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Celebrating World Environment Day, Environmental Engineering Student Association helds Organic Waste Management Activities in Campus University General
Saturday, June 5 2022, coinciding with World Environment Day, the Environmental Engineering Student Association and the Environmental Engineering Study Program, Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University, held clean-up activities and made organic waste processing sites on campus. This activity was carried out in Civil Engineering Study Program campus area, Faculty of Engineering, which is also the location of the lecture and administration building for the Environmental Engineering Study Program. The activity, which was attended by the Study Program Coordinator, Lecturers and Students, started with a clean-up activity to collect organic and inorganic waste around the campus. For inorganic waste, only collection was carried out, while for organic waste was processed into compost.
On this occasion, students and lecturers made places for processing organic waste into compost using concrete buis. After the concrete bucket was completely filled with organic waste, including dry leaf waste, flower and leaf waste from the “canang” ceremony facilities and food waste such as fruit, compost is added which already contains microorganisms that decompose organic waste. In addition, water was added to maintaining humidity which is a factor that affects the waste decompositio. The last step was sealing the concrete buis tightly, then let it sit for 3 months until it becomes compost and can be used.
There are three concrete buckets that are used as a place for processing organic waste into compost. Each bucket has a diameter of 60 cm. To increase the creativity of students, Environmental Engineering Student Association and the Environmental Engineering Study Program provide opportunities for students to be creative in the organic waste processing site by making mural art on the outside of the concrete buckets so it looks aesthetic. Furthermore, there will be a signboard or guidelines for the processing of organic waste, so the entire campus community can also done the waste processing. The processed compost will later be used to fertilize plants around the campus area.
Coordinator of Environmental Engineering Study Program, Ir. Kadek Diana Harmayani, ST, MT, Ph.D. said, "We should start doing this activities in our very own scope first, cleaning our surrounding environment first before we implement it to a wider area". She also expressed her proud and appreciation for the students activeness in cleaning and processing waste in the campus environment itself.
World Environment Day is celebrated every year as an effort to build our awareness about the condition of our environment which is getting more and more problematic by the day. One of the environmental issues that occurs in almost all parts of the world including Indonesia today is the waste problem, where the volume of waste continues to increase and there is still a lack of waste that can be processed properly. Through this commemoration is hoped that whole Unud students, not only students of the Environmental Engineering Study Program, can have a higher awareness of caring and protecting the environment that can continue to be sustainable for the next generation.
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