
Inc. recognizes Svanika Balasubramanian, co-founder and CEO of rePurpose Global, on its 2024 Female Founders 250 list — for taking on global plastic pollution and growing revenue by 150 percent from 2022 to 2023. The profile spotlights a founder who built rePurpose from the ground up after researching the impact of the illegal waste trade on marginalized communities in the Global South, and who has since grown it into a platform working with over 500 brands to recover plastic that would otherwise leak into nature.



