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IES group of Institutes go Eco- Friendly

The environmental concerns have not stopped ringing the alarm bell. There have been concerns from past few decades and things aren’t really looking up per se. The deforestation is still going on in full swing. We are losing the forest cover as rapidly as we could go about it. The concerned authorities have been trying to create awareness about the situation at hand. But the fact that would see some stains of smiles is that the extent of awareness is now more than ever. There are plantation drives, the eco friendly products and organic farming has been becoming popular and the educated population all around the world have taken to it.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

One of the most popular environment friendly initiatives is the use of recycled paper. Millions of sheets of paper are used every day and when one is able to recycle them all and put them to use again, just a lot many more trees could be saved which is like the lifeline of earth and environment right now with the fragile condition that it is now.

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The recycling of waste and used paper begins at a recycle stations. Waste paper and paper products could be used to produce fresh paper and other paper products. Paper is such an uncrowned king of our daily lives. From tickets to files and bills to lists, all of it is performed on a sheet of paper. It takes stock of our daily lives. As per the results of a survey, paper constitutes to about 35% of all the trash in one form or the other. If one is able to utilise the waste in the recycle bin and brought to use as raw material, the stress on the already overloaded environment by as much as 1/3. Recycling and reusing should be encouraged in every corporate office, educational institute and everywhere else.

Statistics never lie

A look at the statistics would reveal the importance of saving paper. Recycling one ton of paper is equal to

  • About 17 trees saved from getting cut down and converted to pulp.
  • Apart from saving the lives of those many trees, it can save up to 250 pound weight of limestone and 275 pound weight of another chemical – sulphur
  • Recycling that much paper results in saving about 60,000 litres of precious water.
  • Electricity, as much as 225KW hours can be saved.
  • Recycling paper also saves a landfill area of up to 3.3 cubic yards.
  • Recycling paper also results in reduced emission of greenhouse gases as a decomposing paper releases Methane into the air.

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The initiative by IES group of institutions

Thanks to the extensive programs of environmental concern by the Government, there have been good initiatives taken by the institutes in India. One such example is the IES group of Institutions. The group has returned with a figure of about 50% reduced usage of paper. The management has instructed every student and staff to use every blank part of the waste paper. Any failure to do would invite a punishment, especially more so for the staff and faculty members.

The three R’s of reduce; reuse and recycle have been followed to the T, ever since the group decided to go green about 18 months back. The first campaign to come off was “waste paper use”. The result has been phenomenal with about half the usage reduces. The director of IES group Professor Sunita Singh went on record to say that when they realised Paper was being used a luxury object, an immediate scrutiny was ordered. When it was found out that monthly consumption of paper was about 45,000, it immediately sparked the decision of curbing that practise. She also remarked that “every paper saved or recycled helps save our environment as trees are felled to produce paper”.

The institute started off softly by motivating the students to reduce the use of paper. However, later it was made mandatory for everyone, including the staff and students to use and recycle waste paper. The support and response from the staff was encouraging. From using paper on both the sides to using things like an envelope too, the institute has been an example for many others.

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