It’s Not Just Saving The Environment That Clean Tech Startups Are Aiming For. They’re Also Building Sustainable Businesses That Turn A Regular Profit A dead laptop. That’s what turned Rohan Gupta and his brother Nitin into champions of clean tech nology . In 2006, when Ro han’s laptop stopped work ing, he and Nitin didn’t know what to do with it. “We wondered where all discarded electronics went. We didn’t know how to dispose it off in an environment-friendly way ,” says Nitin.
They had no background in e-waste management but discovered that less than 1% of the country’s e-waste was being recycled and were appalled by the gravity of the situation. So, they started Attero Recycling, an end-to-end electronic and electrical goods management service, in Noida in 2008, one of just seven companies in the world doing this.
Environmentally-conscious entrepreneurs like the Gupta brothers are using clean technology to create a green future.These entrepreneurs are building sustainable businesses that build eco-friendly products or help companies reduce their carbon footprint. “Anything produced in a sustainable manner or with less environmentally damaging materials while using technology is a clean-tech company ,” says Kunal Upadhyay , founder, Infuse Ventures, which has a fund dedicated to earlystage clean technology companies.
New solutions Mumbai-based Green India Building Systems (GIBBS) is using geothermal technology to replace traditional methods of air conditioning in commercial buildings. Usually, air conditioners in commercial buildings are water-based and the cooling tower releases a lot of heat and energy into the atmosphere. In a tropical country like India, where temperatures touch 45 to 50 degrees Celsius, an air conditioner gives off a lot of heat, explains Arun Shenoy , who started GIBBS with Mandar Kaprekar in 2010.
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