A recent video posted on Twitter showed a man, Kalyan Kumar, who made eco-friendly containers out of rice bran. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor retweeted the video and encouraged the Government to scale up production of such products. Kalyan says his multi-biodegradable machine can work on wheat bran, tamarind seeds, peanut shells, and many other forms of organic waste. One of his machines is being sent to Belgium where it will repurpose waste from beer into wine glasses and tea cups. Kalyan says a paper cup remains the same for three years, but bio-degradable products degrade within eight hours after contact with water.
Key Takeaways:
- Kalyan has a machine that can recycle up to 15 raw materials such as rice bran and wheat bran.
- These machines have been sent to Tamil Nadu as well as Australia and Saudi Arabia.
- He also has a machine that repurposes beer waste into wine glasses and cups in a ratio of 700 grams of waste to 300 grams of food solution.
“Along with rice bran and areca leaf plates stacked on his table, there are air-tight food boxes made using saw dust from teak wood.”
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