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Dec
Phool, India's "first biomaterial startup" was founded in 2017 by the dynamic engineering graduates duo Ankit Agarwal and Prateek Kumar. The Kanpur-based startup Phool which literally means flower has come up with an innovative solution to tackle the problem of the huge amount of floral waste that is daily produced at religious sites and dumped into rivers, posing danger to marine life and water quality in general. The process is quite simple, the company, with the help of local labourers, starts by collecting huge amounts of floral waste from the riverside of primarily three Indian cities. And then the collected…