Updated On: 22 March, 2021 01:40 PM IST | Mumbai | Dalreen Ramos
To tackle the threat of single-use plastic heightened during the pandemic, city-based start-up launches India’s first e-refill truck that let’s you refill home care products

Desai shares that Refillable truck is set to be operational in Mumbai this week. The dispensing machine is a no-contact one and customers cannot touch it. Pics/Sameer Markande
You may not realise it but a typical household consumes an average of 840 plastic bottles of household cleaners every year. That’s 100 kilograms of plastic. It’s a fact Purav Desai informs us about, to only corroborate the need for what he’s working on. The 23-year-old Andheri resident is at the helm of Refillable, an initiative to eliminate single-use plastic through a refill delivery service for personal and home care products.