ISB

ZERO WASTE
CAMPUS
PROJECT
An initiative by Class of 2018
 GETTING THE
WHAT AND WHY
OUT OF THE WAY
BEWARE: Slightly text heavy. Promise, no heavy text beyond this
section! :D
Q: What Waste Are We
Talking About?
The technical term were referring to is Municipal
Solid Waste. This consists of the everyday objects
you discard paper cups, toilet paper, vegetable
peels, sanitary napkins, dead batteries, last
nights empty pizza boxes, empty beer bottles,
well you get the drift..
Look inside your dustbins (all of them!) to know
what were talking about.
Q: Why Is It Such a Big Deal?
The Housekeeping Folks Do a
Wonderful Job Of Taking the
Trash Away Everyday.

Door-to-door collection of waste is just the beginning of the

journey of your waste. Did you know your waste is hauled
into compactor trucks (the big trucks carrying the citys
garbage, leaking of some stinky liquid) and then taken 40kms
away to a dumpyard in Jawaharnagar where it joins 5,000
tonnes of waste from around the city every single day?
This waste decomposes, or worse, burns in hazardous
conditions, choking nearby villages with toxic fumes.
Q: Thats Horrible! Why
Doesnt The Government Do
Anything?
Point taken! Theres a lot the Government can do. As a baby
step, check out the latest Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) 2016
Rules. Theyre super detailed and extremely well thought
out.

But theres also a lot that it cannot do.

It has been proven time and again by waste management
scientists that source segregation (putting your
dry/wet/sanitary/reject wastes into separate dustbins at
home while you discard your waste) is the most scientific
approach to sustainable waste management. Think how hard
it would be for the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority
to sort through and categorize 5,000 tonnes of waste
everyday!
Q: So Whats The Way Out
Of This Mess?
Theres a lot that you and I can do!
Lets understand what source segregation is.
Lets give ourselves the One Week Challenge and
diligently segregate our waste into the categories weve
learnt. Promise, it wont take longer than that to make this
into a habit.
Lets teach all our quaddies, spouses, SV mates, study group
mates, section mates, all friends at ISB, all non-friends at
ISB (networking opportunity?) what segregation is all about
and how cool it is! Coz the ISB Ops team can recycle 90% of
this waste. But only if you segregate..
Lets take these learnings with us outside ISB and be
pioneers!
ALL THERES TO
KNOW ABOUT
SOURCE
SEGREGATION
Nothing is waste if you segregate
 WET Turned into
compost to use in
the ISB Organic
WASTE Garden

Examples:

Fruit and vegetable

peels
Eggshells
Basically, all Meat bones
biodegradable waste that
Teabags
can be converted to
beautiful earthy-smelling Leftover food
magic soil enhancer a.k.a
COMPOST
 DRY Recycled in
partnership with
vendors such as ITC
WASTE WOW Project

Examples:

Paper
Plastic & Mineral Water
Bottles
Stuff that Milk and juice boxes
your (Tetrapak)
raddiwaala Cardboard (Think
would Amazon packaging!)
accept. Glass bottles (Think
beer!)
SANITARY Incinerated
sustainably in a
WASTE scientific incinerator

Examples:

Soiled diapers
Sanitary Napkins
Stuff that keeps you Used Toilet Paper
hygienic but could Used Tissue Papers
become toxic for the Dental Floss
environment
 REJECT Disposed in a
dumpsite hoping
for scientific landfills
WASTE in future

Examples:

Dead batteries
Soiled pizza boxes,
takeaway food packets
Basically, everything else! (Do empty the food into
wet waste first!)
Cigarette butts
Home sweeping waste
Dead insects
READ ON IF YOURE
SUSTAINABILITY
COUNCIL
Or if Waste Excites You!
 1. PROCESS
FLOWS FOR ALL
WASTE STREAMS
 Turned into
WET WASTE compost to use in
the ISB Organic
Garden

DISPOSAL COLLECTION PROCESSING

In a separate To be collected Wheeled bins to

GREEN bin everyday be emptied in
marked as Wet Wet Waste bin drop-off points
Waste contents to be in SVs from
No black emptied into a where they will
garbage bags to big wheeled bin be forwarded to
be used on the ground Organic Waste
Must be covered floor Convertor area
at all times Bins cleaned
1 bin per everyday and
apartment kept back
 Recycled in
DRY WASTE partnership with
vendors such as ITC
WOW Project

DISPOSAL COLLECTION PROCESSING

In a separate To be collected Dry waste to be

BLUE bin marked when full sorted at dropoff
as Dry Waste Dry Waste bin points into
No black garbage contents to be individual dry
bags to be used collected in large recyclable waste
Must not have a lid plastic waste streams
to encourage collection bag paper/cardboard,
correct When full, bag plastics, glass
segregation contents to be depending on
emptied into requirement of
1 bin per
dropoff points in recycling vendor
apartment
SV (near laundry
where dry waste
bins are kept)
 SANITARY Incinerated
sustainably in a
WASTE scientific incinerator

DISPOSAL COLLECTION PROCESSING

In a separate To be collected Sanitary Waste

RED bin marked everyday collection bags
as Sanitary Sanitary Waste to be emptied in
Waste bin contents to drop-off points
No black be collected in in SVs from
garbage bags to large plastic where they will
be used waste collection be forwarded to
Must have a lid bag Incinerator area
1 bin near every Bins cleaned
bathroom of the once a week
apartment and kept back
 Disposed in a
REJECT WASTE dumpsite hoping
for scientific landfills
in future

DISPOSAL COLLECTION PROCESSING

In a separate To be collected Reject Waste

YELLOW bin everyday Collection Bag
marked as Reject Waste to be emptied
Reject Waste bin contents to in drop-off
Black garbage be collected in points in SVs
bags may be large plastic from where
used waste they will be
Must have a lid collection bag handed over to
Bins cleaned waste
1 bin in every
once a week contractor for
apartment
and kept back landfilling
 2. ROLES OF
SUSTAINABILITY
COUNCIL
 (1) Ensure relevant signage is installed (on bins,
near bins)
Ensure Ensure all bins are color-coded and provided
Systems Are to all
Coordinate with Ops team at all times
In Place

Create the buzz with cool posters, e-mail

(2) Awareness campaigns, competitions Go creative!
Awareness and FAQs sessions in all Student
Sessions Villages, ensure maximum participation and
reach (Check out sample videos)

(3) Monitor the progress of adaptation of source

segregation across all SVs
Monitor & Update the awareness materials and gyaan
to be passed on to the next Class
Update Repeat!
The ISB Zero Waste Campus
Project Is a Commitment To
Understand, Manage, And
Recycle Our Waste
Sustainably!

Lets be Pioneers!