University - Vellore Institute of Technology
Waste from the Vellore Fish market used to be packed in black plastic bags and disposed at the market entrance, from where the municipality picked it up and transported it to the Sadupperi dumping grounds for the past several decades. Public protest due to unbearable stench near the market, and due to water pollution near the dumping grounds led to a serious crisis. EGC solved the problem by implementing ZWM in partnership with the Market Association, Municipality, District Administration and State Pollution Control Board.

Waste is segregated at source into blue, green and red bins, collected by eight workers from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and taken to the compost shed in tricycles, where the waste is processed. Bones are sold for calcium, baskets and palm mats used in packaging are used to make tree guards, small pieces of wood are turned into powder (to be composted) by introducing termites, chicken guts and fish flesh are used to make fish food, and egg and crab shell powder are sun dried and powdered for agricultural use. A specialized method of composting (in layers) of the rest of the waste is carried out. Four hens and two cocks are released into the compost shed during the day to feed on the maggots breeding in the waste, and about 100 frogs and lizards to control flies during the night.

The market has received a facelift. It is much cleaner and two new bus stops have come up near the market, a place people stayed miles away from. The project has created green jobs for eight persons (7 workers + 1 supervisor paid a monthly salary of Rs.2,250 each) who take turns to maintain the market clean round the clock. Pollution of water has been stopped. 1,750 tonnes of compost have been generated through the project, which are used for organic farming. The members of the Market Association take the compost. EGC is planning on a centralised waste management plan for all non-vegetarian waste in the town. Since this kind of waste requires specialised care and handling, it is not a good idea to spread it out much.

Schools
Students Partnership Worldwide (SPW) brings together young volunteers (local and overseas), and involves them in developmental activities in remote village government schools. SPW volunteers, with the help of EGC and other NGOs, have worked in nine government schools and developed the following facilities and activities.

	Sanitation facilities
	Zero Waste Management program where the organic matter is composted and the inorganic waste is segregated for recycling
	Organic kitchen gardens for their noon-meal centers
	Biogas plants
	Tree planting
	Restoring water resources
	Rain water harvesting

Once set up, the projects continue under the care of the leadership clubs comprising of students from classes
6 to 8.

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