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प्रश्न
How will you register individual participation in solid waste management?
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उत्तर
- Putting the garbage into the trash.
- Repair and maintain the goods and use them for longer.
- Using 3 'R' mantras in solid waste management. Reduce (reducing waste), reuse (reuse of waste), recycle (recycling of waste)
- Put the plastic wrap of chocolate, biscuits, ice cream or cold materials into dust bins without putting it in the road or open space.
- Avoid the use of plastic bags and use bags made from cloth bags, home old saris, bedsheets, and curtains as an alternative.
- Writing on both sides of the paper. Re-use of greeting cards, and gift papers.
- By reducing the use of tissue paper, use a handkerchief near themselves.
- Using a rechargeable battery instead of leading batteries.
- To encourage themselves, family and society in solid waste management, implementing various programs.
- Avoiding ‘use and throw’ type of articles like pens, canned cold drinks and tetra-packs etc.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
How can you help in reducing the problem of waste disposal? Give any two methods.
What is garbage?
Every household produces a lot of material A daily. In one of the methods of disposal B, material A is burned at a very high temperature of about 1000°C in a structure called C. During this process, the organic matter present is removed as D and E whereas F is left behind (which can be dumped in a landfill site).
(a) What is material A?
(b) Name the method of disposal B.
(c) What is structure C known as?
(d) What are (i) D (ii) E, and (iii) F?
(e) This method is especially suitable for the disposal of materials produced by certain institutions. Name such institutions.
What can an individual do to reduce waste at home?
State the scientific and eco-friendly methods of waste management.
What is known as waste?
How many types of waste?
How is solid waste disposed of in ah incinerator?
How does an incinerator work?
Study the image below and write down three items you have at home in each category of waste.
Biodegradable ______
Which of the following substances will not be converted to compost when added in a composting pit?
It is best to separate waste into 3 different bins.
Garbage buried inside landfills remain here for a long time as they decompose very slowly and become _______.
The term non-biodegradable is used for those things that can be easily decomposed.
What is Landfill?
Give the Solid Waste Management (SWM) rules.
In a village in Karnataka, people started cultivating crops all around a lake which was always filled with water. They added fertilisers to their field in order to enhance the yield. Soon they discovered that the waterbody was completely covered with green floating plants and fishes started dying in large numbers.
Analyse the situation and give reasons for excessive growth of plants and death of fish in the lake.
