Gauhar/ Delhi: In today’s time, if you buy a pen anywhere, you will get a plastic pen. There will be only a few places where biodegradable pens can be found. This is a pen that contains almost no plastic, which does not have any effect on the environment. In view of this, Saurabh Mehta, a resident of Delhi, started the startup of this pen in 2018-19 along with his wife Shivani Mehta. After this, he also registered the company in 2021. The company is preparing to launch its biodegradable pen on World Environmental Day on June 5 this year.
Solution using pen and paper
Saurabh told Local18 that the pens made 70 years ago must still be lying somewhere on the earth. No one is paying attention to this and this plastic will increase the amount of non-biodegradable plastic on the earth in the coming years. Seeing this problem, he has created a solution in the form of a paper pen. This pen is made of paper instead of plastic. Barely 5 percent of the pen is useful. Actually this 5 percent is the nib of the pen and its ink. The rest, from the refill to the body of the pen, is all made of plastic, which is equal to 95 percent of the pen.
What was the biggest difficulty
Saurabh told Local18 that he did not face much difficulty while making the paper pen. But when he was making the refill of the pen, he was facing the most difficulty. But then after about 4 years of research, he found a way by which plastic can be removed from the refill as well. He made the refill from paper using a special technique. It has vegetable oil applied on the inner surface, due to which the ink does not come out. This vegetable oil acts as a barrier. This pen looks and works exactly like a regular pen, but the good thing is that the ink does not leak from it.
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Funding of Rs 16 lakh
Saurabh also told that his startup has received a grant of about 16 lakh rupees under the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme run by the Government of India. The company used this money for product development. So far this startup is bootstrapped, but more help will be needed in the coming time. For which he will also raise funding. He wants the big players of this market to also move forward with him in this work, so that he can contribute a little towards the environment and make more biodegradable stationery items and such paper pens.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : May 2, 2024, 13:11 IST