Startup for Plastic Waste Disposal Wins Rs. 0.5 million at Dasani Discovery Challenge
From the Blog propakistani Umer Abid and his team have won a prize of Rs. 0.5 million for proposing an idea using plastic waste as a road-building material in the Dasani Discovery Challenge, organized by Coca Cola. The competition was launched in November last year at the 021DISRUPT event of The Nest I/O. Overall, 73 entries were received, which were evaluated by a panel of 3 eminent judges, who shortlisted 12 entries. These shortlisted participants were then invited to show detailed presentations to the judges, based on which the final 3 winners were selected, all of whom happened to be from Karachi. The second prize of Rs. 300,000 went to Umer Farooq and his team, who proposed manufacturing of building blocks, paver blocks, roof tiles, park benches, and other items using plastic waste. The winner of tpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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