I had just joined the Malibu WhatsApp group (thanks to my lovely neighbour). Group was mostly used to exchange phones with maids.
But before Diwali, some fine lady (I did not know her then), messaged “does anyone compost ?”. That was it. I was so thrilled to read that. Someone knew the word compost. Someone did compost? Post that message, we started talking and meeting and this is how my journey from home composting to trying to bring some change through community composting began.
5 of us kept on meeting and discussing sustainability and what we could do collectively. We kept on refining and we kept on improvising.
First, we started talking about Bio-enzyme. Then we actually made it. Not only that, we even made it available at a community level.
I had been experimenting with composting for 2 years then. How did I get into composting? I had my baby in 2012. Like most women, postpartum struck me and like most women, I did not know it had. It was playing a game with my emotions. But then Pinterest came to my rescue. I started looking for beautiful plant arrangement pics. After some time, composting pics started popping up. I had no idea what it was.
I searched for its video on YouTube. I could find so many videos on it. I thought it was doable and I started with it. First, a plastic bucket, then a few matkas, then Khampa from daily dump them drums from Sampoorna kitchen and now finally rolling drums.
Next, I always wanted to do/try a Garage sale. We always discussed it but could not implement it for one or the other reason. But one of my friends got a lot of stuff from her sister which she wanted to dispose off but did not know how. We were discussing and suddenly we got this idea to try the Garage sale and it was a HIT.
We have done 2 Garage sales till now. We are planning to do it once every month or twice every year ( pre-Diwali and post-Holi) depending on the response we get.
by Rolly (WW34 Ground Floor, 9560917444)
Always so inspiring….kudos👏👏🙏