Year of establishment: 2010

Director/Coordinator: Akshay Yardi

		Paper Recycling Unit is an integral part of Koushalya Women’s Technology Park of Karnataka State Akkamahadevi Women’s University. Established in the year 2010-11, the unit has a capacity to recycle waste products of paper. Paper Recycling is an important green technology which is the need of the present hour and the unit harnesses this technology to manufacture high quality files for the regular office use of the university. Along with files, visiting cards, greeting cards, carry bags are also manufactured in the unit occasionally.
Reuse of the stationery waste produced in the university campus and providing files to various departments of the university has been an important cost-cutting mechanism for the university. On an average, nearly 350 to 400 files are manufactured every month using various machines such as Hydrapulper, Univat, Screw press, Calendaring machine and cutting machine. Along with manufacture of files from waste papers, the unit also provides training to the students of the university, occasionally. The unit has got a potential to become a centre for imparting employability skills among rural women of the surrounding areas.

Vision:

To achieve sustainable development through ‘recycling technology’ and channelise efforts towards environmental conservation

Mission:

  1. To generate interest among students regarding ‘Recycling technology’

  2. To reuse waste and manufacture useful products

Objectives:

—To produce files, folders, visiting cards, carry bags using waste papers

—To process waste paper and manufacture new paper sheets

—To provide training in paper recycling technology to students and rural women

—To add to green technology adoption on the university campus

Major Functions:

  1. Manufacture of files using waste paper pulp

  2. Manufacture of Envelopes, carry bags

Manufacture of Files (In the last SIX years): 

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