impACT I October'22 Edition

ACT For Environment grantees CEC & FIB-SOL showcase their solutions at the PUSA Krishi Mela

FIB-SOL is pioneering a microbial gel-based product which helps reduce the use of chemical fertilisers while reducing costs for farmers and CEC is leading the adoption of SWAR - a sub-soil diffuser that aids water savings & increases farmer incomes.

Dr. Kavitha Sairam (Founder, FIB-SOL) & Gopal Komandur (Director, CEC) got the opportunity to interact with Om Birla (Speaker, Lok Sabha) & Kailash Chowdary (Union Minister, Agriculture & Farmer Welfare) on the change their orgs are trying to catalyse.

Read more here.

ICAC 2022 winner Agri To Power joins the ACT For Environment collective 

A2P’s AI based platform uses satellite imagery to identify areas where crop waste burning is prevalent & creates a marketplace where crop waste can be turned into clean biofuels instead.

We are excited to see A2P at the forefront of fighting air pollution with their technological solution that reduces agricultural emissions and increases clean energy use in the country.

Read more here

ACT For Environment partners with APChemi in their journey to build global plastic circularity

APChemi's patented technology PUREMAX™ removes contaminants from pyrolysis oil generated from mixed plastic & biomass waste to produce PUROIL™ - a high quality oil that's proven to be the best feedstock for the production of biofuels, circular polymers, sustainable chemicals and sustainable vehicle fuels

Our collaboration aims to exemplify the global scalability of sustainably recycling non-recyclable plastic waste.

Know more here.

Zero Circle comes on board as an ACT For Environment grantee  

Building an alternative to plastic packaging, Zero Circle extracts dried biomass from seaweed and uses proprietary processes to make seaweed resins. These resins can be used to make flexible films for a multitude of uses including food covering, bags, and packaging. 

The final product is fully home-compostable and marine-degradable with no residues and also also offers additional revenue opportunities for seaweed farmers.

Read more here.

ACT For Health kicks off a multi-stakeholder collaborative initiative

The team is catalysing a network of NGOs as implementation partners for ACT For Health grantees - with the aim of strengthening the healthcare ecosystem through innovation.

The key objective of this collaboration is to match the tech needs of NGOs working with underserved communities with the solutions that ACT for Health is supporting within its portfolio and leverage the pilot projects to understand their overall impact. 

5 NGOs have been onboarded as implementation partners so far and we are excited to see the pilots unfold.