Kathmandu, March 4 -- One person's trash is another person's treasure, so goes the old adage, but two women-Ojaswi Baidya and Loonibha Manandhar-seem to have taken this saying to heart. They are co-founders of Tyre Treasure, a company that turns old, used tyres from cars, trucks and buses into recycled furniture.

Baidya and Manandhar come from two very different backgrounds-Environment Science and Business Administration, respectively-but they struck a chord with each other when they met at the 'Greenovation Start-Up Challenge', a competition organised by WWF and the Nepal Entrepreneur Hub, to find innovative ideas that had a sustainable 'green' component to them. Having pitched and listened to various green and progressive ideas during ...