You have been working on an environmental project for your school in which you dig a garbage pit for biodegradable rubbish and put earthworms in it to help to decompose the waste.
Write a report about this project for your school magazine.
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We throw out so much rubbish or garbage everyday from our homes, schools, shops and offices. The grains, pulses, biscuits, milk or oil purchased in shops, are packed in plastic bags or tins. All these wrapping material go out as garbage. We sometimes buy things that are rarely used and often thrown into the garbage
We generate so much garbage in our day-to-day activities! We often throw groundnut shells on public places, in buses or trains, after eating the nuts. We throw away the ticket when we get off a bus. A child might go on sharpening pencils just for fun. If we make mistakes or spill ink on our notebook, we tear off the sheet and throw it away. And we also throw away many domestic wastes such as broken toys, old clothes, shoes and slippers.
What if the garbage is not removed from our homes and surroundings? How do you think, this will harm us? When safai karamcharis take the garbage from the bins, where does the garbage go and what happens to it? Is it possible for all of this garbage to be changed into something that will not harm us? Can we contribute towards this in any way? We will look for answers to these questions, in this chapter.
Children from Paheli and Boojho's school did a project called 'Dealing with Garbage'. We will learn about some of the things they learnt through this project.
16.1 DEALING WITH GARBAGE
Safai karamcharis collect the garbage in trucks and take it to a low lying open area, called a landfill (Fig. 16.1).
There the part of the garbage that can be reused is separated out from the one that cannot be used as such. Thus,the garbage has both useful and non- useful components. The non-useful component is separated out. It is then spread over the landfill and then covered with a layer of soil. Once the landfill is completely full, it is usually converted into a park or a play ground.For the next 20 years or so, no building is constructed on it. To deal with some of the useful components of garbage, compost making areas are developed near the landfill. What is compost? Let us learn about it, from the following activity.
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