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From Landfills to Leadership: The Story of Anish Malpani ๐ŸŒโ™ป๏ธ A few years ago, Anish Malpani stood at the edge of a landfill in Pune. Today, heโ€™s standing at the edge of history. This month, Anish was named a Yale Emerging Climate Leader Fellow (2026) and secured $1.9M in funding for his company Withoutยฎ. He also launched a 10,000 sq ft demonstration plant that can recycle the โ€œunrecyclableโ€ - multiโ€‘layered plastics and mixed textiles that usually end up in landfills or are burned. Why this matters: โšก Scaling the impossible: From processing 5โ€“10 kg of waste in a lab to 200 kg per day in a demo plant, with plans for a commercial facility handling up to 10 tonnes daily. ๐ŸŒฑ Circular innovation: Turning chip packets into sunglasses, sachets into shampoo bottles, and waste into highโ€‘quality raw materials for brands. ๐Ÿค Equity lens: Recognising that 4โ€“5 million informal waste workers in India depend on plastic for survival - and designing solutions that protect both people and planet. Anishโ€™s journey is proof that waste is not the end of the story - itโ€™s the beginning of a new one. India doesnโ€™t just need climate leaders. It needs climate inventors. And Anish is showing us what that looks like.

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