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Waste management at IIT Kanpur
Our aim is to manage and dispose the waste generated in IIT Kanpur in a sustainable and environment friendly manner.
This primarily involves complete treatment of organic waste, all the way from its
collection and segregation, to its conversion into high quality organic manure.
Please visit the multimedia and gallery links at the top to find more information about our segregation and composting process.
We plan to have a decentralized treatment of organic waste, thereby reducing cost and time for transport of waste. In the first phase, we have started collecting segregated waste from faculty apartments and are converting the biodegradable waste into compost. We envision that IIT Kanpur will reduce the waste going to landfills to minimum and all the organic waste will be converted into compost for trees and plants.