From the profile of the Hyderabad-based Ramky Group's waste management unit. For all his global ambitions, Rami Reddy, 45, knows his biggest strength is India, simply because REEL (Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd) is a leading provider of integrated environmental and waste management infrastructure in a country whose industries and urban landscape generate huge amounts of waste with very few organised players to handle it. There is no inventory of waste streams or estimation of market size, government policies have developed in fits and starts, the enforcement mechanism is weak and awareness exists only in pockets of corporate India. Even so, REEL has big names like Sun Pharma, Mahindra & Mahindra and Alfa Laval as its clients, and handles everything from paint sludge, oil-soaked materials and expired chemicals to sludge from effluent treatment plants. Here's its scale: REEL operates 11 hazardous-waste management facilities in India, 16 hospital-waste management facilities, inc...