Lakshmi Nilakantan

Contract editor and chemistry scholar

Lakshmi Nilakantan

India has some 246 million school-going children and if all of them just threw away one school shirt a year that would equate to 31,980 tonnes of non-wearable school shirts.

Rethinking school uniforms in India: Moving towards sustainability & responsible choices

Lakshmi Nilakantan

20 Mar 2026

4 min read

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