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rmblue - From March 2020, Mr Prashant Singh, founder of Singapore startup Blue Planet tied up with India's biggest landfill biominer Zigma to reclaim Pallikarnai, Chennai city's biggest landfill and restore the eco-sensitive marshland. 

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Blue Planet co-founder Prashant Singh (left) with Zigma director K. T. Illangovan. Blue Planet and Zigma are biomining the eco-sensitive Pallikarnai Marshland in Chennai.

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- Situated at the edge of a 91ha landfill in the South Indian city of Chennai, Blue Planet Environmental Solutions’ start-up office might be the world’s most unglamorous.

But it is hard not to notice how the mountains of rotting garbage, stinking rivulets of toxic leachate, scampering dogs and vultures circling in the sky disappear as one approaches the Singapore waste management company. 

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