Turning trash into cash: Entrepreneurs redefine waste management
municipal solid waste into charcoal, a project for which he has set up a plant in Gangoh, a nondescript town in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district.
“Cogo (Eco-Tech Solutions) is a Latin word, meaning bringing together,” says Kurishingal, 59, with a smile on his face as he points towards the logo on the new machines. “The USP of this Make-in-India technology is that it requires no segregation of waste at all. All types of waste can be put into a single machine.”
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Leadership in AIVisitIIM LucknowIIML Chief Executive Officer ProgrammeVisitIIM LucknowIIML Chief Operations Officer ProgrammeVisitIn 2022, during a brief visit to India to seek cutting-edge machinery for waste management, Kurishingal and his London-based fellow-Indian origin friend Naresh Eyani encountered Rajesh Chaudhary in Ghaziabad. A mechanical engineer from IIT-Delhi with more than a decade of experience in installing waste processing plants in Ukraine, Russia, Italy, among others, Chaudhary had by then started a boutique factory in his hometown, designing new machines to address India’s mounting landfill crisis. Chaudhary roped in another entrepreneur Alok Kant to sell his new products to municipal corporations.
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Sensing the latent potential in Chaudhary’s groundbreaking machinery, the NRI duo opted not merely to procure his product but to extend an invitation to Chaudhary and Kant to become an integral part of their enterprise.
