CBSE Initiatives for Green Schools

Ankit SrivastavaCo- Founder, SWEEP Enviro

IIT Bombay – SINE incubated Firm2013

Background

Ideology• National School Sanitation Initiative (NSSI) - Emphasis on Personal Hygiene

- Proper Sanitation

- Recycling of wastewater

- Waste Segregation & Composting

- Conservation of Green Spaces

‘’Children as agents of Change’’Good Sanitary habits in childhood becomes good hygiene and

behaviour in adult stage

Category Rating Remarks

91 – 100% of Norms Green Excellent

75 – 90 % Blue Good But Scope of Improvement

50 – 74 % Yellow Fair

34 – 49 % Black Poor

Below 33 % Red Immediate Attention

Rating of CBSE Schools

Parameters of Selection

1) Sustainability

- Long term Hygiene & Safe Sanitation

2) Replicability

3) Innovation

4) Dynamism - - -

- Urinals at suitable height

- Incinerator for sanitary napkins

Best Options for Green Schools

• Waterless urinals has lesser germs (UCLA, 2010)

• Urine reacts with water to form smell otherwise fertilizer

• 500 people using urinals twice a day amount to wastage 10 Lakh litres of water annually.

Total Cost to School - Rs 60,680

• Water bill to School - Rs 40,000

• Electricity Bill to School – Rs 15,680

• Maintenance and Labour – Rs 5,000

• Treatment cost of 1 MLD to Govt. – Rs 25 – 40 Lakhs (CSE, 2011)

Waterless Urinals

Biogas plant Black water Biogas for human waste: Sanitation, Bio-energy & Manure Toilet water of 5 households is sufficient to meet cooking need of 1

family A toilet used by 1000 person/day – 65 KW – Rs 17000/month Solid waste of school can be clubbed with the system to improve the

performance

Root Zone Technology

Solid waste Disposal

• Low cost Incinerator for disposal of sanitary napkins

Rapid Composting Technique

Rapid Composting Technique

A school generating 20 Kg of waste daily can produce compost equivalent to Rs 1000/month and cost saving of Rs 2000/month to govt.

Source: NSSI Manual, 2011

Zero Discharge School

Indoor Air Quality Solutions

Removes dust particles upto 0.3 micrometer

Removes harmful air pollutants

Removes Pathogen, bacteria, viruses

Removes humidity and trace pollutants

Green Spaces from Waste

Zero Discharge School / Society

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