Call for Applications: Startup Gateway for Garbage Free Cities – India

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.

Thematic Areas

• 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

Funding Support

• Funding of INR 20 Lakhs (supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs)
• Program Duration: The program will run for one year.

Offerings

• Business Acceleration and funding support.
• Access to technical and business mentoring through pool of subject specific experts.
• Access to state-of-the-art infrastructure, R&D Facilities, Office Space.
• Investor connect.
• Incubation support will be provided to all awardees for a period of 1 year from the date of incubation.
• Business development support through engagement with Urban Local Bodies (ULBs).

Eligibility Criteria

• Startups registered on the Startup India Portal.
• Startup must have a DPIIT certificate and a PAN card.
• The project should focus on sustainability.

For more information, visit SIIC.