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This serial entrepreneur uses a B2B model to recycle truckloads of trash

Abhay Deshpande's firm Recykal currently collects over 10,000 tonnes of garbage a month from schools, colleges and commercial set-ups, and plans to take it to 100,000 tonnes soon.

Abhay Deshpande, Founder, Recykal
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Abhay Deshpande, Founder, Recykal

Neha Alawadhi New Delhi
Using technology to solve one of India's age-old problems, Hyderabad-based Recykal, which describes itself as the "Uber of waste collection," is on a mission to ensure trash is recycled responsibly instead of being dumped as is. 

A serial entrepreneur, Abhay Deshpande earlier founded marketplace Malamall.com in 1997, and an enterprise-class multichannel commerce platform Martjack in 2007, which was acquired by Capillary Technologies in 2015. 

After these two ventures, the computer science engineer wanted to build a startup once again. Only this time, it was with a specific purpose, and Deshpande knew very well that the risk of failure

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