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‘The Recycle Man of India’ Who created USE out of the USELESS. Dr. Binish R. Desai Entrepreneur, Businessman
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r. Binish Desai is an innovator and a Social Entrepreneur working on industrial waste recycling and management. He holds a Masters degree in Environmental Engineering and an Honorary Ph.D in Environmental Science and Technology. He started his journey at a very young age of 11years, by carrying out home based experiments with chewing gum and paper. He currently has 150+ eco-products under the EcoEclectic Technologies banner in India. He is a Padma Shri nominee and has received many Nnational and International awards for his contributions. He is the youngest to be awarded the "Rotary International Alumni Humanitarian of the Year" award for South Asia and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018 list of successful Social Entrepreneurs. He is known as The Waste Warrior and Recycle Man of India for his works in recycling more than 700 tonnes of Industrial waste. He believes that the concept of "Waste" does not exist in Nature, the waste was generated by human consumption, and thus it is our duty to sustainably get rid of it. With a vision to eliminate the industrial waste from
landfills; he founded Eco Eclectic Technology in 2016, a lab that focuses on providing cost effective eco-friendly technologies and solutions for various industrial wastes and using them for social impact. Brand name: E.E. Tech Group, Eco Eclectic Technologies, Eco Lights Studio. Company name: Eco Eclectic Group. Brand Tagline: “Nothing is useless in this world; what can be a waste to you is someone’s asset” USP: Convert waste into eco innovations and luxury and empowering women. What inspired you to start a Company in Recycling and Waste Management and what was the purpose behind it? At the age of 10, when I got inspired from my favourite cartoons Captain Planet and Dexter’s Lab. In the same fashion of trying to help Captain Planet, I started thinking of how I can help save the environment. My first innovation was actually when I observed the water vapor that was coming out ofmy mom’s kitchen and that resulted in my first innovation. So I created a machine where all the water vapor from the kitchen could be condensed into water for gardening. So that seemed to be a crazy innovation, because that is
when I learned about evaporation and condensation. The reason I am here today is actually because of my invention at the age of 11 when a chewing gum was stuck on my pants during a classroom and I had to remove it with a piece of paper. So, it had hardened up and I went back home and did the same experiment again. That resulted in invention of the first brick. Back then it was never meant to be a brick; that was during the same time when I learned the word slums in the class and the negativity that surrounded it. So, I decided to create world’s most cost-effective homes and that is how the idea of making bricks out of that material came into existence. Keeping that in mind of creating world’s most cost effective home, I continued experimenting and by the age of 14 years, I had my final recipe that was to be patented. During the same time, I got selected as Rotary Exchange student to the United States. That changed my life forever, because this was the transition period of one year which made me go from pursuing a passion to actually pursuing a career. So in 2010, at the age of 16, after returning back from US, I started my company, the first Company of making the bricks out of paper wastes. I had only Rs.1600 in my pocket. When I told my family that I want to start something like this and they said “Sorry, but we will not support you in this”. Because workNOVEMBER 2020
