Circular Economy – India's Story

From 75 Investor Rejections to ₹4.5 Crore Revenue: How Re-Verse Is Turning Textile Waste Into Sustainable Building Materials

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A Waste Problem That Inspired a Business Idea India’s textile industry produces enormous amounts of fabric waste every year. Much of this material is discarded, sent to landfills, or burned, creating environmental challenges and wasting resources that could have another use. For Laksh Sharma and Deep Sanghani, this problem presented an opportunity to rethink how…

From Paddy Straw to ₹2.5 Crore Turnover: Two IIT Alumni Build a Sustainable Packaging Business

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What if agricultural waste could become a solution to plastic pollution? Anand Bodh and Arpit Dhupar, two IIT graduates, turned this idea into Dharaksha Ecosolutions, a startup that transforms paddy straw (parali) into biodegradable packaging material. Here’s what makes their innovation special: Converts agricultural waste into an alternative to thermocol packaging. Uses mushroom mycelium, a…