How a college team helped a Karnataka village achieve 90 percent waste segregation and grow a food forest

When students and faculty from Azim Premji University stepped beyond campus, they worked with a panchayat near Bengaluru to rethink waste, composting, and shared responsibility through Zero Waste Centre’, writes Nishtha Kawrani in The Better India.

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Image courtesy: Anjor Bhaskar

7 Feb 2026- The Better India

We cannot keep preaching sustainability without practising it. If we are teaching young people about building a just, humane and equitable society, sustainability has to be at the core of that vision.”

Know more about the steps towards sustainability at Azim Premji University here.