{"id":7708,"date":"2025-12-23T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:03:12","slug":"cem-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/cem-2-2-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-Led Sustainability Initiative-\u00a0 Reuse &amp; Recycling of Used Pens and Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A team of students specializing in Energy and Environmental Technology at the Faculty of Technology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, carried out a sustainability initiative on the reuse and recycling of used pens and books. Collection points were set up across the faculty, engaging over 1,000 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project collected more than 1,000 pens and 24 kg of books, which were sorted for reuse and recycling and officially handed over to industry partners for&nbsp;proper management. The initiative contributed to reducing campus waste sent to landfills and promoted responsible waste management practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Team members &#8211;\u00a0H.J.D.K. Aberathna ,\u00a0L.R.C.R.B. Aberathna ,\u00a0A.M. Askhy,\u00a0A.M.R.M. Athapaththu ,\u00a0H.M.P.T. Bandara,\u00a0R.M.U.I. Bandara ,R.P.A.S.N. Dewmini and\u00a0B.V.V. Fernando<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/Sustainability-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C775&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/Sustainability-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C775&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/Sustainability-3.jpg?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/Sustainability-3.jpg?resize=1536%2C1163&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/Sustainability-3.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of students specializing in Energy and Environmental Technology at the Faculty of Technology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, carried out a sustainability initiative on the reuse and recycling of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":7709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/Sustainability-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7713,"href":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708\/revisions\/7713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.sjp.ac.lk\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}