Tars Deconstructing imposter.
We make plantable paper out of the stuff Kathmandu throws away, and we run the kind of workshops we wished we'd had: for youth, women and queer students who already know how to build things.
Paper is the easiest waste to save. We keep burying it anyway.
Kathmandu Valley throws out more than 1,200 tonnes of waste a day. Paper is 10 to 17 percent of that, but only about 18% ever gets recovered by informal kabadiwalas. The rest gets mixed with food scraps at home, buried at Banchare Danda, and slowly turns into methane. That's a gas 28 times more potent than CO₂.
When landfill strikes happen, that same paper gets burned with plastics and feeds the winter smog everyone in the Valley ends up breathing. And here's the strange part: paper is one of the most profitable materials in the scrap market. We're basically throwing money into a poisoned pit.
Close two loops at the same time: paper and power.
Paper that grows back
We take paper that would have ended up in the landfill and turn it into handmade sheets with local seeds pressed inside. When you're done using it, put it in soil. Water it. Something grows.
Deconstructing imposter
Entrepreneurship shouldn't feel like a private club you weren't invited to. Our workshops are built for youth, women and queer students first, because Nepal's economy already runs on their work.
Locally sourced
From PK Campus to Kathmandu University and Ramechhap, we work with local paper factories, kabadiwalas, and the students who will actually keep this going.
Two campuses. Two days each.
Climate Entrepreneurship
We walk through the scope, share a few case studies, and try some design thinking together. Then we introduce the product and open it up for questions.
Make · Paint · Pitch
Product demonstration, art-based Matka painting, and a student-led pitching competition.
An Action at Home group. Entrepreneurship, on our terms.
Host a workshop. Stock a stall. Plant a page.
We're looking for campus partners, stalls at events, and people who want to help move paper from the trash bin to the recycling bin. And power from where it usually sits, to where it should.