Sampurn(E)arth

Sampurnearth Environment Solutions Pvt. Ltd. was founded in the year 2012 by three social entrepreneurs from TISS with a vision to make a better world, where waste is totally transformed into utilizable resources without exploitation of people or planet. It is supported by DBS-TISS Social Entrepreneurship Programme and Unltd India. Sampurnearth Environment Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is one of the largest environmental solutions providers in India, serving more than 40,000 municipal, commercial and industrial customers in India.

Sampurnearth has invested in developing waste management solutions for a changing world. Today, this includes not just disposal and recycling, but personal counselling to help customers achieve their green goals, including zero waste. With a healthy network of recycling facilities, collection centres and waste pickers, their entire business can adapt to meet the needs of every distinct customer segment right from an individual household to a municipality.

Some of Sampurnearth's services include consulting, Operations & Maintenance contracts, reactivation of defunct plants, educational visits as well as awareness campaigns. The company also provides products ranging from wet & dry waste management as well as e-waste management.

Sampurnearth is based in Mumbai but has its operations across the country in over 20 cities. Based on the city, their models vary from working directly with ragpickers or dry waste collectors or aggregators and their source ranging from households to landfills. They collect a diverse variety of plastic packaging including MLP packaging waste. Currently they collect 3000 tons of MLP packaging waste every month across all its locations. 

Sampurnearth is an EPR partner for many corporates. Under EPR, all the MLP packaging waste they collect is sent to cement kilns or waste to energy plants.

Sampurnearth has received many awards and recognition for their solutions including:

• National Entrepreneurship Award
• Global Social Venture, Berkeley
• Forbes 30 under 30 Asia Award
• Bharat Chamber of Commerce, Kolkata
• Mumbai Mirror