Hyderabad: Meet Sahithi Snigdha Bhupathiraju, a sustainable lifestyle practitioner from Hyderabad who left her corporate career to join the environmental revolution.
The story of Sahithi goes back to her years of study when she noticed piles of rubbish, especially plastic lying around every day. This has led to his focus on sustainability in the environment.
This graduate electronics engineer is studying green technologies and sustainability in Southern California. After gaining knowledge in renewable energy and green building certificates, she returned to India three years ago and has since become Waste Ventures India, a social waste management company, moving the country’s solid waste sector to models that simultaneously environmental and is financially sustainable. .
Since then, she and her team have changed the paradigms in solid waste management.
‘Although I’m an engineering student, I did not want to settle in the software field, but I want to help me improve the environment. I wanted to contribute to the waste management space here. We join hands with corporate enterprises, closed communities, educational institutions and also waste pickers to provide solutions for recycling and composting. We collect low-value plastic at waste pickers and earn more income for it. It helps divert waste from landfills, ‘says Sahithi, adding that they have also worked with municipalities and gram panchayats to set up waste-zero centers where dry waste is collected for recycling and food waste is composted and added to organic farmers sold, while rejected waste was incinerated.
In recent times, there has been a tremendous increase in waste generation due to the boom in e-commerce that has finally landed in a landfill. There was an explosion in such debris during the lock-up, she adds.
Since late 2013, Waste Ventures India has repelled more than 3,000 tons of waste from landfills in the country. The company also offers a recyclable digital capture service on the doorstep. However, she feels that much remains to be done to keep society environmentally friendly.
Seeking the government’s support in the strict application of the rules for the management of solid waste, she says: “Segregation of dry, wet and rejected waste in every household and its collection is very important. Recently, the Minister of MA & UD, KT Rama Rao, launched Swachh cars that collect dry and wet waste separately. I hope to see more infrastructure at gram panchayat and municipality level and set up public-private partnerships for waste management infrastructure. ”
Sahithi hopes to see Hyderabad as the cleanest city in India by 2025. “I will work hard to make it happen,” she notes.
Source: Telangana Today