WIRA Labs — Waste Integration & Resource Alternatives

The problem

Last-mile mountain regions are starting to drown in waste and no existing urban model can help.

Every circularity model assumes urban infrastructure — collection systems, processing facilities, formal supply chains. WIRA Labs looks at this as a opportunity to redesign systems and processes -- converting post-consumer and construction-stream waste into products for the built environment. We currently work with glass, construction debris, and fabric waste — supplying to local builders and contractors directly, and licensing material technology to industry partners. Other streams are in development -- the future will not be defined by how much is produced, but by how intelligently existing resources are recycled.

What we make

Our products

Waste Glass Mountain System · Himachal Pradesh

A last-mile recycling loop for construction glass waste — built in the hills, for the hills. Community collection creates local income. Local processing closes a loop that no urban model reaches. Glass tiles go back into the mountain construction market.

Waste Glass Tiles

Construction and demolition glass collected from Kangra Valley villages, segregated and processed locally — transformed into affordable flooring and cladding tiles for the mountain construction market. Job creation at every stage of the supply chain, from collection to production.

Material: C&D glass waste · Process: local cold-processing, heat-pressure moulding
Market: mountain construction · flooring & cladding · export B2B
Location: Himachal Pradesh · Made here, for here and everywhere

Waste Fabric Urban System · Delhi NCR

An innovation cycle within existing formal systems — working with companies as consultants to create value from their textile waste, within their protocols, audits, and certifications. Entirely separate from the mountain context.

Waste Fabric Acoustic Panels

Textile waste sourced from corporate and manufacturing partners in Delhi NCR, transformed into acoustic insulation panels for interior design and sound insulation markets. A B2B consultancy model that works within existing waste management systems — not outside them.

Material: corporate & manufacturing textile waste · Process: compression & bonding
Market: interior design · showrooms · sound insulation · export
Location: Delhi NCR · B2B consultancy within formal systems

The people

Founded by

Co-Founder

Vijay Kowshik

Glass Artist · Material and Machinery Innovator · Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, India

A glass artist with decades of practice in material transformation. Vijay brings deep expertise in the properties of glass — how it breaks, how it can be remade, energy efficient machine research and design; and what can be achieved with advanced skill and intention.

Leading — Waste Glass Tiles

Co-Founder

Vaibhavi Kowshik

Artist · Researcher · Social Entrepreneur · Kangra, Himachal Pradesh

Working at the intersection of art, ecology, and circular economy in the Western Himalayas. Vaibhavi has spent years documenting waste accumulation, building community supply chains, and developing circularity models that can function with low tech infrastructure and grow out of informal community engagement.

Leading — Waste Fabric Acoustic Panels, Waste Glass Tiles

Fund

Support last-mile circularity

Your support funds community waste collection networks, local processing development, and the proof-of-concept that shows this model can scale across last mile regions in India with products for our environments and beyond.

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Partner

Work with us

We are looking for institutional partners, impact investors, and researchers who understand that the next frontier of circular economy is in the places formal models cannot reach.

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