Senior Horticulture Officer

- Sri. V. Seenivasan

COLLECTION OF GARBAGE FROM THIS SOURCE ITS DISPOSAL METHOD

• Two plastic buckets were given to each flats. One green bucket used for bio-degradable waste. The segregation of the garbage starts from the individual house.
• Garbages were collected in two separate big plastic dust bin used for bio-degradable and non-biodegradable waste by the zero waste zone workers (on contract basis) daily in the morning from the residences using tricycle.
• The collected garbages are taken to the segregation yard.

SEGREGATION OF COLLECTED GARBAGES

• The IIT Madras campus has been divided into three zones named residential zone, academic zone and Hostel Zone.
• The solid waste management deals with the efficient disposal of sewage, drainage water and the garbages.
• The collected garbages from all the zones were taken to the segregation yard for further segregation.
• The garbages were segregated a usable and non-usable item.
• The usable items like glass bottles, papers, bags, card board, plastic bottles, polythene covers, pet bottles etc. were separated and given for resale.