Meet the Entrepreneur: Roshan Miranda from Waste Ventures India

Meet the Entrepreneur: Roshan Miranda from Waste Ventures India

August 1, 2019

Waste Ventures India has established a formalized market for waste streams which averts waste from landfill and creates higher incomes for the waste pickers, with standardized prices with upfront payments. They purchase and segregate dry and wet waste from third-party waste pickers, corporates and apartment complexes, and process it to sell to recyclers.

Interview footage kindly filmed by Azimut Social Business https://vimeo.com/azimutcompany

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