‘We wanted to tackle a problem people can’t see’: Meet the Indian teen trio who turned tamarind waste into an award-winning idea to remove microplastics from water
Vivaan Chhawchharia, Ariana Agarwal and Avyana Mehta won The Earth Prize 2026 for their microplastic-removal innovation. What if something as ordinary as a discarded tamarind seed could help tackle one of the world’s less visible pollution problems? For three Indian teenagers, that question became the starting point for an environmental innovation that has now earned…