THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An app to earn money from waste, including from plastic and e-waste. Sounds interesting? <\/p>\n
ClearScrap, a new initiative registered with the Kerala Startup Mission by four young professionals, is a facilitator interface for scrap collection, taking trash away by giving you a better rate than the market value. Launched in August, the app is gathering steam, with active participation in the city areas of Thiruvananthapuram.<\/p>\n
Through the app, collection agents can learn about households from where scrap can be collected. Aiming at a pan-Kerala market by next year, the firm is also planning to expand to other metro cities in south India by 2027.<\/p>\n
\u201cThough there are very few apps for scrap collection in the country, all have their own collection yards, from where the waste is handed over to disposers. <\/p>\n
We do not have a yard; the collection agents can directly approach households,\u201d said Syed Mohammed Ashik, the chief financial officer of the firm. The app does not pose a threat to the job of collection agents, and better revenue can be generated by all stakeholders, Ashik clarified. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe had agents who made a profit of Rs 60,000 a month,\u201d Ashik said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An app to earn money from waste, including from plastic and e-waste. Sounds interesting? ClearScrap, a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[103342,103341,2306,103343,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-247050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-clearscrap","9":"tag-kerala-startup-mission","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-scrap-collection","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}