We collect millions of sacred flowers offered in the temples of India and employ 300+ women from marginalized communities to upcycle these flowers into the world's first certified, handcrafted incense products.

Jul 20, 2021 · In India, the fragrance of sacred flowers has inspired Ankit Agarwal. To avoid the pollution of the Ganges from floral waste discarded by temples, this scientist came up with the idea of recycling it into incense sticks and cones and creating jobs for marginalized women.

Phool is an Indian biomaterials startup co-founded by Ankit Agarwal and Prateek Kumar in 2017 [1] to collect temple flower waste dumped in rivers in Kanpur. [2][3] It use flowers from temples across India's and create useful products such as rose incense cone, Phool vermicompost.

Jan 1, 2025 · Phool collects waste flowers thrown into the Ganges and turns them into a range of products including incense sticks, scented candles, essential oils, diffusers and candleholders. The start-up employs 347 women.

Mar 23, 2025 · Phool aims to solve the flower-temple-waste problem. It collects tonnes of floral waste from temples, which is handcrafted into charcoal-free incense, organic vermicompost, and biodegradable packaging material through their ‘flowercycling’ technology.

Mar 18, 2022 · Kanpur-based Phool.co collects floral waste from the temples & mosques in UP, preventing floral waste and toxic chemicals from getting into the river Ganges daily. This waste is handcrafted by rural women self-help groups into patented organic fertilizer and …

Aug 28, 2020 · India’s IAN Fund and Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation back circular economy company Phool.co, which employs marginalised women to turn discarded temple flowers into luxury incense products.

Nov 25, 2023 · Phool was born out of a mission to give millions of tons of waste flowers a new life. About 8 million tons of floral waste gets dumped in Indian water bodies every year. The team figured out a...

Dec 27, 2022 · Phool.co is an incense sticks startup — where incense is extracted from flower waste in the rivers. Incense sticks are burnt in temples and homes to spread good smell. As opposed to other...

Apr 6, 2022 · Phool.co, founded in 2017 by Agarwal and Prateek Kumar, claims to be India’s first biomaterial startup and fragrance-focused health business, producing patented organic fertilizer and incense sticks from floral waste.