Let’s Make Zero Plastic Work

You know what happens when a bunch of young, non-patient and creative minds clash together without a management? A disaster.

But if we could give them what they want and a little bit appreciation? A better world can be resulted. Who are these young and enthusiastic youngsters?

US the children of mother UWU!!!! Impressive..!!

You’ll never know until you try.

ZERO PLASTIC.... Sounds familiar and nearly got tired of listening to the same thing over and over again....

Don’t stop!! Something new is here today. Something that we can do together with a little bit of awareness and effort.

Are you ready?

We are going to make our university a zero plastic with new ideas and innovations.

Yaaaay..!!

How many faculties are there in our university? Four. Exactly we are specializing areas that can be used on the way to the zero plastic university. You will be amazed to see students’ capabilities, if we distribute tasks according to our abilities.

When we are going to talk about zero plastic, we can’t help going into zero waste because some of the plastic are stick-up with food. A major conflict when disposing plastic is we cannot take the pure plastic waste. There are several factors such as food items can be inside plastic items, other non-plastic materials can be seen with plastic waste. All these problems can be solved if we could manage plastic and non-plastic waste separately.

First step must be an awareness session which is on the way. The next are in order.

1. Separate bins for separate materials such as plastic, metal, food items, Paper, cardboard etc.

2. Food items must be subjected to made compost.

3. Gasses that emits from compost must be used for canteens.

4. All the plastic materials can be used for recycling or reusing.

5. Finally we can encourage using plastic alternatives.

Pretty effective right?

First of all we should learn to collect clean plastic. The common complain all the universities get from municipal council is that we are not being able to separate garbage properly. So, in this case if we can create a proper way to get the benefits of garbage clearly, we don’t need to worry about municipal council.

As we all know the food waste that is collected in a university premises daily is a huge amount. And food coverings, water bottles and other waste also a large amount. We have to separate the foods and food coverings properly. Then only we can recycle or reuse properly.

So for the starter how much gas tanks are wanted for the cooking purposes in canteen? Per one liter of food waste we can produce 200 liters of gas.

First we separate foods and plastic based food and beverages bottles. Second we dispose those plastic without food stains to the dustbins. And send them for recycling or reusing purposes. Leftover foods are sent for producing compost. Next the emitted gas from compost pits is sent for gas cookers. Not only a zero plastic an eco-friendly environment.

Next question what do we do as faculties? Oh come on...!!

We are in an entrepreneurial university with new idea holders. Please think fast and new. We got more than enough human resources. Technological side, management side, scientific side: why can’t we distribute tasks from these sides?

We can make a twelve years period or more project to make this system practically. If we could make this it will be useful for generations. What next?

Episodes are ahead. So let’s make it work. Rise and shine guys!! Welcome to the dream!!

Writer-: Veenavee Anuththara