than HH The Dalai Lama: They were to solve the burgeoning waste problem.