Abhilash Salimath did his schooling at CMR NPS, Bangalore. He then went on to do his Undergrad in Civil Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology. Post this, he completed Masters in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Abhilash was on an internship program with the Stockholm Environment Institute in a village in the Nalanda District of Bihar. He later converted the same into his Master thesis titled- “A Preliminary Study of a Water, Hygiene and Ecological Sanitation Project in a Rural Village in Bihar State of India”.
Having been a lover of the environment since a kid, the experience of working in a Dalit community and building toilets to promote hygiene inspired Abhilash Salimath to start his own company. Being Eco was founded in 2015 and has been successfully helping people convert waste into resources. The company believes in making sustainability sexy!