Savita Hiremath’s book ‘Endlessly Green’ says why solid waste management is an ethical practice

The author answers a few FAQs on composting

Sometime in 2009, Savita Hiremath, a Bengaluru-based journalist, started reading about solid waste management. Two years later, she formed a zero-waste community in her neighbourhood. She then started talking and blogging about waste management. Her research on the subject continued, too, as she spoke to experts — within and outside India. She has distilled the knowledge and experience gained over a decade into a book, Endlessly Green (Simon & Schuster), hoping to widen the waste management community in India. Savita’s waste management evangelism is not an outcome of an epiphany. She grew up watching her mother practising a zero-waste way of life much before it became a fad among the urban upper-class. It was the memories of her mother, who passed on after battling cancer, that inspired her to practice and propagate this lifestyle. She also gets philosophical about waste in her book: observing our trash cans, she writes, can offer an insight of our life. But where does one start? Here is Savita answering that and a few other FAQs:-