On Thursday, October 4th, the Marblehead Rotary Club is proud to present Dr. Binish Desai as our speaker at our weekly Rotary luncheon meeting. If you would like to join us, please come to the Boston Yacht Club, at 1 Front Street, Marblehead at 12:00 PM.Dr. Binish Desai is an innovator and a Social Entrepreneur from Gujarat,India. He is a second generation Rotarian from Valsad district 3060 and was awarded Paul Harris fellow in 2010 by his host district 6440 during his rotary youth exchange year. He is also District 3060 Alumni co-chair for year 18-19.
He is known for his works on industrial waste recycling and management. He holds a masters degree in environmental engineering and an honorary PhD in Environmental Sci and technology. He started his journey at a very young age, 11 by carrying out home based experiments with chewing gum and paper. He currently has 150+ eco-product under the EcoEclectic Technologies banner in India and have received many national and international awards for his contributions such as being one of the youngest to be awarded with "Rotary International Alumni Global Service" award for South Asia, He also was recently named in Forbes in Asia’s 30 Most successful social entrepreneurs under 30 years and Top 25 Social Entrepreneurs of India list. He is know as Waste Warrior and Recycle Man of India for his works in recycling more than 700 tonnes of Industrial waste.
“The recycle man” a book based on his life and work is being written by world renowned best seller author Dr Nikhil Chandanwani.
He believes that the concept of "Waste" does not exist in Nature, the waste was generated by human consumption, Thus it is our duty to sustainably get rid of it. With a vision to eliminate the industrial waste from landfills; he founded Eco Eclectic Technology in 2016, a lab that focuses on providing cost effective eco-friendly technologies and solutions for various industrial wastes and using them for social impact. His famous quote is “There is nothing useless in this world what might be a waste to you is someone’s asset”.