EcoSattva Environmental Solutions is a women-led social enterprise based in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, that provides services in solid waste management, green cover management, and waste water management. Their project seeks to provide services that reduce leakage and also create income-generating and otherwise empowering pathways for women. Ecosattva Environmental Solutions is also a cohort participant of The Incubation Network’s Leakage and Livelihoods program.

The program pilots a business, led by women waste pickers, to provide bulk waste management, zero waste events, and event waste management services and it tests the markets in Aurangabad, Alibag, and Rajgurunagar, and select one market. It also trains women waste pickers in: driving, circular economy, zero waste & waste reduction methods, financial & business management, communication skills, and forward linkages. The Incubation Network is establishing a technical assistance partnership between EcoSattva and a locally-based NGO to address and mitigate any potential unintended consequences, such as the risk of gender-based violence.