VERMICULTURE TO SHOWER HEADS
IIT takes up green campus initiative
IIT takes up green campus initiative
Mumbai: IIT-B, the large lung space of the city, is going to get greener. An intensive green-drive has taken off at the tech school.
Several initiatives like vermiculture pits and lowflow showers and taps, have been installed to conserve resources. The Green Campus initiative aims to make the 550-acre campus sustainable by generating resources required for the close students and faculty.
Last week, the institute dug its first vermiculture pit for 24 families who will convert all their wet waste into usable manure. Unlike traditional vermiculture pits, this one uses deep-burrowing indigenous worms, which are easier to maintain and do not emit a foul smell.
With this technology, vermiculture can be carried out in any sized vermibed, even an earthen pot, said Aparna Inamdar, who has been developing this technology since 1993.
Students, too, are doing their bit. A key agenda of Techfest, the annual festival, this year is to make infrastructural changes on campus to save energy and water. Students will now instal eco-friendly showerheads and pressure-reducing inserts in taps in hostels. The water saved a day could fulfill the needs of more than 3,000 families for a week.