plastic-recovery
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Founder · Executive · Operator
The thesis that refused to end
Svanika Balasubramanian went to Mumbai to study the recycling economy. The people she met changed what she wanted to do with her economics degree - and became the starting point for rePurpose Global.
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Executive · Operator · Activist
Manika Doshi
Manika Doshi is the CEO of rePurpose Global, the New York-based plastic action platform that has pulled 100 million pounds of plastic waste out of nature across 11 countries and partnered with 500+ brands. A materials science engineer turned operator, she rose from COO to chief executive in January 2026 as the company pivots toward packaging-compliance software and Extended Producer Responsibility. Her brief: make a tangled, regulation-heavy problem simple enough that brands move from intention to action at scale.
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