Sustainable Business For Tomorrow
Healthy Eating
Rhea Singhal, Founder & CEO, Ecoware, has introduced a biodegradable disposable brand for food packaging. Ecoware uses the waste of locally sourced agricultural crops and converts it into disposable tableware for use in food services, medical care and industrial packaging. The company employs a multi-channel sales strategy and is used by all sectors of food services – hotels, restaurants, schools, hospitals, offices, airports, etc.
High on Hygiene
Tanvi Johri, Founder & CEO, Carmesi, addresses menstrual hygiene by providing safe and healthy sanitary pads to deliver an exceptional experience that changes the mindset about how they deal with period products. Carmesi sanitary pads are biodegradable and come with biodegradable disposal bags which are convenient and hygienic.
Natural Décor
Since 1852, Hästens from Sweden has handcrafted the finest beds, handmade using only premium sustainable natural materials and techniques handed down through six generations. It uses premium natural materials such as flax, horsehair, cotton, wool and Scandinavian pine; giving the best sleep experience. Available in 36 countries, and with more than 200 partners in Europe, Asia and the Americas, this once-modest family business has grown to become a global manufacturer, retailer and royal purveyor of premium beds.
Redefining Travel
Hilton will eliminate plastic straws across its managed hotels in the Asia Pacific by end 2018, and transition away from plastic bottles from its conference and event spaces. This follows the company’s global commitment to cut its environmental footprint in half and double its social impact investment by 2030. By focusing first on plastic straws and plastic bottled water, the brand has taken another step forward to ensure that the destinations where travellers work, relax, learn and explore are vibrant and resilient for future generations to come.
Green Wear
Roshan Baid, Managing Director, Alcis Sports is creating T-shirts out of waste plastic bottles. Alcis Sports, incepted 2 years back, caters to the growing Indian sportswear market and taps the emerging potential of the Indian sportswear market bringing the best of style, comfort suited specifically for the Indian sensibilities and weather with international quality at Indian prices. Wonder Tee and Wonder Polo range is made using R-PET (Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate) which is the strong, durable and recyclable material used for soda bottles, water bottles, food jars, etc, making it an environment-friendly, cost-effective and safe product that also performs better than 100% virgin polyester.
Optimizing Logistics
Nishith Rastogi, CEO and Co-founder, Locus.sh believes in understanding and helping the environment with his platform as a service (PaaS) which optimizes logistics operations for organizations and leads to 25% less fuel consumption for clients. It ensures optimum utilization of the vehicle space with their 3D packing software that offers a blueprint of the truck and how the products should be placed for best results. In addition to cost reduction for enterprises in fuel consumption, it automatically leads to lesser carbon emissions with lesser number of vehicles on road. Locus is also optimising routes for vehicles in such a way that the cooling systems have to work for the minimum possible time. So less use of the cooling systems means fewer emissions of greenhouse gases.
