Green Power

Co-founder of Green Power, 29-year-old Mainak Chakraborty, an IIM-B graduate dumped high-profile corporate job offers to pursue his passion to create something useful out of waste.
His company is working within the campus of a private college in Bommanahalli, where kitchen waste is converted into cooking gas. Every day, over 75 kg of wet waste is processed and about 7 kg of LPG is generated on a daily basis.
“Even in a space of 150 sq m, we can set up our plant. We specialize in wet waste management. From every tonne, we can produce 200 units of electricity. If BBMP gives us some place within its dry waste collection centre, we are ready to work. We would like to work with NGOs who are into dry and wet waste collection centres,” Chakraborty said.
In the past one-and-a-half years, Chakraborty interacted with many solid waste management experts who gave technical advice to help him start the waste-to-energy plant. His firm was picked as one of the 50 most promising startups across the world in 2011, by the Global Entrepreneurship Week.