Question

Geeta collects a heap of waste material from her house. She has-vegetable
peels, tea leaves, small polythene from grocery, empty cartons, medicine bottles, broken plastic ware and old clothes. She segregates them and decides their disposal in the best possible way.

a) Why is segregation an essential step for proper waste disposal?
b) What treatment Geeta would have given to vegetable peels and tea
leaves?
c) Sort out one material from the list which is most threatful for the
environment. Why do you think so?​

Answer 1

The following questions can be answered as follows:

Explanation:

• Segregation is an important step for waste disposal because each type of waste material needs to be disposed by different method. Some materials can be recycled, others are seriously toxic or dangerous. Hence. the waste materials needs to be segregated.

• b) The vegetable peels and tea leaves could be used as bio fertilizers as and Geeta can use them as fertilizers.

• c) Small polythene  bags are the most threatful to the environment amongst the list. This is because the polythene bags cannot be degraded.