WORKING TOWARDS A ZERO WASTE CAMPUS AT PONDICHERRY ENGINEERING - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

WORKING TOWARDS A ZERO WASTE CAMPUS AT PONDICHERRY ENGINEERING COLLEGE Presented to Dr. Prithiviraj and PEC administrators by PondyCAN!

Pondicherry Engineering College (PEC) is blessed with a large, beautiful campus, situated on the Bay of Bengal, with an esteemed faculty and talented student body.

However, PEC is plagued by problems of badly managed solid waste. Everywhere you go on this beautiful campus, you see piles of garbage.

Sometimes the garbage is burning..

PondyCAN! and Seeds of Change Pondy Citizens' Action Network or PondyCAN! is a broad based, non-profit organization committed to preserving and enhancing the natural, social, cultural and spiritual environment, and to promoting a holistic approach to the development of this region which has as its focus the happiness and well-being of its citizens. Seeds of Change (SoC) is a student-centred environmental awareness program for young people in the Puducherry region. This PondyCAN program aims to bring about much- needed change in society by inspiring students to develop and spread an ethos of civic consciousness and environmental awareness through programs and activities.

Working towards a ZERO WASTE CAMPUS In September, 2011, PEC and a SoC team joined hands to work together towards better management of PEC’s solid waste. AIM: to address the present waste management policies, implementation and associated issues at PEC campus and develop a Zero Waste Campus program which can serve as an effective model for other schools and institutions in the Puducherry region and beyond.

Objectives Review existing waste management practices; • Conduct a waste audit to assess waste minimization opportunities and to measure • the amount of waste generated at the institution; Characterize the mixed waste stream for assessing recycling potential; • Develop an action plan for improving the existing waste management practices; • Develop a strategy to deal with special wastes, include hazardous and health care • waste; and Organize outreach activities to promote environmental awareness among the • Campus community.

Steps already taken 1) Review of existing waste management practices. We have conducted extensive field visits, direct observation, and interactions with key stakeholders in order to determine what is currently being done at PEC in terms of waste collection, transportation, and disposal facilities; 2) Held orientation meetings with students about the need for solid waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and green purchasing; 3) Formed groups of volunteers to organize and lead the solid audit; and 4) Conducted solid waste audit in the following sectors: Commercial, Residential and Food Services, and Health Center.

Interactive Section with Students

Following are the waste audit results for: • The Ponlait tea shop; • 1 boys’ hostel including dry hostel waste, dry kitchen waste, and compostable kitchen waste; • The campus Health Center

Name of the service sector: Ponlait Milk Shop Total Number of people using this service/day = 454 Number of units generated (Volume) Quantity Material Per Avarage Waste generated per Sl.No Name of the materials used (unit) Unit Weight SM.1 S.M. 2 S.M. 3 S.M. 4 S.M. 5 volume day (Weight) Date 6/2/2012 8/3/2012 12/3/2012 15/3/12 21/3/2012 1 Stick Ice Cream (Plastic, LDPE) 40ml 2.5 3 18 15 5 10 10 25.0000 2 Ice candy (Plastic, LDPE) 60ml 2 5 4 5 10 5 6 12.0000 3 Ice cream Cup (Plastic, LDPE) 90ml 7 10 10 5 15 10 10 70.0000 4 Ice cream Cup (Plastic, LDPE) 125ml 10 3 6 3 7 5 5 50.0000 5 Kulfi (Plastic, LDPE)) 70ml 2.5 18 18 16 16 18 17 42.5000 6 Ball ice cream (Plastic, HDPE) 125ml 5 3 2 1 2 2 10.0000 7 Lessi Cup 125ml 7.5 12 14 10 8 17 12 90.0000 8 Curd Cup 100ml 7.5 4 3 4 1 8 4 30.0000 9 Curd Cup 200ml 10 14 2 8 4 5 7 70.0000 10 Badam Power packet (Plastic) 120ml 1 14 8 20 12 9 13 13.0000 11 Butter Milk Packet (Plastic) 200ml 5 17 24 21 19 14 19 95.0000 12 Coffe Power Packet (Plastic) 50g 1 48 57 67 40 36 50 50.0000 13 Milk Packet (Plastic) 500ml 10 72 57 58 56 65 62 620.0000 14 Cone cream (Paper) 100g 2 20 13 16 11 17 15 30.0000 15 Plasti spoon 1.5 46 43 30 35 47 40 60.0000 16 Coffe Cup (Paper) 120ml 4 48 57 67 40 36 50 200.0000 17 Milk Cup (Paper) 120ml 4 33 94 34 37 27 45 180.0000 18 Milk Peda (Paper Box) 50g 5 21 14 9 7 14 13 65.0000 19 Milk Peda (Paper Box) 100g 10 35 45 8 12 18 23 230.0000 20 Energy Drink (Glass Bottle) 200ml 150 56 63 15 70 55 51 7650.0000 Total 9.6 Kg

Resource Recovery Potential of Ponlait Waste Quantity/day (Weight. Kg) Percentage Recyclable (Weight. Kg) NonRecyclables (Weight.Kg) PAPER .700g 8% .700g Nil PLASTIC 1.230Kg 12% 1.180Kg .50g GLASS 7.650Kg 80% 7.650Kg Nil Total 9.600Kg PAPER Quantity/day (Composition) 7% PLASTIC 9 8 13% 7 6 5 NonRecyclables (Weight.Kg) 4 7.65 Recyclable (Weight. Kg) GLASS 3 80% 2 0.5 1 1.18 0.7 0 PAPER PLASTIC GLASS

Service Sector (Ponlait)- Waste Audit COLLECTING SALES DETAILS BOTTLES BURNED IN CANAL

Material Flow Analysis – Ponlait Segregated Individual Items from mixed stream Collected Materials from dustbin Recording the Weight of Individual Items

Hostel name: Varalli (Hostel -A) Total Student: 237 Non- Singal rooms = 116, Triple rooms = 26, Double rooms = 2 Recyclable 6 7 6.5.90g Generated Generated Styrofoam 0.5 0.5 0.5.07g waste, waste, Average/ Silver coated Items/ weight-Kg weight-Kg week Avarge/day packaging 5.5 6.5 680g Meterial type (7,days) (7,days) (Kg) Weight (Kg) Rubber 3 4 3.5.50g Paper 47 43 456.40Kg Recyclable 47 43 456.40Kg Textile/ Fabric 6 8 71kg White paper 8 6.5 71Kg Metal 3 3 3.40g Office Paper 5 5.5 5.70g Glasses 4 6 5.70g Cardboard 3 1.5 2.30g Compostable 64 63 639Kg Carrybag& Food and containers 5 5 5.70g snacks 5 3 4.50g Magazines& Garden waste 35 42 385.40Kg Catalogues 7 6 6.51Kg Silt, soil, mud 24 18 213Kg News papers 10.5 9.5 101.40Kg Sanitory Paper cups, waste .30kg plates 0.5 0.5 0.5.07g tissue paper brown papers 8 8.5 81.10g Sanitary Carbon paper 0 0 0 0 napkins Plastic 14.5 17 15.52.20kg Hazadous .20kg Recyclable 8.5 10 91.20Kg Cleaning PETE 1.5 2 1.5.20kg products. HDPE 2 3 2.5.35kg Solid waste generated/day PVC 1 0.5 0.5.07g 18Kg/day LDPE 3 3.5 3.50.50g PP 0.5 0.5 0.5.07g PS 0.5 0.5 0.5.07g

Hostel waste – Recyclables chart Recyclable (K.g) Non Recyclable (K.g) Paper 6.4 0 Plastic 1.2 0.9 Rubber 0.5 0.2 Textile/ Fabric 1 0 Metal 0.4 0 Glasses 0.7 0.5 Compostable 9 0 Sanitary waste 0.3 0.3 Hazardous 0.2 0.2 RRP of Hostel waste 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 Non Recyclable (K.g) 2 Recyclable (K.g) 1 0

Quantification of Boys Hostel residential Waste

DRY WASTE COMPOSITION - SERVICE SECTOR WASTE (FOOD SERVICES) Number of units generated Waste Sl.N Type of the Material Per Average generated/ o Product & Material container Unit Weight Day1 Day2 Day3 Day4 Day5 Day6 Day7 unit day(K.g) 1 Rice Bag Plastic (PP) 100g 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 .300 2 Soya bottle Glass (Black) 400g 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .400 3 Sauce bottle Plastic (HDPE) 500g 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .500 4 Tea container Paper 20g 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 .80 5 Milk Cover Plastic 5g 105 105 105 105 105 105 105 105 .520 6 Salt Cover Plastic(LDPE) 1g 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 .5 7 Kadalamazu Plastic(LDPE) 5g 0 0 0 0 28 14 0 6 .30 8 vinegar bottle Plastic (HDPE) 20g 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 .40 9 Appalam cover Paper 2g 12 12 12 12 12 12 0 10 .20 10 Ghee bottle Plastic (PET) 20g 6 6 3 3 6 6 6 5 .100 11 Asafetida powder Plastic (HDPE) 10g 6 6 4 4 6 6 6 6 .60 12 Coffee power Plastic(LDPE) 2g 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 .5 13 Kasseri powder Plastic (HDPE) 10g 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .10 14 Noodles cover Plastic(LDPE) 2g 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 2 .5 15 Masala wrapper Plastic(LDPE) 10g 35 35 22 24 35 42 42 33 .330 16 Wheat powder packet Plastic(LDPE) 15g 14 0 14 0 14 14 0 8 .120 17 Mytha powder packet Bread cover 15g 0 0 20 0 20 0 0 6 .90 18 Bread cover Bread cover - 50 micron 0 0 60 60 0 0 0 17 .10 19 Butter Packet Paper 5g 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 3 .15 20 Oil tin Metal 500g 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 below 50 21 Juice cover Plastic(LDPE) micron 220 0 460 0 0 0 0 97 .50 22 Jam Bottle 200g 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 3 .600 23 Ice Cream Cup Paper 5g 235 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 .170 24 Mixed Paper Paper .200 25 Ice Cream Container cardboard box 100g 5 1 .100 Total 5.760kg

Composition and Resource Recovery Potential of Food Sector Wastes Quantity/day (Weight. Kg) Percentage Recyclable (Weight. Kg) Non Recyclables (Weight. Kg) PAPER .460g 9% .460g Nil PLASTIC 2.300Kg 39% 2 Kg .300g GLASS 1Kg 18% 1Kg Nil METAL 2 Kg 34% 2 Kg Nil Total 5.760 Kg Generated/day (K.g) RRP of Food sector dry waste 3 PAPER 2.5 8% METAL 2 35% 1.5 Non Recyclabe Recyclable PLASTIC 1 40% 0.5 GLASS 17% 0 PAPER PLASTIC GLASS METAL

Segregation and Quantification of Dry Waste from Food Sector

Backyard Disposal of Recyclables