Your class has under taken an awareness compaign for swachch bharat you often notice residents around your school dump garbage out on the street of giving it to the garbage collector follow up questions
FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS
WHAT ROLE CAN YOUR SCHOOL...? HOW COULD SHE/HE?
Answers
Organic waste - Compost your wet waste. Your wet waste contributes to 60% of your city's trash, and makes up most of the weight of the collected garbage. So just by redirecting all of it into composting, you can make a sizable difference.
If you own land adjacent to your residence, create a compost pit and compost in batches. Use soil and/or dry leaves to cover up "fresh" wet waste. Use vermicomposting to speed up the process.If you do not own land, compost in containers. Check out products like Daily Dump for simple solutions to composting in apartments. We know that composting can even be done in simple cardboard boxes. It's just a matter of using enough dry matter, and keeping enough aeration to speed up composting.Utilize your compost either by donating it to nearby nurseries or gardens, or else just grow your own food in buckets, by growing it directly in the fertile compost. To learn more about growing food in all kinds of space availability in cities, check out Green Souls*, or attend one of their workshops. Learn more about permaculture.
Inorganic waste - Reduce, if not, then Reuse, if not, then Recycle
This is a prompt for the discussion part in ASL speaking. You can say the following lines or something similar in your discussion for the prompt:
Student A: Hey the entire nation is swept over by the Swach Bharat Abhiyan, and the residents of colonies around our school are still dumping garbage on streets like stone-age man!
Student B: Why do they do it? Do the garbage collectors not collect garbage there?
Student A: How can that be? Municipal Corporation has assigned garbage collection facility to each and every area in the city. This is because people of these colonies are careless and uninformed.
Student B: Well, we must do something. Otherwise serious health problems may be caused due to the throwing of garbage in the open. Stink, squalor, flies, etc can cause health issues to the residents.
Student A: We, the students can really a play a revolutionary role in checking this unhygienic menace and nuisance of throwing garbage in open.
Student B: Yes, the first and foremost measure we need to take is we ourselves must never ever throw garbage in the open. If we have the bad habit of flinging polythene carry-bags full of garbage in streets, how can we ask others not to throw it; we must desist doing it.
Student A: You are right. I confess, I myself have thrown garbage in streets at times!Student B: The second most important step to be taken is, we must not let any of our family members do this irresponsible act. There is almost a student in each family; if each student shoulders the responsibility of not letting his or her family members indulge in this reckless act of dumping garbage in the open, the problem will be controlled automatically.
Student A: I agree with you completely.
Student B: The third very important measure to this problem could be going to those colonies where plots are being used as dumping grounds and reason with people. We can form teams and carrying posters depicting negative effects of garbage on the people living in the surroundings and general environment, we can hold seminars or street plays to sensitize people to myriad health related problems caused by the garbage mounds.
Student A: The fourth important initiative that we can take is appeal to the Mayor of the Municipal Corporation to make arrangements for proper garbage disposal and clearing in the colonies. These measures put into practice, individually or collectively can really make a difference.
Student B: I am feeling really excited. Let's get cracking. I feel if we need faster results, we can also take media's help also, can't we?
Student A: Sure we can! Let's call some of our friends, who can be a part of our campaign team. Media, we will decide later.