Bengaluru, May 27, 2026: Neo San has announced the launch of “SafeDispose Bengaluru”, an initiative focused on on-site sanitary and biomedical waste processing across institutions in Bengaluru. The initiative is being implemented in collaboration with the Greater Bengaluru Authority and supported under a programme led by the World Economic Forum.
The Bengaluru-based clean-technology company was selected as a strategic partner under the Yes/Bengaluru Urban Innovation Challenge by UpLink, the World Economic Forum’s early-stage innovation platform. As part of the programme, Neo San will deploy its patented Neo-X smart bins across schools, colleges, women’s hostels, healthcare centres, and government institutions in the city over the coming months.
According to the company, the Neo-X units are designed to process sanitary and biomedical waste at the point of generation through controlled thermal treatment. The systems include real-time IoT monitoring to track waste processing cycles and data generation for urban planning and compliance purposes.
The initiative aims to address challenges linked to open waste burning, manual waste handling, and the lack of certified disposal systems for sanitary and biomedical waste in urban areas. Neo San said the first phase of the deployment is expected to reach more than 5,000 women across Bengaluru.
The programme is being implemented through collaboration with organisations including United Way Bengaluru, Deloitte, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Salesforce and SAP, along with the Government of Karnataka and several ecosystem partners.
The company stated that the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has reviewed and validated the technology for deployment across the city. The initiative also plans to conduct source segregation workshops and generate compliance data under the Solid Waste Management Rules 2026.
Dhwaj Bagrecha, Founder, Neo San said, “Waste infrastructure has a large gap nobody talks about. The third stream - sanitary, biomedical, contaminated reject-waste - is generated daily with no certified on-site disposal route. The most common outcome is open-burning at low temperatures or dumping, since it has no economic incentive for material recovery. This creates some serious air quality challenges around our cities, polluting water bodies and soil-health without check. More so, sanitation workers handle this waste manually, causing an invisible spread of health risks for them and others. SafeDispose Bengaluru is what closing that gap actually looks like in practice. Through this initiative, our aim is the on-site treatment of this waste, in a controlled manner, eliminating open burning and reducing overall process emissions by 98%. This is the first step of a much larger deployment in India, something we’ve been building quietly for years.”
Neo San currently operates more than 200 waste-processing machines across India through managed service contracts, including deployments at organisations such as SAP India, Taj Hotels, Airtel, Royal Enfield and Embassy Group.
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