Nirmalya Composting at Schools
Nirmalya generated at homes and places of worship need not become waste. Schools can provide a simple, visible and convenient system to return it to the soil through composting—while engaging families, creating gardens and giving students a living classroom.
Nirmalya Composting at Schools – Implementation Roadmap PDF
Why Should a School Do This?
The waste doesn’t originate at school.
But the school can become part of the solution.
🌱 Return nutrients to soil
🌊 Reduce pressure on water bodies
👨👩👧 Engage families
📚 Create a living classroom
How It Works
Homes / Community
↓
🌼 Nirmalya
↓
🏫 School Collection Point
↓
♻️ Composting
↓
🌱 Compost
↓
🌳 School Garden / Butterfly Garden
↓
👧 Student Learning
Pune Schools That Have Done It
Ready to Implement?
Download the complete Nirmalya Composting at Schools handbook for the rationale, Pune case studies, implementation guidance, educational opportunities and design principles.
Downloadable Resources
1. WHAT TO BRING / WHAT NOT TO BRING
✅ PLEASE BRING
Flowers 🌸
Leaves 🍃
Fruits 🍎
Rice & other biodegradable offerings 🌾
Other natural, biodegradable material from religious offerings
Bring only the biodegradable nirmalya.
❌ PLEASE DO NOT BRING
Plastic bags
Thermocol
Decorative plastic
Metal items
Synthetic decorative material
Any other non-biodegradable material
Remove plastic, thermocol and other non-biodegradable material.
🌱 What happens next?
Nirmalya → Compost → Soil → Garden → New Life
Let’s return nirmalya to the soil, not the water.
2. NIRMALYA COLLECTION POINT POSTER
BRING NIRMALYA HERE
From Worship → To Compost → To Life
✅ WE ACCEPT
🌸 Flowers
🍃 Leaves
🌿 Natural biodegradable offerings
🍚 Rice & other biodegradable material
❌ PLEASE DO NOT DEPOSIT
🚫 Plastic bags
🚫 Thermocol
🚫 Decorative plastic
🚫 Metal
🚫 Other non-biodegradable material
PLEASE REMOVE ALL PLASTIC & NON-BIODEGRADABLE MATERIAL BEFORE DEPOSITING.
WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR NIRMALYA?
NIRMALYA
↓
COMPOST
↓
SCHOOL GARDEN
↓
NEW LIFE
Bring Nirmalya. Take Life.
[School Name]
Nirmalya Composting Project
3. PARENT WHATSAPP MESSAGE
A New Sustainability Initiative at [School Name]
Dear Parents,
As part of our efforts to make our school a centre of sustainability for the neighbourhood, we are starting a Nirmalya Composting Project on our school campus.
Nirmalya—flowers, leaves, fruits, rice and other biodegradable offerings—can return to the soil through composting instead of being disposed of in water bodies.
We invite you to participate.
What can you send?
🌸 Flowers
🍃 Leaves
🌿 Other natural biodegradable offerings
🍚 Rice and other biodegradable material
Please do not send:
❌ Plastic bags
❌ Thermocol
❌ Decorative plastic
❌ Metal or other non-biodegradable material
Please remove all plastic and other non-biodegradable material before sending nirmalya to school.
You may send the nirmalya with your child or deposit it at the designated collection point when dropping your child at school.
The collected nirmalya will be composted on the school premises and the compost will be used in our gardens.
This initiative gives our students an opportunity to experience a simple principle of nature:
What comes from the soil can return to the soil.
We invite your family to be part of this journey.
From worship → to compost → to soil → to new life. 🌱
Warm regards,
[School Name]