Kathmandu, Aug. 17 -- Growing up in New Road, one of Kathmandu's busiest shopping hubs, Nasana Bajracharya watched her neighbourhood change around her.

Stores that once sold food, electronics, and other goods gradually became clothing shops. By the time she finished school, she remembers seeing clothes almost everywhere she looked.

It left her with a question. "Who wears these many clothes?" she wondered. And if people were buying so much, what happened to everything they no longer wore?

During the second year of her BBA, she participated in a startup idea competition. When asked to come up with a business idea, textile upcycling was the first thing that came to her.

That idea eventually became Re-Kriti.

Four years into its work, Re-...