WASTE MANAGEMENT IN CEPT

UNIVERSITY

Gouri Unnikrishnan
Keval Mistry
Rama Raghavan

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Research Question

How is waste managed in a college campus?: A case of

CEPT University
Stakeholders: Students, Administration and Shop
owners
Areas: Canteen, Studios and Workshop

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 Conceptual Map

RESEARCH
QUESTIONS Waste Management

RESEARC
H Past Present Future
DIMENSI
ONS

Roles and Suggestiv

Issues Measures Responsibilit e
ies Measures
EMPIRICAL
INDICATORS
Roles and
Types of
Location Responsibilit Issues
waste
ies

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Sample

Mixture of convenience and Deviant sampling

FGD Homogenous sampling and convenience

Reason
Convenience - constraints in time and availability of ready
participants
Deviant Point of view of different stakeholders
FGD - Comfort level and availability of all participants at a
particular

Challenges
Reaching out
Time inability to study over longer duration
- Starting of semester
Commit to time for interview

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Methods used

Observation
- Physical observation
- Visual mapping

Interview
- Semi structured individual
- Semi structured Focus Group Discussion

Overlap of observation and interview

- Emergent interview questions from observation and vice
versa

Reason
- Observation -Recce of existing scenario
- Interview Triangulate with observation
- - Opinions of various stake holders
- - Challenges faced(Past) and Suggestive measures
(Future)
- Visual Mapping identification of problem areas and
triangulation
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Data collection
Physical Observation
Visual data
Location
Type of disposal
Content
Amount of waste generated
Problem Areas
Studio
Canteen
Segregation
Aesthetics

Individual Interviews Convenient sampling and deviant

sampling
Students from various departments
Council members
Admin staff
Campus Office
Shop owners- Print, Radhika, Stationary

Focus Group Discussion - homogenous sample

Students same department
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Coding and analysis

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Reflections

Started with enquiry into current scenario of waste

management measures already in place and issues faced.
Got many inputs on past measures taken, challenges faced
and suggestive measures for future.
Mixed response when it came to roles and responsibilities of
different stakeholders
Administration hesitant to take ownership.
Not a priority for all stakeholders, lack of awareness among
shop owners
Discrepancy between observation and data collected from
interview probably due to timing
Water wastage came up which was not a parameter in
question but was a general concern.
Workshop reuse waste generated.
Students very eager to pitch in, but expect support from both
faculty and administration
Concern about short term measures not sustaining

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