27 February,2009 03:38 PM IST | | Lavanya Srinivasan
Wipro Limited launched Eco Forum, an initiative aimed at promoting the exchange of best practices and ideas in the green space with like-minded corporates, NGO's and industry bodies at their campus in Bangalore today.u00a0
Waste Management was the theme of the forum and discussions centered on various ways and means to manage and re-use the huge amounts of waste generated every day. The delegates took a tour of Wipro's Eco Avenue at the Electronics City Campus and discussed various measures adopted by Wipro in waste management.u00a0
The Eco Avenue houses a bio-gas plant, paper recycling plant and a sewage treatment plant, among other eco-projects. The Biogas plant converts approximately 1.5 Tons of food waste from the cafeteria into biogas (equivalent of approximately 6 commercial cylinders of LPG daily). This biogas is re-used for cooking in the campus-kitchen. Used paper from the facility is shredded and converted into notepads in the in-house recycling plant.
