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Go Green!
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
ENVIRONMENT AWARENESS CAMPAIGN: THE FUTURE WE WANT | CASE STUDY
Jan 2013
Environment
Awareness
Campaign: The
Future We Want
| Case Study
June ’12
IMAGE : RIO20+
HERE WE GO!
The future lies in your hands..!
Introduction
Negatives
The Earth has enough to fulfill every one's
need, but not every one's greed...
Due to lack of guidance, we could not follow
it up in significant way. We studied all the
submissions and kept it on our resource Elibrary. We are in search of a good mentor
professor who can guide us wherever
required.
NSS IIT Delhi and Sustainable IIT Delhi came
together this year with a noble initiative of
the rigorous and much talked about
Environment Awareness Campaign which
started from 5th June, 2012 on the special
occasion of World Environment Day.
Workings
The Campaign started with a wonderful case
study/article writing competition spanning
over a period of one month. In this
competition, we presented a set of problem
statements and situations based on some
common environmental issues of our country.
Care was taken so that participants could
directly connect to the problem set and
his/her efforts to do such a deep analysis may
help the society in some way. The
participants were judged on the basis of
innovation, originality of thought, clarity,
quality and ground reality of ideas.
Positives
Good Outreach all over Delhi, off campus
and in Campus! It also attracted few PHD
students, Environment enthusiasts, IIT Delhi &
other college’s professors who will be joining
us in our next semester environment workings
and endeavor.
CELEBRATING INDIAN WILDLIFE WEEK
Jan 2013
Celebrating
Indian
Wildlife
Week
1st Oct’12 - 7 th Oct’12
IMAGE: INDIAN WILDLIFE
HERE WE GO!
Animal Planet, Surprisingly human!
Introduction
NSS & Sustainable IITD over a period of
one week (1st Oct’12 - 7th Oct’12),
organized
several
environment
educational activities with a purpose of
celebrating Indian wildlife week. The
idea was to create awareness among
people about the importance of nature,
biodiversity and how it can be saved and
conserved, learn about the parts of a
tree, the role of trees, and how other
wildlife depend on trees for survival. All
programs were open to public in order to
Participate | Create | Connect | Inspire.
Workings
We had inaugurated the “Celebration of
Indian wildlife week” with a movie
screening followed by plethora of events
on the floor keeping in mind our college
Minor 2 exams progression at the same
time.
Movie Screening(GO VEG!), Photography
cum documentation competition for IITD
Campus Biodiversity Magazine, Online
awareness about Indian endangered
species over social websites, Online
discussion forum, Nature Walk in Campus
dedicated towards awareness of Flora
and Fauna inherited by our Campus and
location of biodiversity information
board across institute were some of the
main events. We received huge number
of biodiversity photographs submissions
by students and IIT Delhi residents.
Progress
Our workings on Campus Biodiversity
magazine and designing of biodiversity
board to be located at different places
across institute are still on. Hopefully,
this project will be over by next two
months.
Positives
Indeed it touched the target audience as
expected but still some more good ideas
could have also been incorporated, but
due to close proximity with minors we
were unable to do that.
Negatives
Online discussion forum was not properly
channelized although we still shot
expected audience
through social
websites. Moreover very few took
interest in discussing things over the
online portal as minor exams were on
progress.
CAMPUS WASTE MANAGEMENT IIT DELHI
Jan 2013
Campus
waste
management
IIT Delhi
Aug-Nov’12
IMAGE: IIT DELHI
HERE WE GO!
Start Small, Start Now…!
Campus Waste Management
We periodically organize campus cleanliness drive
with the motto "Let us keep the Campus Green
and Clean".
Lots of students, Professors, administration and IIT
staff unite together for this grand green initiative.
The area which are usually covered are entire
campus including Neelkanth area, Faculty
Apartments, Guest House, Hostel areas, Workshop,
Biotech Lounge, Nalanda Grounds, SAC & SDA
Subway.
Our campus is found to be cleaner than previous
years. The areas in the back of the hostels which
were raised as a concern sometime back also
showed improvement. But a lot of littering was
observed in the subway, SDA; mainly the muck
(waste) of ice-cream and nearby vendors.
Considering that, we are planning to get a dustbin
established in that area. The vendors have also
been instructed to keep dustbins with themselves.
On Spot Segregation: PET bottles were being
collected in a separate polybag in each region.
These collected PET bottles have been sent to a
plastic recycling firm; Gurgaon based enterprise.
Apart from the above, we are still on execution
and planning stage for efficient and quality Campus
waste management, completing our homework and
seeking guidance all around with an aim of Zero
Waste Management.
POSTER COLLECTION DRIVE
Jan 2013
Poster
Collection
Drive
Sept-Nov’12
IMAGE: RENDEZVOUS 2012
HERE WE GO!
Money grows on trees: Recycle Paper!
Introduction
Progress
This is one of our Environment Team
voluntarily initiatives towards Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle of Paper wastes at our IITD Campus.
Presently, we have only focused on our first
hit towards all Institute and hostel notice
boards. The posters being used for publicity
and sharing information all across are
collected after it expiry date for variety of
purpose. We will soon expand our workings
further in paper wastage further letting this
PCD success as our platform to leap upon.
As usual, we will carry forward with this
scheme, and try to find the best possible uses
for these collected posters. All the posters are
collected at the end of the month from each
hostel and accumulated at one place. There
are various ways of re-usage of outdated
posters at campus like Using back side of the
poster for flashing the other notices again,
Using blank back side of poster for painting
and sketching workshop conducted by NSS IITD
Teaching project, Sending posters to NAB
(National association for Blind) for its brail
conversion and a lot more...
Workings
We collected outdated posters all across the
institute and hostel areas for various social
and environmental purposes focusing on
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle of these posters
which previously were being dumped up or
sold to Kawadi wala without any proper
environmental considerations. We installed a
collection system in every hostel and institute
areas and got huge amount of posters
collected every week. We carried forward this
project on trial basis for three months(Sep,
Oct, Nov'12) which included general college
schedule, our biggest cultural fests of India
(Speranza, Literati, Rendezvous) etc. In total
we have collected around 6000 posters so far
where each poster printing cost around
Rs. 20/- Further analysis has been done over
the PCD Project Report & documentation.
Positives
Indeed it’s a great Success! We need to make
this solution sustainable throughout by
installation of E-notice boards and E-posters
usage across the institute.
A good
cooperation and appreciation by students,
institute and hostel staff were availed.
Negatives
Since these all things are our self-initiative,
and collecting posters by student basis is not
the correct way, the administration should
look into it. Since collection and trial re-use
of these collected posters during Rendezvous
time required a lot of voluntary effort, efforts
need to be put in to reduce student
dependency of this scheme.
The illustration says it all. It's ironical that
most of us show concern at the cost of our own
cause. Sad but true.
GREEN RENDEZVOUS & PET BOTTLES COLLECTION DRIVE
Jan 2013
2
Green
Rendezvous &
PET Bottles
Collection
Drive
19-22 Oct’12
IMAGE: RENDEZVOUS 2012
HERE WE GO!
THE ENVIRONMENT, AS WE SEE IT…
Introduction
With a budget of more than 50 lakhs, more
than 400 participating colleges, performance
by ace stars, Rendezvous is an event full of
Grandeur, Competition and Glamour. In these
bright lights and loud sounds, nature’s plea
for a sustainable development goes unheard.
We, as Sustainable IITD and NSS IITD have
tried best to contribute our small bit to a
greener Rendezvous by our initiatives toward
Campus waste management and recycling pet
bottles which would otherwise land up in
landfills or in hands of people who sell
spurious stuff.
Workings
A new waste management technique for PET
bottles has been installed in IITD campus
during Rendezvous. Most plastic bottles (colddrink and water bottles) are made of
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET).You can
easily identify a PET plastic by their unique
code, a resin identification code number "1"
inside the universal recycling symbol, usually
located on the bottom of the container.
Activities covered:
Launching RDV’12 Green initiative by IIT Delhi
Director, Prof. R. K. Shevgaonkar addressing
around 7000 people in OAT, IIT Delhi.
For environment workouts, RDV appointed 10
RDV'12 Environment Ac-heads from our green
team under Environment Committee, RDV'12
with ALL PASS ENTRY.
Reuse of Posters collected in Poster Collection
drives, using its back blank side for spreading
environment message, instructions etc.
Flashing video Teaser and Environment
message, instructions in LCD screens installed
all across institute and also in College movie
screening
Hall
(Dogra
Hall)
during
intermissions, initial and endings. Here is the
link
to
the
official
video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2RbsKuR
tzQ&feature=share
We installed so many cartoons at different
important places for handling general waste
management, later on it was collected by
Cleaning staff, IIT Delhi.
We in collaboration with a plastic recycling
firm; Gurgaon based enterprise installed 4-5
big PET BOTTLES COLLECTION BOX at most
prominent places during those times like OAT,
Library food stalls and near SBI Bank stalls.
Some extra collection boxes for Pet bottles
were kept at different locations like FX to
ensure the same.
With proper management and pitching for PET
bottles, they were collected specifically in
those BOXES and each night bottles were
gathered at a place and boxes were refilled
with new filler. We collected around 1500
plastic bottles which have been sent for
recycling.
Positives
Indeed a great Success! We need to make this
solution sustainable by permanent installation
of PET Bottles collection Box followed by
periodical collection and recycle. A good
cooperation and appreciation by students,
institute and hostel staff were availed.
Negatives
Due to less manpower and solely students’
initiative, it was indeed a very challenging,
treacherous job for us handling lakhs of crowd
present at IIT Delhi campus during those days.
We need more guidance from the experts,
administrative support and motivation from
the ideals to sustain this solution. Due to
excessive use of plastics, crackers etc. this
Rendezvous could not become ideally “green”
but we hope the next time it would be.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013
NEW YEAR'S GREEN INITIATIVE: GREEN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN IITD
Wish you a very happy and green New Year’13.
We have designed an Environment T-shirt
with an aim to wear each Friday and
celebrate as Environment day. In order
to aware people, make them realize and
show concern towards mother earth,
nature and our campus biodiversity.
These T-shirts can be bought from IITD
SCOOPS with minimal cost.
You can also wear and support the noble
cause in our each & every environment
activity and workout.
Let’s make a New Year’13 resolution
with us.
Pledge with us.
I PLEDGE, TO PROTECT THE EARTH, AND TO RESPECT THE WEB OF LIFE UPON IT AND TO HONOR
THE DIGNITY OF EVERY MEMBER OF OUR GLOBAL FAMILY. ONE PLANET, ONE PEOPLE, ONE
WORLD IN HARMONY WITH PEACE, JUSTICE AND FREEDOM FOR ALL.
Jan 2013
Thank you!
Find us live at:
NSS IIT Delhi | www.nssiitd.in
Sustainable IIT Delhi | sustainable.iitd.ac.in
Credits - Author, Chief Editor & designer: Sidharth Ranjan and Special Thanks to Jyoti Jain and Revant Soni.