Clinton Vaz

Clinton Vaz is the founder of vRecycle, a waste management company in Goa, India. He began composting in 1999 after attending a composting workshop organised by the Goa Foundation, and started vRecycle in 2009. In 2003 he was invited to Sweden to learn how waste was managed there.

He received the 2010 Verodiano Award for Environment Protection and the 2015 Vasundara Environmental Award. In 2011 he was appointed to a Goa government monitoring committee for solid waste management. He writes that he spends a lot of time each year talking to people about their waste, and that his creations are copylefted, free for sharing in non-commercial situations.