Waste management at BCIL Townsend
Materials Lend to Aesthetics
• Signages employ waste wood that is treated to last
Recycling of building industry waste
• The entire deck, vertical columns and roof truss have been built with babul, a non-forest timber
• Waste granite pieces are used instead of flagging concrete for homes and pathways.
• All around the campus are examples of such use of material that is waste for some industry.
• Quarry waste has been used with dry mortar for lending aesthetic to land
• Waste casuarina and eucalyptus wood have been used for fencing in as many parts of the campus
Bio-waste management
• Leafy biomass mulched for vermi compost that serves as fertilisers, and pesticides.
• Use of food and other organic waste
• Generation of lighting energy with digesters.
• Creation of circle gardens with aerobic digestion of food waste for plants.