Driven by a desire to combat plastic pollution, brothers Vikash Kumar, an IIT postgraduate, and Rahul Vashukhi, a NIFT graduate, embarked on a journey that began with a homemade machine and a mission to collect discarded materials from their community.

They went door to door collecting people’s trash to gather raw materials. Despite facing ridicule for their “kabadiwala kaam” (ragpicker work), they persevered. The duo was determined to make a difference, and there was no turning back.

With no funding, the brothers engineered their own machines to process hard-to-recycle

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