Aditya Banger is the Founder of Trash To Treasure. This startup recycles plastic bottles, and wrappers, and covers into the fabric for clothes. Aditya is from Rajasthan, India.
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- Aditya featured in The Better India, News18, Udaipur Times, and many more platforms as an entrepreneur
STARTUP JOURNEY
As per the reports of 2019, nearly 3.3 million metric tonnes of plastic wound up in landfills across India. However, to reduce the burden on the environment, Aditya started recycling plastic bottles, wrappers, and covers to make fabrics.
Aditya comes from a textile manufacturing family. He went on a business trip to China. He traveled with his uncle, the owner of Kanchan India Limited, to see new manufacturing techniques for producing fabrics.
That is when he came across a unit that was converting a huge amount of plastic waste into the fabric. It not only reduces waste going into the landfills but also manufactures good quality material and creates employment locally.
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Once they returned Aditya, who was in Class 10 at the time, pitched an idea to his family about starting a business of producing fabric from plastic. His uncle and parents agreed and supported his startup. By collaborating with a foreign company, Aditya had a manufacturing unit set up in Bhilwara.
The project was funded by the parent company, Kanchan India Limited. In January 2021, when the lockdowns were eased, Aditya started sourcing plastic waste from all over the nation. He connected with local waste collection centers and purchased PET-grade plastic for Rs.40 kilograms.
Today, Aditya claims to have recycled 10 tonnes of plastic every year. However, buying the same in providing to be expensive plastic waste directly from residents who are collecting them for recycling.
The process takes one or two days but the fabric produced is stronger than regular cotton and is more durable.
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