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Turning plant waste into carbon credits, building blocks and a home for children.
Across India, invasive plants and crop waste are often burned in the open. We think that waste can do more good. Turned into biochar, a stable charcoal that locks carbon away for a long time, it can earn carbon credits, which companies buy to offset their emissions.
The same biochar can go into building blocks made by women from local self-help groups, who earn wages for the work. Value from both streams flows towards one purpose: a home where children without parents grow up with a house mother, good food and good schooling.
Can waste that would otherwise be burned become climate value and useful building material, and can that work help pay for a children's home?
Making biochar from invasive plants such as prosopis juliflora and lantana, and from crop residue such as wheat straw, at low cost and to a high, verifiable standard. That means understanding machines, feedstock (the plant waste fed in), capacity, and what carbon-credit registries require.
Using biochar in concrete blocks, pavers and precast parts for village councils, rural housing and the open market. The purpose behind it is a home for 10 to 15 children, supported by company social-responsibility giving (CSR), environmental and social funding (ESG) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
We are doing this work and would be glad to do it together. If any part of it fits what you do, write to us.
Write to hello@indo.science with a line on who you are and how you'd like to help.