EUMIND 2010-11 D.Y. Patil International

School, Worli, Mumbai, India (DYPIS) Natasha Popli

Renewable energy at school: E-Gurus: Om, Om save our home

Group leader: Akanksha SinghPranay Udeshi,Ojas Jhaveri, Ronit Ranka,

Harsh Godhwani, Manav Chauhan,

Kshitij Naik

Renewable energy at school: E-Gurus projects

• Recycling non-cell phones e-waste • Recycling cell phones (e-waste) • Magnetic separator working model to

segregate magnetic metals from non-metals

• Comparison of the environmental friendliness/harmfulness of hardware found in different cell phones

What happens to our waste?

The rationale of going green:Burning household garbage

releases toxic fumesdioxins & furans (cancer causing through inhalation)

arsenic (cancer causing through inhalation,

carbon monoxide (a poisonous gas),

benzene, styrene, formaldehyde, lead (anemia, suppressed immune system, cancer)

hydrogen cyanide (a known poison)

Renewable energy at school: Initiating e-waste recycling drive

Environment Actionability Training Program for

Planet ke Rakhwale

What happens when you recycle E-Waste

What can be made from this?

Nokia assembly: primary school

Nokia assembly: middle & high school

QuizHow many tonnes of waste do you think

Mumbai produces every year?

50,000 tonnes!!!

QUIZHow many trees do u save by recycling 1 Tonne

of paper?

17 Trees

QuizHow long does metal take to decompose?

500 years

Students answered correctly during assembly

Non-cell phones e-waste pickup

Art activity:

Renewable energy at school: Project development

• Logos• To tap the competitive spirit we

integrated the incumbent sports day and the Dec‘ 10-Jan’ 11 recyclables collection drive to a house wise activity

• Houses securing the top three scores receive bonus points that provides a winning edge on sports day

Nokia recognizes DYPIS as an eco-friendly school

Renewable energy at school: PEEELO analysis

• Problems encountered: Could not install rain water harvesting and solar

energy harvesting.No allocated time at school for EUMIND projects.• Enjoyed: Big Cinemas’ field trip• Enriched: ‘Recycling resources,’ ‘Eco-friendly

school status by Nokia’• Events: ‘Nokia recycling quiz’ ‘Sports day go

green theme’• Learnt: issues associated with failure to reduce,

reuse & recycle from ‘greenpeace’• Opportunities: ‘Recycled bricks,’ ‘Comparing the

environmental friendliness of hardware found in different cell phones’

Renewable energy at school: Accomplishments:

• Eco-friendly school recognition by Nokia

• Collected .... kg of e-waste• Collected 10 cell phones, 9 chargers,

2 ear phones• Collected 3 kgs of rubber waste

E-Gurus method creditsS. No.

Student’sname

E-Gurus sub-project

1 Pranay Collecting discarded cell phones

2 Akanksha S.

Rubber as an alternative fuel, E-Gurus logo

3 Manav Collecting discarded non-cell phones electronic waste

4 Ronit R. Magnetic separator

5 Harsh Creating art work from discarded cartons

6 Kshitij Origami workshop

7 Ojas Research: Cell phones & I-Pads