Vaibhav Singhai, Author at CLIMAPRENEUR

10 Dec

Phool-India’s first Biomaterial Startup recycling Flower Waste

Vaibhav Singhai0 CommentsClimate-tech, Startup

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…

Epic Cleantec: Changing the conventional flush and forget society.

Vaibhav Singhai0 CommentsStartup, Waterclimate startup, waste water recycling, water

Epic Cleantec, a San Francisco-based startup that is playing a key role in pioneering onsite wastewater recycling techniques. A start-up that wants to bring a revolutionary change in our conventional "flush and forget" society. "Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink '' these famous lines from a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge perfectly describe the tragic water scarcity conundrum of our planet. Let's talk numbers, even though 70% of our beloved planet is roughly covered in water, only 2.5% of it is freshwater, and most of that too is trapped in glaciers. In reality, only 0.007% of total…

Algae-The future of Carbon Capture Technology

Vaibhav Singhai0 CommentsClimate-tech, Startupalgae, carbon capture, climate technology

Carbon emissions are the biggest threat to life on our planet and yet every year about 35 billion metric tons of CO2 is released into the atmosphere. Cutting down the release of carbon emissions is not enough, the enormous amount of life-threatening carbon that has already been released into the atmosphere must also be removed. But how? Luckily, Brilliant Planet, a London-based startup, has found a solution. The CEO of Brilliant Planet, Adam Taylor says that "It takes time to change people, governments, and companies. We’ve got to do something about it." So in 2013, Taylor with his team of…