Perspectives from the team building India's environmental infrastructure — on waste, technology, regulation, and the hard work of turning a mission into a movement.
Every initiative to improve India's waste management asks people to sort better. None of them fix the bin. Understanding this distinction — and why it matters enormously — is the starting point for building solutions that actually work.
Vision-only AI systems achieve 70–85% accuracy on Indian waste. That sounds reasonable — until you understand what the 15–30% error rate actually means in practice. Here is how combining computer vision with physical sensors changes the reliability of automated waste sorting entirely.
1,000+ listed companies now legally required to report their waste data. The problem? There's no affordable, automated system to collect it at source. Here's why that gap is an opportunity — and what it means for the future of waste management in India.