Find the best upcycling and recycled-material brands in India on the Prakati Green Directory. This category lists verified businesses turning waste materials — textile scraps, rubber, plastic, and more — into new, genuinely useful products.\n\nBrands listed here include Swarnakaruna Princeton Rubber Industries (rubber recycling), Unirec Store, LukkaChuppi (accessories from upcycled fabric), Indha, Mona B (recycled-material bags and accessories), reCharkha, Mistry, and Malai, among others. These businesses are core to India’s circular economy, diverting waste from landfills and reducing demand for virgin raw materials by giving discarded materials a genuine second life. Browse this directory to find verified upcycled and recycled-material brands across India.
K Ganesan & Co Group of Companies (KG & Co) is a Dindigul-based waste recycling and reprocessing business in Tamil Nadu. It handles plastic waste, electronic waste, scrap and hazardous waste, with a focus on reducing landfill impact and promoting circular practices. What KG & Co Does The group runs recycling facilities that process e-waste, […]
Shamsh Eco Renew Recycling is a solar panel recycling company based in Mungi, Chhattisgarh. The business collects end-of-life solar panels and recovers the materials inside them, so that the fast-growing stock of retired photovoltaic modules does not end up in landfill. About Shamsh Eco Renew Recycling As India installs more solar capacity, the first generation
n About Swarnakaruna Princeton Rubber Industries nnnn Swarnakaruna Princeton Rubber Industries Pvt. Ltd., based in Visakhapatnam, is one of the leading crumb rubber manufacturers in Andhra Pradesh, converting end-of-life scrap tyres into high-quality, graded crumb rubber. The company was founded in 2012 as K.S. Princeton Rubber Industries and rebranded in 2018 to its present name,
About Unirec Store Unirec Store is a Mumbai-based sustainable fashion label, trading under Brandstore India Pvt. Ltd., that manufactures everyday apparel from recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles. Founded on the belief that fashion should be “a commitment to the planet” rather than a purely aesthetic choice, Unirec Store converts post-consumer plastic waste into soft, breathable
LukkaChuppi is a Vadodara-based, Gujarat-founded design studio that builds handcrafted bags, clutches, and lifestyle accessories entirely from upcycled fabric. Rather than sourcing new textiles, the brand works with existing cloth — fabric scraps, leftover yardage, and pre-loved materials — and reshapes them using origami-inspired folding and construction techniques, turning what would otherwise be discarded material
About Indha Indha is a social enterprise that turns traditional Indian craftsmanship and creative upcycling into sustainable, handcrafted bags, accessories, home décor, and gifting products. Founded by Capt. Indraani Singh, Indha grew out of Literacy India’s Karigari programme — a skill-development and livelihood initiative that has trained and empowered women and youth in rural India
About Mona B Mona B is a Delhi-based internet-first brand that has been designing eco-conscious bags and accessories since 2012. Built around the creative direction of founder Mona B, the brand set out to prove that everyday accessories — backpacks, handbags, crossbodies, laptop bags, and weekender bags — could be made without depleting virgin natural
About reCharkha reCharkha — The EcoSocial Tribe is a Pune-based social enterprise founded by Amita Deshpande on a simple conviction: development can only be sustainable if it is bottom-up. The brand takes its name from the charkha, the traditional Indian spinning wheel that symbolises self-reliance and heritage craft, and repurposes that idea for a modern
About Mistry Mistry is a New Delhi-based label that handcrafts leather bags, footwear, and accessories from recovered leather cuts and industry off-cuts. Founded in 2020, the brand grew out of an existing family-run manufacturing operation and has since established itself as an independent voice in Indian slow fashion. Every product in the Mistry line is
About Malai Malai is a Kochi-based material design and biomaterials company that has reimagined what leather can be. Founded in 2018 by material designer Zuzana Gombosova and product designer and engineer Susmith Suseelan, Malai grows a bio-composite material from bacterial cellulose — a substance produced by fermenting coconut water waste — and reinforces it with
About Reclaim Nation Reclaim Nation is a Bristol-based sustainable furniture company that designs and sells furniture crafted entirely from reclaimed wood and recycled materials. With nearly 30 years of experience designing and selling furniture, the business was built around a simple idea: timber already in circulation deserves a second life rather than a place in
About Trad Collective Trad Collective is a sustainable fashion store based at 80 Vicar Lane in the heart of Leeds city centre, UK. Founded by Swedish fashion designer Josefin Wanner and her partner James Fenwick, Trad Collective is built on a clear conviction: that clothing should last, and that the fashion industry’s cycle of overconsumption
About Jollia Jollia is a London-based sustainable fashion label founded during the 2020 lockdown by Maria, an international marketing executive of Bulgarian origin. The brand was born out of admiration for her mother — an accomplished designer of hand-embroidered Bulgarian folklore clothing — and the conviction that traditional craft techniques and contemporary sustainable design can
About Ok Round 2 Ok Round 2 is a secondhand clothing store based in the Barranco neighbourhood of Lima, Peru, founded in March 2019 by Viviana Meza Coronado. Meza Coronado left full-time employment to build a business dedicated to generating ecological and sustainable change through the direct act of extending the life of clothing. The
About eddys eddys is a New York City-based clothing brand making eco-friendly knitwear sets for babies and toddlers, founded by Carla Farina — known affectionately as “Carlita” within the brand’s own story. Farina comes from three generations of textile makers: her grandmother worked as a seamstress in the United States in the 1960s, and her
About Roncy Packs Roncy Packs is a Toronto-based, family-run small business that handcrafts detachable fanny packs, crossbody bags, and accessories entirely from reclaimed textiles. Founded in 2020, the brand was built around a simple, deeply personal idea: a mother’s skill with a sewing machine could turn discarded materials into something people would want to wear
About Recycle Bazzar Recycle Bazzar is a Meghalaya-based waste management platform connecting households and businesses with trained waste collectors and certified scrap centres through a mobile app. Founded by Rony Saha, the platform addresses a fundamental gap in India’s informal waste management system: the disconnection between waste generators who want to recycle responsibly and the
About Bam Fiber Bam Fiber is a Manipur-based startup manufacturing biodegradable tissue paper and packaging products from banana fibers and bamboo leaves. Founded by Konthoujam Johnson Singh, the company addresses one of the most persistent environmental challenges in India: the dominance of single-use plastic in everyday packaging. By using agricultural residues — banana plant fibers
About Ekanbha Ekanbha is a social enterprise based in Shillong, Meghalaya, manufacturing sustainable jute bags through a team of skilled persons with disabilities. Founded by Ferdinand Lyngdoh Marshillong — himself a person with hearing impairment — the organisation proves that meaningful employment and environmental responsibility can work together. Every bag made by Ekanbha is 100%
About Kumbhi Kagaz Kumbhi Kagaz is an Assam-based initiative manufacturing chemical-free, handmade paper products from water hyacinth — an invasive aquatic plant that chokes wetlands across Northeast India. Founded by Rupankar Bhattacharjee and Aniket Dhar, the brand transforms a persistent environmental problem into a sustainable livelihood, producing journals, notebooks, calendars, and sculptures that carry both
