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Our Solution

Green Haathi to Make Earth Green

Tagline

Mitigate waste by conversion into raw material at generation site, which also inculcate a sense of accountability.

Pitch us on your solution

Huge waste produced form cities have created enormous pressure on environment. In existing post-processing mechanism only 30% of the collected waste gets recycled and remaining 70% send to dumping site. This is due the sever mixing of different types of waste. This has a challenge of waste transportation and scarcity of raw material.

Systematic analysis shows that a large proportion of unprocessed waste consists of disposal plate waste and thin plastic.

In present solution a machine with good aesthetic view and processing capability can be installed near food outlet/public venue for processing food outlet waste. Machine reduces the waste volume and converts into raw material at waste generation site.

This make significant improvement in life of waste picker as reduced volume waste can be easily handle and also selling of recycled raw material form waste will improve their economic condition.

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What is the problem you are solving?

Waste management is among of the major challenges, having sever impact on environment and health. The genesis of huge quantity of solid waste to dump in land fill sites is lies in the method used for waste segregated. The different types of material in collected waste get mixed to the level that it can’t separate out and recycle with economic advantage.

In general methodology, the municipal waste collected from various sources is transported to a processing unit. In processing unit, the material which can be recycled get separate out and remaining send for landfill site. It has been observed that even after segregation of waste, a major portion waste, includes disposal plates, packaging and wet organic material is remains unprocessed and sent for dumping. The proposed solution give multiple advantages in form of raw material, reduced transportation, economic support for waste pickers and also inculcate a sense of accountability in waste producer.

Who are you serving?

In conventional waste processing method, waste is collected and transported to processing unit. In processing unit, the manual or machine based segregation is being performed.

The solution target to minimize this waste, who otherwise send for dumping. Major beneficiary of the proposed solution are waste pickers. It will be easy for them to pick reduced volume waste and also sell produced raw material for economical advantage.

The present model is to establish for 50 food outlets, each having per
day 400-600 customers. The estimated waste generation per day is 1.5-2
tonnes.

What is your solution?

In the proposed solution is based on a new technology, called Green Haathi, to process and segregate the waste at the generation site. Initial design is made for food outlet waste.

In this the customers at food outlets feed the used food packaging to the machine. The customers feed of used packaging to the machine to perform his/her duty to dispose of the waste created by his activity. To invoke more participation some reward mechanism has also been made.The food packaging processed to segregate into ease disposable raw products. The raw material provide an economical and eco-friendly option for further provide the finished product. The power input require for this system is driven from solar energy.

Select only the most relevant.

Increase production of renewable and recyclable raw materials for products and packaging
Enable recovery and recycling of complex products

Where is your solution team headquartered?

Jalandhar, Punjab, India

Our solution's stage of development:

Prototype

More about your solution

Select one of the below:

New technology

Describe what makes your solution innovative.

We provide a tech-driven solution to handle the waste, which is generally ignore to process in conventional method of waste management. In this the target waste is the material that has major proportion in left over waste, after preliminary segregation.

The processing of waste at its generation site also helps waste producer to aware the challenge in waste processing and opportunity to contribute in mitigating waste.

The technology provide minimize the volume of waste, which also decrease transportation led emission and cost.

The output of machine provides the raw material, which otherwise buried in landfill site. The proposed technology is driven on the non-conventional energy sources and also improves the aesthetic look of the venue.

Describe the core technology that your solution utilizes.

In the present solution is based on a new technology, named green Haathi.

It process and segregate the waste at the generation site.The processing perform in following steps:

Initially the customers at food outlets feed the used food packaging to the machine.
The food packaging processed to segregate into ease disposable raw material.
The produced raw material provides option for further use in preparation of finished product

Process flow chart

The machine take power form the solar energy and utilize IoT for regularly inform about the level of various input parameter. To maximize the solar energy reception in limited space of the machine, AI & machine learning approach is also incorporate in present model

Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Internet of Things
Indigenous Knowledge
Social Networks

Why do you expect your solution to address the problem?

The proposed solution is :

Easy to use
Economical
User friendly
Minimize transportation

Select the key characteristics of the population your solution serves.

Women & Girls
Peri-Urban Residents
Very Poor/Poor
Low-Income
Refugees/Internally Displaced Persons

In which countries do you currently operate?

India
South Africa
Thailand

In which countries will you be operating within the next year?

India
South Africa
Thailand

How many people are you currently serving with your solution? How many will you be serving in one year? How about in five years?

The solution is in initial stage and working with about fifty food outlets. The each outlet have almost 400-500 footfalls.

In first year we expect to directly work with 20-25 waste pickers and provide training for them. The total serving for a year is expected to more than 1 million food waste disposal. By year five, we expected to have operated in 3 countries with 100 team members.

What are your goals within the next year and within the next five years?

The goals for next year:

Identify the resources for expansion
Establish good connections with waste pickers, food outlet management and consumers.
Create awareness to minimize waste for dumping sites

Goals for next five year:

Prepare machine to handle other type of waste
Operator in multiple place and serve for more than 10 million.
Reduce the waste from food outlet and other sources.

What are the barriers that currently exist for you to accomplish your goals for the next year and for the next five years?

Barriers for next year

Unawareness for responsibility of waste producer
Tendency of randomly parking of waste
Reluctant to invest for funding in such technology as

Expected barriers for next years

Success of the operation is achieve only when it is install in large number
Education and personal grooming of informal waste pickers for satisfactory handle technology.
Lack of awareness of waste producer for involve in mitigating the produced waste, need a awaken call from novel platform (MIT).

How are you planning to overcome these barriers?

Following steps are being taken to overcome mentioned barriers:

Regular classes and enrollment of waste pickers to get least primary education.
Testing and installment of Green Haathi to have display advantage mitigating waste at generation site.
Establish connection with large platform (MIT SOLVE, Govt., MNC) to pitch the solution.

About your team

Your business model & funding

Partnership potential

Why are you applying to Solve?

We are excited to join novel teams, who are involved in waste mitigation. The Solve’s global platform provides an opportunity to connect wider network and learn how to improve the existing method. It shows the available resources and access for scaling goals. Solve’s platform provide broader excess of technical/financial/strategic resources.

What types of connections and partnerships would be most catalytic for your solution?

Business model
Technology
Funding and revenue model

If you selected Other, please explain here.

NA

With what organizations would you like to partner, and how would you like to partner with them?

Waste Connections .inc
Texas Instruments
Waste processing equipment manufacture

If you would like to apply for the AI Innovations Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution. If you are not already using AI in your solution, explain why it is necessary for your solution to be successful and how you plan to incorporate it.

Yes,

In present technology, AI is used for optimizing inputs.The machine is prepared by taking account of least energy consumption as it totally rely on solar energy source.

If you would like to apply for the GM Prize on Circular Economy, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution.

Yes,

As GM prize for the solutions that help communities shift towards a more circular economy through zero waste. In proposed solution, the waste leftover after the processing in conventional waste management method is targeted. The present solution pitch for zero waste.

If you would like to apply for the Innovation for Women Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution.

Yes,

The present solution is directly linked for improvement in the women and girls involve in the waste processing. At present, the large proportion of rural women are working in waste processing unit as it provide them employment option near to their home.

If you would like to apply for the Innospark Ventures Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution. If your solution utilizes data, describe how you will ensure that the data is sourced, maintained, and used ethically and responsibly.

No