Sustainability solutions

A workshop 'Turn trash into treasure' on découpage art was recently conducted by Deepika Joshi at park hotel chief guest Chandana Dasari, Zonal Commissioner (West Zone), GHMC.

Deepika is a software professional and founder of 'Ideaovator Solutions Pvt Ltd' and 'Synergy Group' is a social wing and women's group.

She does découpage art which is a Chines art form of decorating an object by gluing coloured paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from purpose-manufactured papers.

Deepika got this idea two years back she says, "I thought provoked in 2017 people died due to Ghazipur landfill slide. I started thinking and researching about how to control waste and recycle to protect environment."

"I have personally seen the Ghazipur landfill which is 60-65 Mts high. It is all man made, so when we made it, we can also control trash by up cycling and recycling. So, I started trying different methods to up-cycles and recycle trash," adds 31-year-old Deepika.

She tried herself by ordering the material online, "I learnt home composting, paper bags, plastic hing pots myself," she says. About 'Synergy group' she says, "It's is a women entrepreneur's group, every enterprise should move towards circular economy and sustainability, we are conducting workshops and creating awareness about circular economy and recycling trash from home and industries. Whereas 'Ideaovator Solutions Pvt Ltd' provide ideas and Business solutions for sustainability."

She says, "Challenge was adopting to eco- friendly and biodegradable products. In my case too it became so difficult for me to stop using single plastic or polythene bag. So, I have upcycled whatever it was there at home and started using newspaper and made temporary paper bags for the requirements."

"Although everyone is aware of pollutants especially plastic it becomes difficult to remove it completely from our lives and adopt to eco- friendly products, which is very challenging for everyone." She adds. In future Deepika wants to provide innovative sustainable solutions and technology solutions to move towards circular economy.