Catalyzing transformative change towards a circular economy that delivers impact and returns. We drive this by enabling ecosystems that formalize waste management and elevate the environment, livelihoods, health, and human dignity. We promote resource efficiency and circular economy by enabling urban mining of secondary raw materials.
As an ecosystem builder we call on local NGOs, businesses, and value chain stakeholders to enroll for the ACES program that builds awareness and capacity to design and implement waste ecosystems that balance impact and returns.
We offer partnership for viable projects, technical backstopping, collaborations and investments across the value chain.
Join our "follow-the-waste-trail" exercises across selected urban clusters. These visits include interactions with informal collectors, aggregators, dismantlers, and formal recyclers to trace actual waste flows from households and businesses to final processing sites. Insights are further enriched through consultations with municipal officials, regulatory bodies, and digital governance experts.
This multi-layered field engagement helps validate assumptions, surface undocumented practices, and inform the design of user-centric workflows and compliance mechanisms for implementing circular economy initiatives.
...and several multilateral and grassroots organizations.
ACES is an accelerator focused on transforming the recycling of e-waste, batteries, plastics, tyres, and end-of-life vehicles through inclusive and integrated solutions. We bridge the gap between policy, material flows, skills, finance, technology, and grassroots action.
We nurture micro-entrepreneurs in the recycling ecosystem, supporting their transition into structured, sustainable businesses that drive decent livelihoods and circularity at scale.
By building on shared infrastructure and data interoperability, we integrate informal and fragmented supply chain actors into formal value chains. Mobile technology maps, digitizes, and connects decentralized material flows, ensuring traceability, efficiency, and inclusion. The platform links government, industry, and communities to co-create scalable circular economy solutions.
ACES is the flagship initiative of Frametrics Consulting and Datamuse LLC, bringing together deep domain expertise in circular economy, systems change, and blended finance.
Frametrics Consulting, founded in 2004 as a research organization, has specialized in waste management and circular economy systems since 2006.
It began by supporting the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) on waste interventions in airfield towns and has since delivered key assignments for GIZ, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), and institutions such as the Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), MAIT, and NIELIT.
Frametrics has played a pivotal role in developing e-waste clusters and initiatives to formalize informal waste actors across India. It's work spans partnerships with government bodies, recyclers, industry associations, and civil society to advance resource efficiency and systemic change.
Datamuse LLC is a systems-change firm that facilitates local solutions through collective learning, systems thinking, and adaptive change approaches.
It integrates innovative financing with ecosystem-based program design to support scalable, impact-driven initiatives across climate, circular economy, agriculture, and public service delivery in diverse country contexts.
Chief of Circularity Impact
The realm of possibilities in electronic waste holds immense potential—but unlocking it demands a deeply specialized and grounded supply chain approach. With over a decade of hands-on experience implementing e-waste value chains and advising governments and the private sector on policy, Gautam brings practical insights and innovations to shape scalable, high-impact solutions at ACES.
Systems Orchestrator
Amitaksha brings a systems change approach by aligning multiple moving parts to create the enabling conditions for our impact and return model in circularity. He develops metrics and articulates value propositions to spark interest from public, private, and ecosystem partners, mobilizing materials, capital, and collaboration.
Ecosystem Capacity Steward
Priyanka makes things happen. A trusted partner to ecosystem stakeholders, she leads training and capacity-building efforts across the board. At ACES, she is spearheading the first-ever Ewaste recycling digital training module in partnership with the government and serves as an advisor on various forums, shaping critical educational and capacity-building programs.
Tech-For-Impact Alchemist
Driving digital infrastructure to scale last-mile delivery, he brings a unique blend of physics, philosophy, technology, and global digital delivery experience to reimagine ACES' digital architecture. His approach ensures the platform is not only technically robust but also designed to unlock ACES' impact goals, enabling traceability, inclusion, and efficiency across circular economy ecosystems.
Full Stack Designer
He leads ground-up research on user needs and behaviors, maps value chains, and translates real-world requirements into digital solutions. A hands-on developer with open-source expertise, he is driving the development of ACES' analytical and visualization technologies that power our digital services.
Digital Ethics & Ecosystem Integrity
She ensures privacy, intellectual property rights, and contractual safeguards across our digital delivery processes—protecting the ecosystem we serve. Her work sharpens our awareness of both risks and opportunities, enabling alignment with evolving policies in the circular economy sector.