About Kabadiman
Pioneering the future of clean environments and sustainable scrap management.
Pioneering the future of clean environments and sustainable scrap management.
The vision and purpose behind Kabadi Man.
Kabadi Man began with a simple observation: recycling in India isn't broken for lack of intent. It's broken for lack of access, structure, and technology.
Coming from a Tier-2 city, we saw both sides of a broken system up close. Households struggled to find reliable scrap collectors. Meanwhile, kabadiwalas — the very backbone of Indian recycling — worked tirelessly for modest incomes, travelling long distances each day with no technology, no demand certainty, and no recognition. One of us had already spent years inside this world building an earlier waste venture, and that hands-on experience made the gap impossible to ignore.
So we built Kabadi Man to close it.
Our vision isn't just to build a company. It's to build an ecosystem where sustainability meets opportunity — where empowering the informal sector with technology and connecting it to homes and businesses solves a real problem at real scale.
We believe the future of recycling in India lies in collaboration, not disruption. We're not here to replace the kabadiwala. We're here to power them.
Kabadi Man is a tech-enabled, asset-light recycling marketplace that connects households and businesses with verified kabadiwala partners for on-demand scrap pickup and responsible recycling.
Think of it as the connective layer India's recycling economy never had. We don't own trucks or employ collectors. Instead, we bring technology, consistent demand, and transparent pricing to the existing informal network — making recycling effortless for users while creating meaningfully better livelihoods for kabadiwalas, whom we proudly call our Green Entrepreneurs.
In under a year of operations, Kabadi Man has powered thousands of pickups across two cities, and is building one of India's most efficient and scalable recycling networks.
To make recycling accessible, efficient, and rewarding for every household and business, while empowering the informal waste sector with technology, dignity, and income opportunity.
To build India's largest and most trusted recycling ecosystem, and position the country as a global leader in sustainable, circular waste management.
Comprehensive solutions for responsible recycling.
Doorstep collection for households and businesses, booked via app, call, or WhatsApp, with fair, transparent, real-time pricing and instant digital payment.
We equip our Green Entrepreneurs with consistent orders, route optimization, transparent pricing, branded identity, and digital tools — helping them earn up to 3x their previous income.
Customized recycling solutions for apartments, offices, institutions, and enterprises, trusted by leading brands across the country.
Every kilogram we collect is routed to authorized recyclers, ensuring traceable, responsible processing that keeps waste out of landfills.
A unique advertising vertical that turns our partners' pickup vehicles into moving media, creating an additional income stream for kabadiwalas while offering brands hyperlocal reach.
Seamless booking, live tracking, and transparent transaction management through our platform.
End-to-end Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compliance and corporate waste solutions, helping brands and enterprises meet their plastic and e-waste recycling obligations with full traceability and audited certification, while effortlessly achieving their sustainability and ESG goals.
We're building agentic AI voice agents for effortless booking in Indian languages, an AI-powered price prediction engine, and SaaS tools for inventory, accounting, and analytics — to fully digitize India's scrap ecosystem.
Kabadi Man is the product of years spent understanding India's recycling economy from the inside, not from a boardroom.
Our founder's journey into this space began with an earlier waste-management venture, ScrapEazy, which crossed ₹2 crore in annual sales and revealed a hard truth: the problem was never the recyclers. It was the broken, asset-heavy supply chain connecting them to the people they served. That insight became the foundation for Kabadi Man — a fundamentally lighter, smarter, technology-first model.
After extensive ground research, pilot runs, and thousands of real user and kabadiwala interactions, Kabadi Man was built to work in the real world, not just in theory. The idea was simple: make scrap collection as easy as booking a cab.
What began as a local initiative has grown into a fast-scaling, multi-city platform connecting thousands of customers with a rapidly expanding network of Green Entrepreneurs, refined continuously through technology, data, and strong operational systems.
Our journey reflects a deeper purpose: bringing dignity, structure, and growth to India's informal recycling sector.
Kabadi Man aims to become the backbone of India's recycling economy.
We're building far beyond a marketplace — toward a large-scale, technology-driven ecosystem that transforms how waste is collected, processed, and reused across the country.
To multiple cities across India.
Building a nationwide kabadiwala network at scale.
Deploying AI-powered systems, including scrap price prediction and intelligent routing.
Launching SaaS tools for scrap dealers: inventory, accounting, and data-driven decisions.
Unlocking new revenue through logistics intelligence and our Mobile OOH ad network.
Offering end-to-end EPR & corporate waste management, helping brands meet their recycling obligations and ESG goals with full traceability and audited compliance.
Partnering with brands and government bodies for large-scale recycling initiatives.
Driving India's transition to a true circular economy, where waste becomes a valuable resource.
Our long-term vision is to formalize and digitize India's recycling sector while keeping the informal workforce at its very core.
We imagine a future where recycling isn't an effort, but a habit — woven seamlessly into everyday life.
Featured across leading media, news outlets, and prestigious platforms.
The visionaries behind the scenes.
Driving impact through technology and sustainable recycling, one pickup at a time.
Operations & strategy expert building the backbone of KabadiMan's growth engine.
