Progress Check
1. Name the three categories of wastes under segregation.
2. Which categories of wastes require dumping ?
3. Is it true that composting is a useful method contributing in crop farming ?
4. What is sludge ?
5. Can incineration lead to certain kind of pollution? Yes/No.
6. Name two types of devices used for removing particulate air pollutants.
Answers
Answer:
1. Every waste generator shall segregate and store the waste generated by them in 3 separate streams namely - bio‐degradable, non‐bio‐ degradable and domestic hazardous wastes in suitable bins and hand-over segregated wastes to authorized rag‐pickers or waste collectors .
2.Agricultural wastewater.
Biodegradable waste.
Biomedical waste.
Brown waste.
Chemical waste.
Construction waste.
Demolition waste.
Electronic waste
The above waste require dumping...
3.Yes....
Compost provides a stable organic matter that improves the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils, thereby enhancing soil quality and crop production.
4. Meaning -- thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components, especially the product of an industrial or refining process.
5.Waste incineration systems produce a wide variety of pollutants which are detrimental to human health. Such systems are expensive and does not eliminate or adequately control the toxic emissions from chemically complex MSW. Even new incinerators release toxic metals, dioxins, and acid gases.
6.Electrostatic precipitator and Cyclone separator are the devices which are used to separate particulate matter from the gas or air.
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