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My practice is focused on investigating value chains and making waste materials come to lifeagain. This is the rebirth of materials that were once exiled to towering landfills or incinerators.Background:The advent of the mining industry in the industrial era brought about an obsession with virginraw materials. Globally it was the era of Production.Being a demand focused economy, the focus was on producing. Raw materials were pumpedinto powerful machines that turned them into shiny new products. Great Packaging’scomprising of layers of Plastic and non-biodegradable materials were used to influence buyers.While the economy boomed, Manufacturing Companies became Billions of $’s in size but it leftbehind a cold trail of little to large pieces of industrial scrap produced with each manufacturingoperation of each Product. Not only was this the beginning of a catastrophe for theenvironment, copious amounts of energy and resources for manufacturing in the first placewere wasted.The Indian subcontinent has a rich tradition of recycling. This largely informal sector collectsand segregates profuse amounts of industrial waste on a daily basis. Many of the materials weregard as waste have the potential to become raw materials for new products and processes.What we do:My projects led through company “Material Library of India” are focused on remodeling theuse of industrial waste materials by combining the knowledge and skills of traditional craftswith modern materials.In one process, the sophistication of traditional craft is capable of turning the most unrelentingof materials into fluid surfaces through complex weaves. Multitude of these creative processescan enable an organic transformation of industrial waste into usable products.At Material Library of India, we are able to generate and sustain a latent value in industrialwaste materials that can be harvested. This is a conscious step to encourage emerging makersto use these non-hazardous waste materials as legitimate resources to make everydayproducts, ranging from furniture to lifestyle accessories, from textiles to ceramics.Modern Manufacturing not only needs to be clean and more Environment friendly, it alsoneeds to relook at the existing processes to monetize every single ounce of waste. This helpsthe environment and the bottom-line of the company.Material Library of India helps create a two way WIN, a win for the Companies it consults tohelp monetize the waste as also as much to help build a sustainable Environment for