collect information from library Internet and prepare a project on solid waste management or bioremediation
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Solid waste management has become a major environmental issue. Effective solid waste management systems are needed to ensure better human health and safety. It includes collection, transport, processing or disposal of waste materials. Some of the key issues involved in solid waste management are growth in population, increasing garbage generation, improper waste collection system and segregation of waste at source. In order to make the students aware of the critical issue and also to prevent wasting things in school, we selected solid waste management as one of the activities under the ISA project.
Solid waste management is a polite term for garbage management. As long as humans have been living in settled communities, solid waste or garbage has been an issue and modern societies generate far more solid waste than early humans ever did. Solid waste management is a system for handling all of this garbage and includes municipal waste collections, recycling progress, dump and incineration.
In order to create awareness about prevention, minimization, reuse, recycling, energy recovery and disposal of garbage a project ‘Solid waste Management’was taken up for the students of Kavi Bharathi Vidyalaya aged 12-13 years.
Initial past of the project had the students doing research work on the initiatives taken by the governments of U.K, U.S and China regarding solid waste management. The data collected was presented in the form of power point presentations and charts. They also wrote articles, and reports and delivered speech about solid waste management. They learnt cost recovery by selling the recyclable materials they collected in the school. They also did art work using the reusable materials such as pen stand, wall hanging, jewelry, flower vase.
A compost pit was made to manage the solid waste generated in school. The students learnt about segregation of biodegradable & non-biodegradable waste. Different coloured waste bins for organic and inorganic waste were also kept to make these activities effective an Eco Club was formed in school. The impact of this project was so great that most of the students were inspired to do solid waste management in their home front too.