CAMPUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
Key impacts of improper solid waste management are depicted in the infographic.
- Waste management is very important in today’s life as its directly impacts the environment and reduces green house gas emissions and improves the public health and quality of air and water.
- It should be practiced since very beginning of anyone’s life especially in academic institutions. So that the learners can adopt and accept easily and implement same in future.
- Cleaner the surroundings, cleaner the city and clean city makes clean and green India.
- Waste management refers to the processes involved in managing wastes from its inception to its grave or recycling and transforming and reusing.
- Improperly managed solid waste can have serious environmental consequences. It can contaminate the air, soil and water.
- Effective solid waste management helps reduce the amount of waste.
- Reducing waste will not only protect the environment but will also save on costs for disposal and will minimise the work of municipality.
- Waste can be recycled if collected and managed efficiently.
- Efficient waste management requires proper waste segregation and using different recycling and resource recovery methods.
As an awareness to environmental responsibility, Vikas College, Vikhroli East, Mumbai is having an eco-friendly proper Wet Waste Management System supported by/in association with
- NGO-SMS-Stree Mukti Sanghatna, Chembur, Mumbai
- BMC-Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation and
- MPCB-Maharashtra Pollution Control Board
Some of the special features of WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM of our College are:
- Our wet waste (food and organic wastes) in our campus is managed by segregating the biodegradable wet waste through our student volunteers and college cleaning staff (Smt. Ramila).
- Each classroom is installed with two different coloured bins, GREEN (for biodegradable wet waste) and BLUE (for non-biodegradable waste).
- Canteen food and vegetable wastes was also collected from pre-installed GREEN bins.
- Campus garden leaves and old used flowers are collected and segregated by cleaning staff.
- All are placed in a composting pit and using a proper technology and monitoring by our team we transform them into biofertilizer. This is used in our campus potted plants.
- The segregation of wet waste from the college campus has minimized municipal waste generation and is helpful in maintaining our campus as a clean, green and zero waste generation and its management.
- Therefore, we managed our campus wet waste, recycled and use it. This is how our campus is now ZERO WASTE CAMPUS.