Ravindra

My name is Ravindra and I am CEO, co-founder and managing director of Sri Chakra Polyplast.

We collect all the post-consumer plastic waste.

So mostly we source through traders and also a few startups who are also involved in collecting this waste plastic.

And when the waste plastic is collected and received at our end, we do a decontamination of the plastic.

So we do segregation, we do clean it, crush it and dry it and will be used for the next phase.

and subsequently these granules would be supplied to the bottling industry where they convert this resin into bottles.

We definitely feel proud about it.

Initially, when we started, honestly speaking, our knowledge about this product was very, very limited.

But as and when we entered into it, we found that it's really interesting and we knew that we are making our contribution to this plastic waste.

And now we are getting the circularity.

It's not that end-of-the-life product we are producing.

The product which we make, it can be in a circular loop forever, can go in for multiple recyclings.

But hurdles remain.

The major challenge to industry is that the quality feedback, because the segregation is not very organized in India.

We get a lot of other contaminations which we need to be handled at our recycling facility.

Segregation at source or the proper collection systems are not in place.

So that's a major challenge what I could see at this moment.

But it's changing.

Compared to 15 years when we started, comparing to today, I think there's significant improvement happened.