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Deeya Panel Products has found a solution to tackle the plastic waste menace. With their unique technology, they convert multi-layer plastics, that cannot be conventionally recycled into low-cost and high quality building materials called Ricron Panels. The waste is sourced from multilayer film manufacturers, packaging and waste management companies, as well as scrap dealers. The collected waste is then carefully sorted, washed and ground to flakes based on their polymer compositions. Using t...



Carbon Masters India Private Limited has devised an innovative way for managing the organic waste by collecting and converting the waste into useful fuel. Carbon Masters collects the waste generated in their bio-CNG trucks from various bulk waste generating establishments such as IT parks, residential complexes and restaurants and then treats the waste anaerobically to produce methane gas and organic slurry. The gas is purified, compressed and bottled to form Carbonlites which is used as a su...



Chakr Shield – the technology developed by Chakr Innovation Private Limited is a retrofit solution that captures PM and helps combat air pollution. The device is installed over the exhaust pipe of the DG that captures the exhaust and cools it to cause agglomeration of the soot particles. These soot particles, which primarily consist of PM are then made to pass through contours and meshes and captured with up to 90% efficiency. The collected PM is used as a raw material for making inks. Chakr ...



livelihood, biowaste, food: An erstwhile educationist, 62-year-old Geeta Arunachalam has devised easy methods to use agricultural waste to cultivate and harvest one of the most expensive foods in the Indian market. “Essentially, stubble burning involves setting fire to the straw stubble and other agricultural waste that remains after harvesting the grains. However, instead of burning the waste, one can get rid of it by using it to grow mushrooms. In fact, oyster mushrooms, one of the lesser-k...



Bengaluru-based non-profit Swachha has come up with a solution that can convert discarded plastic waste and convert it into tiles and irrigation pipes. In association with the BBMP, Swachha has developed what they are calling ‘Re-Tile’—tiles which customers can use on pavements, as wall cladding tiles, apartment walkways and swimming pools because of their light weight. This is a project by the Eco Solutions arm of the non-profit. Swachha Re-Tile recycled floor tiles are made of recycled Poly...



Wheat stubble straws – low cost, eco-friendly alternative to plastic straws!! 7 Sister Crafts, Assam offer straw made using wheat stubble. These unique straws are made using agricultural waste and cost less than Re. 1/- and decompose within 6 months. The stubble from harvested wheat has a naturally hollow stem. The stubble collected from the field is cut in uniform sizes, boiled and then dried. The products are made by local artisans at their homes. This is a wonderful substitute for plastic...



Fireproof and waterproof Paper Homes using recycled paper!! Hexpressions, Jaipur build houses using walls made of recycled paper in 2 weeks. The houses are built using composite honeycomb sandwich panels. 1 sq. ft of panels can withstand up to 100 kgs of load. Each of the panels is constructed using strips of sturdy recycled paper which are folded in a hexagonal shape and arranged like cells. The hexagonal-shaped cells are then sandwiched between two panels made from plywood or cement fibrebo...



Paper Pen is nothing, but an old newspaper rolled around a refill and with little aesthetics, an instrument which is truly mightier than a sword and yet extraordinarily environmentally friendly. Unskilled women could roll these pens at home and earn decent livelihood making their and their children's future bright. The product is not just bringing greenery in their lives, but the seeds rolled in the paper continue to make the earth green even after the pen is used & thrown. de'haat is not jus...



For decades Goonj has been a go-to place for contributing any surplus household cloth material. With Green by Goonj brand of recycled products they ensure that nothing goes waste – un-wearable clothes, torn oversized jeans, old fabric, obsolete audiotapes, unused ties etc. Their team of women from different parts of rural India, present a special edition of contemporary products, showcasing their aesthetics, craftsmanship and design sense. Like Handbag, Mat, File Folders etc.



Two students, namely, Yash Bhatt and Arjun Thakkar, studying under GTU, were struck while attending a college workshop. The workshop assigned an activity to identify the societal problems. Yash observed issue of floral waste dumped by the temple and the locals made the river dirty and polluted. He and his fellow friend Arjun decided to address this issue and planned to recycle the organic stuff. After suffering a lot of struggle academically, financially, and socially, they started their work...



How do you learn about non-violence from waste materials? IITian-turned-toymaker Subid Ahimsa is the best person to answer the seemingly innocent question. Through making toys from ‘waste’ or low-cost/easily available materials, Subid is trying to spread the spirit of ‘ahimsa’. “Toys create happiness, the first gift to a child, the best next to care. I wish to spread the message of non-violence for a peaceful world,” he says. “I have chosen toys as good media to communicate this. It would be ...



"EWA, the Bengaluru based company, behind the beautiful plant pots which are upcycled exclusively from e-waste. Along with the connection to ‘e-waste’, EWA is also a term that translates to ‘continued life’ in Hebrew. The EWA logo, brightly imprinted on all their pots, shows a circuit in a circle, conveying the message that ‘What you give, comes back to you.’ The brain behind these is Bengaluru resident Sanjay Jangam, a Retired Commander of the Indian Navy. After meticulous research, Sanjay d...



Solecraft is a Textile & Tyre Upcycling Initiative. It is currently specializing in the breakdown of the denim & tyre waste, to upcycle it. The organization closely works with men and women from marginalized communities and fashion designers to transform old denims & tyre into beautiful and useful products. Once upcycled, the items are distributed for free to marginal school children in Jodhpur and the villages on the outskirts of the city with help of donations or sponsorships. The pilot pro...



Peepal waste managers is a team of a young environmentalists with a strong motto- ‘scientific way of waste management’. Hyderabad based Waste Management Company, focusing on well-differentiated technology to provide effective waste management systems. Peepal Waste Managers design, build, and operate customized waste management systems that generate additional benefits for its customers. They are helping people segregate their waste efficiently, upcycle it to power kitchens with biogas, cut do...



Deval Verma is an artist, who has been breaking all the stereotypes for eight years and continues to innovate with the objective of ‘taking trash, making treasure’. He transforms metal scrap into pieces of art that are inexplicably winsome. The 28-year-old makes exquisite artworks upcycled from scrap metal. A mechanical engineer and a product design post-graduate from MIT Pune fuse the ideology of design and art to create highly customized products/artefacts. Whenever Deval found time from sc...



Nashik’s Meena Patankar aims to do is break into a routine cycle and give newspapers a life of their own, after being discarded. The 58-year old has a creative solution – paper dolls to prevent adding more burden on the existing pile of garbage. Meena’s craft journey started when she was scrolling through social media trying to find something new to do, during which she came across a video on how to make a vase using paper waste. After watching a couple of videos online and some trials, Mrs P...



As a child, JA Radhika’s favorite TV program was the art and craft show, MAD. She did not miss a single episode and faithfully made whatever was shown on screen. “That is how I fell in love with the craft. I would spend hours making gifts for my classmates,” she recollects. Radhika had to discontinue her studies because of rare bone disease and has been homebound since then. But she started to immerse herself in craft again in 2017. “I watched a video on how to make a wall hanging out of upcy...



The team of Earth Tatva works to reduce mining for natural resources by up to 60% by recycling post-industrial fired ceramic waste into a useable ceramic material. The principle of the startup and its archaeology considers that ceramics do not biodegrade for centuries. The team of Earth Tatva aspires to achieve zero-waste manufacturing, adhering to the principles of the circular economy. Essentially, doing more and better with less. To achieve this, they procure post-industrial fired ceramic ...



"Silver Nut Tree, a venture that took birth from the love and passion for art and craft and concern for the environmental issues of this planet that we call home, is into creating one-of-its-kind unique handcrafted products. It started with a humble PET Plastic Bottle which showed the promise of becoming a treasure that no owner would want to throw away ending in our planets already bulging landfills and polluted oceans. The designers themselves realized that PET Plastic is just one among the...



rejuWATER® "Solar Sewage Treatment Plant is a natural soil-based ecosystem that bio converts the nutrients in sewage to plants using sunlight. Important parameters required in any treated water like "Dissolved Oxygen", "Nitrates" and Phosphates" are compiled to a very high level in our STP's. rejuWATER® is a modular STP and each module measures just 1 cubic meter that treats 3KLD of sewage. This makes it the least footprint (0.4 sqft/KLD) STP in the market today. Ours is the only STP (perhaps...



PadCare Labs has developed worlds 1st smokeless sanitary napkin disposal & recycling solution to solve unhygienic, pollution causing & silent issue of sanitary napkin disposal at source. PadCare Labs has developed patent pending innovation called saneco which works on principle of chemo-mechanical method. Saneco is centralized processing unit can handle 1000 pads in a day and provides 5D's- 5D's are Disinfection, Deodorization, Decolorization, Disintegration & Deactivation of Super absorbe...



HolyWaste is an initiative founded by Oorvi Sustainable Concepts (a social enterprise whose objective is to work on issues binding women and environment alike). HolyWaste recycles floral waste into value products by employing women from disadvantaged sections as its "Rejuvenators". HolyWaste has successfully brought into market its brand of handcrafted, charcoal free Incense, Paraben Free Soap, Nutrient rich all- Natural compost. Research and Development is in progress to bring out more produ...



Crapbin is a modern-day online Kabadiwala helps you to get rid of your scrap waste in the most convenient way possible across. Hyderabad and Secunderabad. We provide doorstep service to pick up the scrap waste which is generated on a daily basis. It started with a vision to make India a zero waste country, for this, we give last stage convenience for customers for disposing their dry waste easily hence diverting valuable scrap material from landfills and rivers to recycling and reuse. We bu...



Code Effort Private Limited provides an end-to-end solution to the problem of cigarette butts. Organization provides a complete PAN India system for collecting the cigarette waste with the help of volunteers, contract- based suppliers and corporates. The collected cigarette waste is processed/ recycled at the factory in Noida, U.P using the confidential chemical composition and machineries in the most environmentally responsible manner by trained staff. The recycled cigarette waste is used to...



Using zero electricity, ‘Shuddham’ works on the principle of gravity, where it repurposes water used in washrooms, by making it undergo a series of filtration procedures and then releases the recycled water from the machine’s lowermost segment. Source: https://www.thebetterindia.com/164520/water-filter-cost-eco-friendly-innovation-india-news/



The most commendable feature of the Plantable Paper is that it is completely made out of residual organic waste produced from cotton factories and is free from any wood pulp. Even the dyes used to give the vibrant hues to the paper are organic dyes like Indigo, Cochineal, Weld, and Cutch, making the paper completely safe and environment-friendly. In the paper-making process, first a homogenous pulp is prepared using the cotton shreds, binders, seeds, and resins, which is then flattened out on...



He once attended a meeting at KVK, Madurai and developed interest in recycling banana plant waste into an income venture programme. During 1998 he started taking fibre from banana pseudo stem after the harvest of banana fruits. He has mechanized fibre separating process and stabilized the production of banana fibre over the last 19 years based on his own experiments and failures. The banana rope is used for making products such as handbags, mat and small baskets etc. He was able to sell the b...



‘Jugnu’ is a low-cost solar bags made from plastic waste specially designed for kids who live in the non-electrified regions such as village and hilly areas. School kids are finding it difficult to travel on hilly rock terrain on high altitude consuming a lot of time. The kids have no other way but to take dangerous roads with steep curves and narrow lanes. So, the innovator came up with a brilliant idea of ‘solar bag concept’ in a bid to make the lives of kids simpler. Solar bags are a well-...



The waste generated from the growing number of units manufacturing PPE gowns poses a problem for disposal owing to its plastic content. It is in this context, that an idea of converting this waste into mattresses came into the innovative mind of Kochi based entrepreneur, Lakshmi Menon. She engaged local women, who had run out of jobs during the lockdown; to braid the waste material uniformly and tie them up into rolls to form a mattress called 'Shayya'. Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes...



This eco-friendly alternative translucent geopolymer concrete has many qualities to support its claim to be better than cement. The cement present in the concrete mixture has been partially replaced with Ground Granulated Blast-furnace Slag (GGBS), which is a waste product of the iron & steel industry. This solves waste-management problems associated with furnace slag, while reducing the carbon footprint of cement use.The concrete mixture also contains plastic optical fibers that provide the ...



The Unit is completely made from scrap materials. It can be wall mounted or placed on the table for dispensing the sanitizer. It consists of sanitizer dispensing unit and a wire connecting dispenser unit and pedal. The sanitizer (600 ml) is placed inside the 3” PVC pipe (300 mm height) which is provided with end cap and spring retention mechanism. The pedal is made from old MCB board and provided with spring. The unit dispense the sanitizer based on force of pedal operation. The cost of makin...



Two young brothers, Diptanshu Malviya and Mukul Malviya, from Sirohi, Rajasthan have developed a motorized device, which picks up littered pieces of wrappers, papers, pouches, etc and collects them in a storage bin. Snacking is something, which most of us like to indulge in. Wafers, chocolates, biscuits, fruit cake, water pouches, etc. are consumed and their wrappers strewed around. These have to be later picked up manually, which is laborious and time consuming. Presently there are no machin...



Incense sticks made from the bamboo are the major raw materials used in the Agarbatti industry. India is the largest producer of Incense stick in the world and it is mostly being manufactured by tribal people in interior part of North-Eastern states like (like Tripura, Assam, Mizoram etc) who make strips and sticks by conventional methods of using knives which is very tedious, time consuming and risky. Electricity operated high capacity machines are only suitable and affordable by industries ...



The innovation is a much needed solution for thousands of small scale retreading units spread across highways and towns of India, working in tiny workshops with few helpers and narrow operational margins. The innovator has manufactured and sold more than 100 units across the country till date. He has been provided with micro venture funding to the tune of five lakh rupees by National Innovation Foundation in 2007. This first version of this innovation was granted an Indian patent in 1989. Sub...



"Daily Dump’s offerings are based on the basic premise of customers as people, rather than as buyers of our products. Our strength lies in ● Being a design-led brand. Our products are known for their aesthetics, simplicity and good design. ● Being open to change - our products allow for customisation by the customers and therefore easier ownership and adoption ● Creating new paths, innovative and thought leadership. We believe and enjoy what we do so we were able to pioneer urban home compost...



HolyWaste is an initiative founded by Oorvi Sustainable Concepts (a social enterprise whose objective is to work on issues binding women and environment alike). HolyWaste recycles floral waste into value products by employing women from disadvantaged sections as its "Rejuvenators". HolyWaste has successfully brought into market its brand of handcrafted, charcoal free Incense, Paraben Free Soap, Nutrient rich all- Natural compost. Research and Development is in progress to bring out more produ...



"Addressing the deep-seated Faecal Sludge & Management challenges in India, WASH Institute, as part of its Research and Innovation program, conceptualised and designed an Onsite Faecal Sludge Treatment Technology called the Mobile septage Treatment Unit (MTU). The MTU is designed to work on the concept of solid-liquid separation, sludge thickening and effluent treatment process. While the liquid is separated from the solid, the effluent passes through the treatment process and disposes the tr...



The state of Assam has 30% forest cover which consists mainly of bamboo (Dendrocalamus strictus; Bambusa spp.). The common species found are Jati Bha, Bholuka Bah and Kahko nah . However, the bamboo plantations are fast depleting, leading to a rapid increase in its price. The natives of Assam consider the bamboo sacred. The people utilize nearly every part of the plant for various needs. It is common for households to grow a patch of bamboo which they use for the purpose of making mats, f...



Existing air compressor there are one / two cylinders. Air compressors costs more than Rs.15,000 maintenance costs is also very high. Using electricity units is high. Reconditioning the air compressor costs nearly a new compressor cost and the reconditioning is also not guaranteed. Simple and Small changes in the existing oil engine can make the oil engine to air compressor. Change in spring system (from big spring to small spring) . To release the air a whole in the nozzle attached wi...



Innovative products from worn out tyres Procedure for making spring: In olden days Sri.Selvaraj fired the wornout tyres and separated the strings.Smoke generated from the worn out tyres during firing pollutes the environment. The string lost its temper due to firing. It is a time consuming process also. Because of this only small output was obtained which in turn reduce his total income. Due to the above said reasons Sri . Selvaraj developed a new machine to separate from th...



1. Remove the leaf from stem. From palm trees every year palm leaf is cut. The stem (Leaf) are separated from the leaf for making match box. Should be broad and long. From one leaf of the tree approximately 100 match boxes can be made the cost of one leaf is between 50 paisa and one rupee in villages. The central portion of the palm leaf only are wide and hence they only be used. For making the outer of the matchbox. First we have to cut the wider portion of the palm leafs, and then the ce...



In this project, Ultrasonic irradiation is used to initiate the emulsion polymerization to form hydrogel through the generation of free radicals as well as the uniform distribution of clay across the hydrogel polymer matrix The developed hybrid system for the treatment of dye wastewater can be easily scaled up to industrial scale for the treatment of bulk volume of textile wastewater. It is due to its simplicity in design, less cost of material construction, low cost of operation and higher c...



"Focused towards solving the problem of human waste management with the help of technology in an effective manner"



"A sustainable environmental technology company that transforms waste into natural products by using nature inspired ideas"



"Pioneers the global green energy development & creating sustainable clean environment for all"



"A vibrant engineering solutions company focused on identifying, prospecting and promoting sustainable and environment friendly technologies to satiate the burgeoning demand for energy in India and in turn help in slowing and reversing climate change."



" Aspires to become a global leader in Power Conversion Design Services by adopting the relevant current technology, by establishing the state of the art lab infrastructure and developing design resources to develop products for global market"



"she adopted the technique of vermicomposting — the cultivation of worms to consume and decompose sewage waste. This forms the top-most layer of a bio-filter that lets the water pass through different layers of wood, sand and carbon, filtering the water in an eco-friendly manner. In final filtration stage the water is passed through a membrane, segregating contaminated water from clean, drinkable water."



"Srivastava designed the world’s first retrofit emission control device for diesel generators which emit large amounts of soot. The technology can capture over 90% of particulate matter emissions from the exhaust of diesel generators efficiently and right at the source, without causing any adverse impact on the diesel engine."



Brook and Blooms people have developed an interesting method of preparing fertiliser from this kind of floral waste of religious places. The method is effective for organic agriculture (Flower cultivation) as well. The company plays an important role in waste management and reduction of water pollution.



Most of the village population do not have access to safe and reliable toilets. A good toilet, together with a safe reliable water supply and the practice of good personal hygiene can do much to improve personal and family health and wellbeing. There is an urgent need for the construction of simple, low cost, affordable toilets that are easy to build and maintain and are relatively free of odours and flies. The compost is useful in the vegetable garden and can also be used for growing trees. ...



"Rudra Environmental Solutions, a subsidiary of Blue Planet Environmental Solutions, working to create valuable energy and material outputs from low-grade plastics was recognised as a key player in tackling the problem of plastic waste pollution in India."



"SKRAP is a startup that provides end-to-end waste management solutions for events and offices.From assessing the needs of the event, recommending zero-waste friendly and compostable wares to setting up and manning the entire infrastructure for waste disposal, SKRAP does it all."



"This Bangalore-based startup has a simple policy – “send zero waste to landfill.” Providing management and consultation services to bulk waste-generators, Saahas zero waste prevents 25 tonnes of waste from reaching the dump yard on a daily basis."



It is called that the necessity is the mother of inventions, people who faced difficulties, may tried to innovate that could reduce their difficulty. Dodhi Pathak has developed a working model of a hand pump that is suitable for lifting both underground water and pond water. Most of the part of the pump including the piston, valve, barrel, and handle is made from bamboo. Bamboo bicycle: He wanted to buy an old bicycle but could not able to do due to high cost. He decided to construct it throu...



"It collects disposed e-waste, treats it and recycles it into usable items. They also aim to provide green alternatives to electronic assessments by furthering policy changes."



"ExtraCarbon provides a market place for selling items that you would otherwise dispose of. ExtraCarbon treats and furbishes the item before selling it. "



After numerous trials he came up with a system for getting warm water by utilizing heat generated through exothermal reactions during decomposition of organic wastes. Water in the pipe line passing through a heap of organic wastes can be heated up to 60-70° C after a day. The amount of water that can be warmed up depends on size of the heap. He dedicated this innovation to his father and called it ‘Chandan-Biogeyser’. NIF has filed a patent for the technology in the innovator’s name.http://ni...



"It manufactures trash bags, kitchen towels, and tissue rolls made out of bamboo pulp and corn starch-derived polymers. Beco’s products are packaged in craft and recycled paper. "



"The container is air tight in design, and has a bigger inner volume to collect the plastic materials. The container has an outlet through which gases escapes from the container. These gases are allowed to pass through various filtering stages including a water filter and an electronic filter. At each filtering stage the gas leaves back certain amount of residue. The residue left back at each filtering stage is different in its chemical and physical nature. In the first stage of filter a tar ...



"Mechanized waste collector collects wastes by using a compressor and stores it in a separate bag. By using various filters waste materials are divided as dusts, plastics, food wastes, etc according with its various modes. Auto Waste Collector use a specially created 2 HP light waste petrol engine. We can control the power of machine according with the waste nature. Mechanized waste Collector is able to collect materials of 1 kg. Waste management is the most important problem in all countries...



The innovator lives in the sugarcane belt where the composting process took many months because of the large size of the organic feed. To bring down this time, it was felt necessary to reduce the sugarcane trash feed to smaller sizes by using this machine to crush it to sizes ranging from 2-20 mm.The sugar cane trash grinder, which can handle both dry and fresh sugarcane trash, has a safe feeding chute with rollers that take in the input and then it moves on to a heavy duty grinding drum powe...



Dwarka Prasad uses large specially designed shoes filled with thermocol, fitted to each foot, and oars filled with thermocol to walk on water using buoyancy principles. Use of lightweight thermocol gives the desired buoyancy. The shoes for walking on water consist of two floats made of thermocol, bonded to rexine sheet. This whole unit is attached to metal straps with back foot support. These two individual shoes are also tied to each other to prevent them from going too far apart beyond one?...



Attach a valve and a tap on the delivery pipe so that one can pump and store the water in the body and the outlet pipe. And after pumping enough water, one can go to the other side, unscrew the tap and drink water with as much flow as one can conveniently drink with the hands. With increasing water scarcity, saving every drop matters apart from increasing the convenience of using the tap.