The presentation by Ankit Srivastava at EDU-CARNIVAL 2014 - the 6th International conference for school leaders, IIT DELHI.

1. CBSE Initiatives for Green
Schools
Ankit Srivastava
Co- Founder, SWEEP Enviro
IIT Bombay – SINE incubated Firm
2013

2. Background

3. 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

5. 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

6. 1) Sustainability
- Long term Hygiene & Safe Sanitation
2) Replicability
3) Innovation
4) Dynamism - - -
- Urinals at suitable height
- Incinerator for sanitary napkins

7. Best Options for Green Schools

8. • 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

10.  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

11. Root Zone Technology

12. Solid waste Disposal
• Low cost Incinerator for disposal of sanitary
napkins

13. Rapid Composting Technique

14. 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.

15. Source: NSSI Manual, 2011

16. Indoor Air Quality Solutions
Removes dust particles upto 0.3 micrometer
Removes harmful air pollutants
Removes Pathogen, bacteria, viruses
Removes humidity and trace pollutants

17. Green Spaces from Waste

19. Thank you