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Taking Charge of Waste

CBSE · Class 3 · EVS

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How Waste is Created

  • Waste is created through our daily activities like eating, playing, studying, and buying things
  • Common waste includes old clothes, tins, bottles, paper, fruit peels, plastic wrappers, pencil shavings, and old batteries
  • Sometimes waste ends up in garbage piles around our homes, schools, and neighborhoods
2

The 3 Rs of Waste Management

  • REDUCE: Create less waste by buying only what we need and using things until they cannot be used anymore
  • REUSE: Use things again instead of throwing them away - like making quilts from old sarees or bags from old clothes
  • RECYCLE: Making new objects from thrown away materials like metal, glass, plastic, and paper
3

Waste Separation and Dustbins

  • Two types of dustbins: Green and Blue
  • GREEN DUSTBIN: For things that rot easily - dried leaves, fruit peels, vegetable waste, eggshells
  • Green dustbin waste mixes with soil and becomes compost (food for plants)
4

Clean Places and Success Stories

  • Silluk village in Arunachal Pradesh is a 'zero waste village' with clean roads and no trash
  • Chhota Narena was one of the first villages to become waste-free
  • Cities like Indore and Mysuru are known for being clean

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Waste is created through our everydayReduce means creating less waste byReuse means using things again insteadWe separate waste into two typesPlaces like Silluk village in Arunachal

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