Question

Students in a school listened to the news read in the morning assembly that the mountain of garbage in Delhi, suddenly exploded and variouos vehicals got buried under it. Several people were also injured and there was traffic jam all around. In the brain storming session the teacher also discussed this issue and asked the students to find out a solution to the problem of garbage. Finally they arrived at two main points - one is self management of the garbage we produce and the second is to generate less garbage at individual level.
(a) Suggest to measures to manage the garbage we produce.
(b) As an individual, what can we do to generate the least garbage ? Give two points.

Answer 1

(a ) Measures to manage the garbage we produce :
(i) Fruits and vegetable peels can be converted into paste and can be used as manure in potted plants and fields to increase soil fertility.
(ii) Use your own reusable cloth bags instead of accepting plastic bags from the stores to carry items.
(b) As an individuals , we can adopt the following methods ,
(i) Encourage recycling, it means that we should collect the used and discarded items of paper, plastic , glass and metals, and send them to the respective industirs for making fresh paper, plastic glass or metal objects.
(ii) Encourage reuse, which means, if possible , we should use the same things again for example, the plastic or glass jars in which we buy various food items like jam, etc. can be used later on for storing things like salt, pulses, etc.