What do you do with a river full of dumped spiritual flowers? Make a product that gives back. Some 8 million tons of fresh flowers, which are offered in ritual to deities in temples across the country, are dumped into rivers each year in India because they cannot be discarded — it’s considered disrespectful. But many of the blooms are loaded with pesticides and insecticides that enter the river system and harm marine life. Software engineer Ankit Agarwal has developed a nice-smelling solution. |