[Project]
Eco Contributions
This one started as a final semester project, and the real challenge I set for myself wasn't "build an app," it was "add value to a system that already has millions of people inside it." Rather than launching something new into a crowded market, I looked at Blinkit and asked what small addition could make the existing experience better for users while actually meaning something for the business too. That became Eco Contributions: a bag return system that turns the brown paper bags piling up in people's homes into wallet credit.
[Problem]
Quick commerce runs on single-use packaging, and there's no loop closing it. The bags just accumulate. I actually started further upstream, thinking about India's garbage disposal problem broadly, or a French-style food grading system to change consumption habits. Both were the right size problem, wrong size solution, nothing I could realistically ship or pitch. What I kept coming back to was smaller and sharper: users already have delivery partners showing up at their door constantly. That's an existing touchpoint nobody was using for anything except dropping off groceries.
[Solution]
Sixty-four survey responses, warehouse interviews, and focus groups all pointed to the same thing: the waste problem here is behavioral, not infrastructural. So the fix rides on infrastructure that already exists. A bag return prompt gets embedded right into the delivery handoff, the user hands bags back to the same delivery partner who just dropped off their order, scans them with their phone camera, gets instant wallet credit. No new hardware, no new app, no behavior change beyond one extra thirty-second step. The strongest part of the pitch was the three-sided incentive: users earn a small credit and get a reason to stay loyal, Blinkit chips away at packaging costs in a business where margins are brutally thin, and it counts toward their sustainability goals.
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