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The Science of Dirt (Part 2): High hopes for the scalability of $12 water micro-filters made of natural elements

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part Q&A blog with Chandrasekaran Jayaraman (Chandra), a serial social entrepreneur based in Chennai, India, who’s currently building and selling affordable, electricity-free, maintenance-free water filters made out of clay, sand and sawdust in India. Chandra has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a postgraduate degree in plastics […]

The Science of Dirt (Part 1): Entrepreneur building and selling affordable, electricity-free water filters made with clay, sand and sawdust in India

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part Q&A blog with Chandrasekaran Jayaraman (Chandra), a serial social entrepreneur based in Chennai, India. A “technocrat plastics technologist,” he has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a post-graduate degree in plastics and has 25 years of industrial experience. Among his inventions is a BPA-free feeding bottle […]