Meet our champions of innovation in Bioplastics, Industrial Waste Utilization and Carbon Capture.
127
Startup Applicants
21
Countries
9
finalists
Startup #1
INDONESIA
Converting multiple kind of unsorted waste into organic and inorganic high value materials
Startup #4
Replacing retail packaging with compostable plastics
INDIA
Startup #7
Composting FGD effluents
INDIA
Startup #2
100% home compostable materials as alternative to plastics
INDIA
Startup #5
Transforming effluent CO2 into carbonates and other valuable materials
USA
Startup #8
INDIA
Transforming plastic, industrial and demolition waste to sustainable composite building material
Startup #3
Upcycling waste into antibacterial or absorbent materials
LUXEMBOURG/ JAPAN
Startup #6
Innovative water soluble and biodegradable plastic
ISRAEL
Startup #9
Bamboo-based granules as alternative to plastic
INDIA
Judges
Our industry veterans are ready to apply their expertise,
helping us reliably determine why a given solution would work the best?
Satish Pai
Managing Director, Hindalco Industries Ltd.
Director, Board of Aditya Birla Management Corporation Pvt. Ltd
Chintan Vaishnav
Mission Director,
AIM, NITI AAYOG
Laura Teicher
Executive Director, FORGE
K Venkatesh
AVP Sustainability & Environment, Hindalco
Challenge Details
Satish Pai
Managing Director, Hindalco Industries Ltd.
Director, Board of Aditya Birla Management Corporation Pvt. Ltd
Chintan Vaishnav
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Manush Labs in partnership with Aditya Birla Groups’ Hindalco (the world’s largest Aluminium company), launched this program as an opportunity to ‘innovate to eliminate’ and aims to benefit humanity by catalyzing and empowering technological innovations in the domains of bioplastics, industrial waste utilization and carbon capture.
The program received startup applications from 21 countries.
After a month long selection process, 9 startups have been chosen for the finale round.