To feed the pit with garbage, the students of class 8 collected waste from the kitchen and garden. In addition to this, they decided to sensitise the people in the locality around the school. After a discussion with the person in charge of garbage management in the Jubilee Hills area, they selected 15 households. A one-page questionnaire was circulated to increase awareness along with a fact sheet. A cardboard box was also given to these households in which to put wet waste in. Wet waste included biodegradable garden and kitchen waste except tamarind, chillies and peels of citrus fruits. This waste was collected by the students till ten days by which time, the households were sensitised enough to set up their own pits.

After around two months, the vermicompost pile was 2 ft high and the layers were black and granular. This was vermicompost with a crumbly texture and a nice earthy smell. From a pit 1 m deep, 4 ft wide and 6 ft long, nine bags of vermicompost were collected.

In the meanwhile, around 100 saplings were planted by the students of class 10 at the school site in Rajendra Nagar. These included varieties like neem, saraca indica, dalbergia, pentium, gulmohar and silver oak, collected from Lumbini Park with the help of I. S. Rao of World Wide Fund for nature. The vermicompost from the school pit was used as manure.

The three projects were integrated in a very effective and efficient way and bagged the Best Project award in the Hyderabad Children's Science Congress, 1998.