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IIT BOMBAY LAUNCHES SUSTAINABILITY POLICY FOR PMC TO SET UP PUNE’S
GREEN PRACTICES AND FIRST TEXTILE WASTE

CARBON NEUTRALITY PROCESSING UNIT

T he policy covers a wide range of sustainable his initiative is aimed at tackling the

practices, focusing on several critical areas:
100 to 125 tonnes of textile waste
generated daily, which cannot be
Waste Management: Implementation of
•
processed with regular solid waste
rigorous waste segregation and recycling
programs
Pune generates a substantial amount of waste
• Energy and Water Conservation: Strategies for reducing Tmanagement systems.
resource consumption through efficient practices and daily, with around 1,200 to 1,300 tonnes of dry
infrastructure waste and 900 to 1,000 tonnes of wet waste. Of
• Carbon Neutrality: A roadmap to achieve zero carbon the dry waste, approximately 100 to 125 tonnes
consists of textile waste, including items such as
emissions on campus mattresses, cushions, clothes, sofas, glass fibers,
• Biodiversity Promotion: The creation of butterfly leather bags, shoes, and more. The new textile
gardens, conservation of exotic flora, and establishment waste processing unit will offer an eco-friendly
of a biodiversity lab to monitor and protect campus solution to manage this growing waste stream
biodiversity while preventing harm to nature.
IIT Bombay’s launch of this sustainability policy highlights The unit will address the challenges associated
its commitment to reducing its carbon footprint and sets an with processing textile waste, such as its large size
example for academic and research institutions across India and difficulty in compression, which often causes
and globally to integrate green practices into their operations. blockages in regular waste management conveyors. CIJ

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