Made from crop waste for the food service and healthcare sectors
Expo Live..Tableware and packaging..100% natural
Rhea Singhal: "When I moved from London to Delhi, I was stunned to see piles of plastic garbage on street corners."
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Ecoware aims to address India's two critical environmental problems, air pollution and plastic pollution, by manufacturing sustainable packaging products. Its portfolio includes more than 30 single-use products that are commercially viable for the food service sectors. health care, cutlery, takeaway boxes, and medical care containers.
According to the company whose project qualified for the “Expo Live” program of “Expo 2020 Dubai”, which supports projects that address the most pressing and most impactful issues in human life, all of these products are made from 100% biodegradable natural materials, and are made from abundantly available agricultural residues. Mainly in India.
Founded in 2009, the company offers 100% natural and biodegradable tableware and packaging, and the company's business model contributes to preserving the environment and the circular economy, with the aim of reducing the use of single-use plastics that end up in landfills, and products can degrade The company biologically in the soil within 90 days without the need to involve any commercial facility for fertilization.
Ecoware founder and CEO Riya Mazumdar Singhal said: “The company supports environmental sustainability and engages the community to be part of the solution. Smaller towns and cities, and expanding our reach.” She added: “This will make a real difference in India, where it is common to see streets littered with rubbish, clogged drains, and overflowing landfills, and by making waste diversion we help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from burning. straw, while creating jobs and opportunities for disadvantaged communities.”
“I moved to Delhi from London in 2009, where I worked as a sales representative for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, and during my time at the company I studied a lot of clinical research linking plastics to packaging materials,” Riya said of her interest in sustainable packaging. food and the diseases it causes”, noting that when she moved to Delhi, she was stunned to see piles of plastic garbage on street corners, and also noticed how people were talking about healthy, fresh or organic food, but they ignored the eco-friendly packages they were eating from the food itself, Pointing out that the company was established to meet each of these challenges.
It confirms that all of the company's products are made from the waste of common agricultural crops, such as sugar cane and wheat, to produce disposable plates, cups and cutlery. collective in unspeakable damage to the environment, and negatively affect human health.
Raya notes that of the total 62 million tons of waste produced in 2015, nearly 50% was dumped into landfills without treatment, and plastic constitutes most of this untreated waste by virtue of being a cheap and common material.
She explains that the company's products do not contaminate foods, unlike traditional plastic and Styrofoam, and that its set of cutlery is biodegradable and compostable, so the company's products have been certified by the US Department of Agriculture, moreover, the company's cutlery set maintains a temperature It ranges between -20 and 180 degrees Celsius, which simply means that it can be used in the freezer, refrigerator, microwave and oven.
• 2010 The year the company built its first manufacturing facility in India.
better future
Projects under the Expo Live program are looking for solutions across 14 different sectors, including innovators who help meet the challenges enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals, which include 17 global goals designed to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.
Each project selected to join the program receives funding of up to 367,000 dirhams ($100,000), in addition to contributing to the project's promotion.
the problem
India is one of the most polluted countries with plastic waste, with air pollution also causing the death of one in eight people in the country.
The solution
Converting unnecessary crop residues into commercially viable consumer packaging products.
sector
Waste management.
the site
- India.