From dump to data: How this start-up is fixing India’s waste management issue

In January 2026, old friends Rahul Nainani (a chartered finance analyst) and Gurashish Singh Sahni (a real estate employee) were exploring potential start-up ideas when they discovered a huge fire at Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai. Although fires were a common occurrence at Deonar, the wind that day was blowing towards South Bombay, which had escalated this particular fire.

During their research and survey conducted with an NGO at the dumping ground, they found that the average life expectancy of people residing in the vicinity of the dump site was…