Silverit

Students are building Silverit for India.

Two students in capes flying above an Indian city skyline, holding up the Silverit coin marked with the SilverStar.

The app to turn plastic into garbage money. India’s AI-gen builds Silverit.

Led by their school, students get a project the opportunity to build a real solution. Solution to inspire families to store plastic so that clean plastic can be collected from home.

Then plastic collection will become safe, clean and respectful.

Split scene. On the left a scavenger stands in a polluted drain holding loose plastic packs. On the right a uniformed plastic pickup collector receives a clean bag of household plastic at a family's front door.

Recyclers will be able to employ people to collect clean plastic from our homes, not drains.

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And then the risk of slow poisoning from toxic plastic will reduce.

A blood drop illustration filled with fragments of coloured plastic.

Likely risk signals · Precaution advised · Research ongoing.

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But the challenge is that today plastic has zero value. So families throw it in garbage.

A woman in a modern Indian kitchen lifting the lid of a pull-out bin filled with branded plastic packets.

~24,000crore pieces

Estimated number of branded plastics that will be thrown in garbage by about 40 crore Indian households, in 2026.

The Plastic2GiftCard Challenge logo on a stool, above the brands whose GiftCards students can collect, with a note that these are illustrative and not yet confirmed partners.

Thus, students solve the challenge @ Silverit Bootcamp ’26.

People do not throw money in garbage. So, the students take up the challenge to turn plastic into GiftCards and inspire their family to store its plastic.

  • BUILDWorld's First Home Plastic Tracker
  • GAINNew Age Skills & Knowledge
  • EASY20 Mins / Week Self-paced DIY Challenge
  • WINCertificates & GiftCards up to ₹7,500