dividing waste is important? why?
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Well, before answering this question, let us look at the word ‘waste’. The word ‘waste’ originated from the Latin word ‘vastus’ which meant ‘unoccupied’ or ‘uncultivated’. The earliest uses of the word invariably denote an enormous and empty sense of a depopulated landscape, “uninhabited (or sparsely inhabited) and uncultivated country; a wild and desolate region.
From these definitions, ‘waste’ is something which cannot be made use of. Which is partially right. Not all ‘waste’ is waste! There is always something good in your waste. Waste actually becomes a source of raw material!
Say for example you have a banana peel, cardboard, a bunch of old newspapers, glass bottles, some plastic packaging material in your trash i.e. “Municipal Solid Waste”. Each of these materials have their own characteristics and reuse/ reduce/ recycling/ stabilization potential.
The banana peel and other organic wastes, if segregated at the source, can be used as compost or it can be anaerobically digested to form biogas. Paper has high recycling potential. Approximately 28 m tonnes of wood can be saved from getting cut if 7.7 tonnes of paper is recovered for recycling! The same can be said of glass, and packaging materials. 3.1 million tonnes of recovered glass can substitute 3.3 million tonnes of minerals needed for production.
So yes, all this can happen only if you take responsibility and segregate your waste. Imagine how easy/ hassle free it would be for workers handling MSW if segregation at the source is practised. It is done in most parts of developed Europe and possibly in other developed regions.
Although waste segregation is gaining importance in cities like Bengaluru in India, it is safe to say that the conditions in most of India is pathetic, to say the least. The waste generators have scant knowledge about how to handle the waste, and all they do is dump wet waste, dry waste in a bag for disposal. The workers who handle the waste face inhuman conditions, and are required to sort the waste manually. They often end up getting serious health problems.
The waste management scenario in most of the emerging economies is akin to sweeping the ‘dust under the carpet’. It is high time we give importance to waste management for a better environment. Waste segregation seems a good start!
I HOPE IT HELPS U.
HERE IS UR ANSWER.
Thanks for asking this question.
Well, before answering this question, let us look at the word ‘waste’. The word ‘waste’ originated from the Latin word ‘vastus’ which meant ‘unoccupied’ or ‘uncultivated’. The earliest uses of the word invariably denote an enormous and empty sense of a depopulated landscape, “uninhabited (or sparsely inhabited) and uncultivated country; a wild and desolate region.
From these definitions, ‘waste’ is something which cannot be made use of. Which is partially right. Not all ‘waste’ is waste! There is always something good in your waste. Waste actually becomes a source of raw material!
Say for example you have a banana peel, cardboard, a bunch of old newspapers, glass bottles, some plastic packaging material in your trash i.e. “Municipal Solid Waste”. Each of these materials have their own characteristics and reuse/ reduce/ recycling/ stabilization potential.
The banana peel and other organic wastes, if segregated at the source, can be used as compost or it can be anaerobically digested to form biogas. Paper has high recycling potential. Approximately 28 m tonnes of wood can be saved from getting cut if 7.7 tonnes of paper is recovered for recycling! The same can be said of glass, and packaging materials. 3.1 million tonnes of recovered glass can substitute 3.3 million tonnes of minerals needed for production.
So yes, all this can happen only if you take responsibility and segregate your waste. Imagine how easy/ hassle free it would be for workers handling MSW if segregation at the source is practised. It is done in most parts of developed Europe and possibly in other developed regions.
Although waste segregation is gaining importance in cities like Bengaluru in India, it is safe to say that the conditions in most of India is pathetic, to say the least. The waste generators have scant knowledge about how to handle the waste, and all they do is dump wet waste, dry waste in a bag for disposal. The workers who handle the waste face inhuman conditions, and are required to sort the waste manually. They often end up getting serious health problems.
The waste management scenario in most of the emerging economies is akin to sweeping the ‘dust under the carpet’. It is high time we give importance to waste management for a better environment. Waste segregation seems a good start!
I HOPE IT HELPS U.
manicharan19:
very best thank you it helps me lot
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