Incubator
Eligibility Criteria:
Any Individual Students/Graduates/Researchers/Scientist/ Working Professional
Group of individuals, company, MSMEs, and start-ups registered in India.
Program Duration:
The program will run for one year.
Funding Support:
Funding of INR 20 Lakhs (supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs)
Focus Areas:
- Zero Waste: Finding ways to reduce waste to a minimum.
- Plastic Waste Management: Developing methods to handle and recycle plastic
- waste.
- Waste Segregation: Sorting and separating waste effectively.
- Innovative Waste Cleaning: Creating new solutions for cleaning up waste.
- Real-time Waste Monitoring: Using technology to track and manage waste in real
- time.
- Emphasizing Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: Promoting the principles of reducing,
- reusing, and recycling waste.
- Social Innovation for Waste Management: Encouraging innovative social
- approaches to managing waste.
Zero Dump
- Interventions for promoting door-to-door collection of segregated solid waste from
- households
- Low-cost, decentralized, and replicable solutions for segregation of mixed waste
- Innovation in the mechanization of the cleaning process sweeping etc
- Decentralized solutions for processing of all segregated fractions of solid waste
- Innovative and scalable/replicable solutions for Promoting 3 R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle)
Plastic Management Waste
- Solution of processing and recycling of plastic waste
- Solutions to minimize the degradation of plastic during recycling
- Plastic waste management in eco-sensitive regions
- Innovative methods for the collection of multi-layered plastic and its disposal
- Technology for disposal of plastic from legacy dumpsites
- Alternatives of single-use plastic
- Change consumer behaviors and raise awareness around plastic segregation and recycling
- practices
- Standardization of packaging material to facilitate recycling and enhance resource efficiency
Transparency
- Tech innovations on real-time monitoring of operations in waste management infrastructure
- Innovations that track the flow of goods from manufacture to the end of their life cycle or
- disposal
- Tech solutions that calculate the environmental, social and the economic price of goods,
- especially plastics
Social Inclusion
- Social innovations for improved waste collection and management in low-income settlements
- Low – cost-efficient mechanical solutions for cleaning septic tanks and sewer lines ( Manhole to
- machine hole )
- Efficient operation and maintenance of community and public toilets in a hygienic and
- sustainable manner
- Safe containment, evacuation, transportation, processing and disposal of used water and fecal
- sludge and septage
- Decentralized / nature-based solutions for the treatment of used water