Founded in 2018, Bambrew provides sustainable packaging solutions across hospitality, FMCG, retail, and logistics sectors to more than 170 clients, including Amazon, Nykaa, 1MG, and more.
As an animal lover and a pet parent, Vaibhav Anant was pained to watch videos of plastic straws being pulled out of a turtle’s nasal track.
Social media platforms are filled with videos about animals getting caught in plastic litter. While some of us watching these videos are moved to make changes in our lifestyle, Vaibhav decided to address the root cause of the problem—single-use plastic.
In 2018, Vaibhav quit his job as Associate Vice-President at a leading edtech company, to launch green packaging startup Bambrew.
“The problem that the world is facing with single-use plastic today is a menace. It is a huge problem across the globe, not only in India. On a regular basis, we consume a lot of micro-plastics unknowingly which was another thing that led me to drive this single-use plastic alternate business,” says Vaibhav.
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Plastic contributes to eight percent of India’s total solid waste, with Delhi producing the maximum quantity followed by Kolkata and Ahmedabad, according to Central Pollution Control Board of India (CPCB) reports. In India, around 43 percent of manufactured plastic is used for packaging purposes, most of which is for single use.
While the Greentech startup began its journey to find sustainable alternatives for straws, Vaibhav realized that single-use plastic is a much larger problem. This is when he forayed into packaging products.