Question

1) Write a letter to the Prime Minister expressing how there is no proper garbage disposal facility in your locality in 20-25 sentences.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Waste poses a threat to public health and the environment if it is not stored, collected, and disposed of properly. The perception of waste as an unwanted material with no intrinsic value has dominated attitudes towards disposal. This study investigates the domestic waste practices, waste disposal, and perceptions about waste and health in an urban community.

Methods

The study utilised a mixed-method approach. A cross-sectional survey questionnaire and in-depth interview were used to collect data. A total of 364 household heads were interviewed in the survey and six key informants were interviewed with the in-depth interviews.

Results

The results of the study revealed that 93.1% of households disposed of food debris as waste and 77.8% disposed of plastic materials as waste. The study also showed that 61.0% of the households disposed of their waste at community bins or had waste picked up at their homes by private contractors. The remaining 39.0% disposed of their waste in gutters, streets, holes and nearby bushes. Of those who paid for the services of private contractors, 62.9% were not satisfied with the services because of their cost and irregular collection. About 83% of the respondents were aware that improper waste management contributes to disease causation; most of the respondents thought that improper waste management could lead to malaria and diarrhoea. There was a general perception that children should be responsible for transporting waste from the households to dumping sites.

Conclusion

Proper education of the public, the provision of more communal trash bins, and the collection of waste by private contractors could help prevent exposing the public in municipalities to diseases.

Keywords: Domestic waste, Solid waste disposal, Perceptions about waste, Ghana

Answer 2

Answer:

G-45,

Krishna Colony,

Anand Vihar,

Mathura

To

The Prime minister

Delhi

6th November, 2013

Subject : complaining about the improper drainage system

Sir,

I wish to draw your attention towards the pathetic condition of the drainage system in our district Nagpur. The drains are always overflowing and there is a foul smell in the locality.

Mosquitoes, and insects breed in this area, which is unhygienic and making life difficult for us.

During the monsoon season the gets bad to worse. Even a small downpour leads to clogging of drains and as a result all the streets are waterlogged. During Rainy seasons the garbage which piles in the corners of the road gets carried away with the water and is spread all across the roads.

This condition has also made life miserable for all those who stay on the ground floor as the rain water seeps into the houses. Most of the houses in our district are single stored, so most of us face this problem.

This water logging attracts mosquitoes and various other insects, due to which people are suffering from dengue, malaria and other diseases.

We have approached the local representatives. They have come over here to check the problem but they never return with any solution.

I have come know that in our neighboring districts they are not facing any kind of this problem as the entire sewage and drainage system has been changed. So, I would like to inform that the drainage system in our district is old and cracked which we people are fed up of. Kindly make it replaced with the new one.

I humbly request you to look into this matter and to bring a solution to our problems.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,

Pooja Sharma

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