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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
Explain briefly how as a student, you can help in the reduction of waste generation.
What is garbage?
State the scientific and eco-friendly methods of waste management.
Match the items in column ‘A’ with the proper ones in column ‘B’ and explain their impact on the environment.
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ |
| 1. Harmful waste | a. Glass, rubber, carry bags, etc. |
| 2. Domestic waste | b. Chemicals, pigments, ash, etc. |
| 3. Biomedical waste | c. Radioactive material |
| 4. Industrial waste | d. Leftover food, vegetables, peelings of fruits. |
| 5. Urban waste | e. Bandages, cotton, needles, etc. |
What is biomedical waste?
In schools, waste management rules say that we should separate waste into two categories.
Explain the link between waste and dangerous diseases like dengue and malaria?
What are the sources of solid wastes? How are solid wastes managed?
Excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation causes ______.
What is waste collection?
The burning of solid waste in ______ is called incineration.
Garbage buried inside landfills remain here for a long time as they decompose very slowly and become _______.
Analogy:
Biodegradable waste: Leaves, Garden wastes:: Non-biodegradable waste: ______.
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.
Provide a suitable term that expresses the meaning of the following statement.
Contents of the waste bins.
