A panel of 30 investors from 5 continents (such as Drawdown Fund, BMW Foundation, MaRS, Clean Energy Ventures, and Solar Impulse Foundation) nominated and reviewed tens of hundreds of companies to get to the top 50 companies GLOBALLY that are trying to solve the climate crisis in the best way possible.
TrashCon, a Bengaluru-based waste management firm, was nominated and awarded. The recognition is on a massive global scale and represents India in the list of countries where the top 50 WORLDWIDE come from released by Cleantech Group.
Nivedha RM is the founder and CEO of Trashcon Waste Management. “This just puts more and more responsibility on all of us at TrashCon to work harder to put an end to the crisis. Your love and support has gotten us so far and will push us further,” Nivedha stated.
Trashcon built a technology that can take any unsegregated trash and automatically segregate it into bio-waste and non-bio waste to an efficiency of upto 99.6% – Bio-waste is used as manure, and Bio-gas Non-biowaste is used to make oil, plastic roads, interlocking tiles, and much more. Trashcon has also created solutions to convert non-degradable waste to recycled sheets that can replace plywood which can be converted into tables, chairs, racks, and furniture, providing dignified jobs to thousands of ragpickers. Thus, creating a completely Zero Waste tomorrow where value is generated out of every bit of waste.
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