The main focus of the organisation is to decentralise waste management. The SWMRT has organised several campaigns, such as Swacha Graha, 2 Bin 1 Bag, Trashonomics, etc. It was at a seminar conducted by Srinivasan back in 2007 on Solid Waste Management that the Solid Waste Management Round Table co-founded by Vani Murthy was formed. Even though her first attempt was a horrible failure, a visit to the landfill in Bengaluru forced her to swear that no more of her waste would be sent there. She met waste management expert C Srinivasan, also known as Vellore Srinivasan, at a workshop in Vellore and learned about composting. She was a part of the Wealth Out of Waste programme and not much later, she was going door-to-door giving bags for segregation and collection of wastes so that they could be recycled.
She also involved the kids in her apartment building in collecting and organising recyclable wastes and Sunday campaigns, and weekly roadshows were organised. She was reluctant to meet new people and engage in a community, but that soon changed as she met more and more enthusiastic people who were in the same sphere as her. It all began when she joined the Resident Welfare Association after her kids grew up. “What I am today is completely opposite to what I was.” She calls it a paradigm shift and holds her sustainability-journey responsible for the changes that she is proud of.
“I was a homemaker, a stay-at-home person in the real sense,” she says. Born in Bengaluru, she moved to Hyderabad and came back to Bengaluru after marriage. Growing up, Vani was a shy and quiet kid. You have to showcase things, people capture what they see more than what they hear.” Rather than mere words, Vani believes in the power of in-person demonstrations, which is why since the beginning of her journey, she rolled out several campaigns where she can demonstrate the simplicity of the practices herself: “I love doing demos. With extensive videos on composting tips, instructions and other zero-waste hacks such as bio enzymes and zero-waste recipes, Vani Murthy has become a part of several households which have begun to adopt such sustainable practices in their lives. Vani is a major sustainable and zero-waste influencer with over a hundred thousand followers on Instagram. “That statistics sunk into me,” says Vani Murthy.
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