With her eco-friendly mattresses, Lakshmi Menon aimed resolve two pressing issues – waste management and lack of bedding at many COVID centres
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During a trip to Bengaluru, eco-innovator Lakshmi Menon came across a gut-wrenching sight. A family was asleep under a bridge, and the baby, who had no clothes on, was sleeping on sand.
“I felt terrible for the baby,” she says and adds, “I wanted to do something in my own capacity. As a designer, I’ve always felt that it’s my social responsibility to find neat solutions for the problems we encounter daily.”
It was here that the idea of ‘Shayya’ (which means ‘mattress’ in Sanskrit) came about. The eco-friendly mattress aims to resolve two pressing issues – waste management and lack of bedding at many Covid centres. “Just like the baby didn’t have a mattress to lie on, FLTCs (First Line Treatment Centres for COVID-19) were facing a shortage of mattresses,”…