How Two Ahmedabad-Based Students Started An AI Waste Segregation Startup
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- ✓Ahmedabad students Harshil Patel and Rikin Parekh started SegReClaim to fix India’s trash crisis using AI.
- ✓Their smart bin sorts waste into clean chambers within three seconds.
- ✓Patel said, "We spend billions trying to clean up mixed garbage after it has already rotted." They now plan to install these units.
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- India Economy
An Ahmedabad-based startup is trying to solve India's trash crisis. Started by two students, Harshil Patel and Rikin Parekh, SegReClaim aims to use artificial intelligence to sort waste disposal.
India generates over 62 million tonnes of solid waste every year, but segregation at the source remains an issue. Municipalities spend hundreds of crores to create manual sorting yards at landfills. But mixed trash often sits in the sun for hours, leading to high-value recyclable materials becoming contaminated or worthless.
SegReClaim aims to change this.
An Idea For A Startup
The idea for the venture started when Patel visited regional waste-to-energy facilities and local municipal dump yards in the final year of his B.Tech in Computer Engineering.
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