Globally, we produce 13 million tonne of textile waste each year 95% of which could be reused or recycled. How much waste does the fashion industry actually produce? An average consumer throws away 70 pounds (31.75 kg) of clothing per year. And the worst part is, the majority of our clothes goes to landfill, even though we could easily reuse or recycle them,” explains Tula. We produce way more clothes than we need, and we discard them after a couple of wears. “The fashion industry is one of the most wasteful industries in the world. Similarly, Delhi-based Doodlage, a design house founded by Kriti Tula in 2012, uses discarded waste cloth from factories to create unique items of sustainable fashion line. “Fleather is a breakthrough material that performs and feels like leather, but is non-animal and non-plastic,” adds Agarwal.

Phool’s latest product is ‘fleather’, which, as the name suggests, is a type of leather made from waste flowers. We reuse temple flowers in the making of incense sticks and cones and recycle incense sticks by recycling temple flowers,” says Agarwal. We do not use charcoal or any other chemical-based ingredients in products. “We minimise the use of plastic in packaging, reduce carbon footprint by not using heavy machinery in processes, use sun-drying against machines to process flowers, and all the incense sticks and cones are handcrafted. The startup promotes the idea of planting trees through a seed card in all the boxes. Phool does the product packaging in a plastic pouch which is made from oxo-biodegradable plastic, and the outer box is made from cardboard, is biodegradable as well recyclable.

The startup uses flowers from temples across India and creates products such as charcoal-free incense sticks and incense cones, vermicompost and organic and biodegradable packaging materials through its ‘flowercycling’ technology.Ĭollecting 8.4 tonne of floral waste from temples in Uttar Pradesh on a daily basis, Phool has so far recycled 11,060 tonne of the by-product and counting. When he realised his mission was to repurpose this waste coming from places of worship, thus was born Phool, a biomaterials startup co-founded by Agarwal and Prateek Kumar in 2017. Ratan Tata to Dhirubai Ambani: Classic luxury cars owned by top Indian business tycoons

Windows 10 windows boot manager