Pom Pom: Convert Your Trash into Cash

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Pom Pom is your modern-day kabadiwala, making sure you get the right returns for your recyclables.

Modern-day disposing

Some facts first: Did you know that recycling one aluminium can can save enough energy to run a TV for three hours? Recycling one tonne of paper saves 17 trees. 17.

Pom Pom is a recycling start-up that wants to bring about social change. You can dispose off anything recyclable with the help of responsible Pom Pom. The cherry on top? You get the best possible price for it.

The beginning of something good

Founded by Deepak Sethi and Kishore K Thakur who, having worked with the successful Delhi Waste Management, started Pom Pom in South Delhi, looking to solve the disposal problems of 1,000,000 individuals, who generate recyclable waste every single day. Pom Pom segregates this waste into different categories and supplies them to industries that make recycled products. You can quickly call, message, or request {through the app. Yes, they have an app} Pom Pom at your doorstep and do your bit.

More reasons to switch {it off}!

Pom Pom uses electronic weighing scales, so you know you won’t get cheated. There are no delays, because the Pom Pom team visits, weighs and pays in cash, right there, right then. You can set up a time for a visit according to your convenience and book them through the app.

Price per kg of waste is available here, and you can say goodbye to negotiations and arguments. {And your garbage, of course!}.

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A full time enthusiast of the 'gram', Kasturi paints and writes on her eponymous blog. She's looking to establish herself in a stable job despite her impending and current existential quarter life crisis. Not having stayed in one place for too long, she muses about the Arts and has an astronomical appetite for, well, food.