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Holy Waste is a social enterprise run by Maya Vivek and Minal Dalmia at Gundlapochampally village in Kompally. They process floral waste from temples to manufacture fragrant soaps, incense sticks and natural compost. Seated on the floor of the terrace, a team of women start plucking petals from semi-dried and wilted roses.

Maya and Minal became friends through their children. Their friendship led them to dream of doing something together but had absolutely no idea what. Says Minal, “Around that time we read the news of the Kanpur-based brand ‘Help us green’ who process flowers from temples. We began experimenting at home. We would forage the colony’s gardens and streets to pick flowers and worked at home to first understand the process. We started our experiment in October 2018. We had no prototype until then. We were successful in doing what we wanted to by the end of the month with help from a few people. We set our first bin at Skandagiri temple in Secunderabad, in November 2018.”

Holy Waste is less than a year old and has won the Best Green Startup award under Eco Ideas by Green India Awards 2019.After the petals are dried they are made into a fine powder with an industrial grinder that can work for an hour at length. Every week the team powders about two kilograms of dried petals.
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