KNOW YOUR HOME WASTE

People generally do not segregate waste at home there is a tendency of disposing of whatever the trash
at home all at once and there is usually a single dustbin in a family

The objective of today's session is to know your waste and how to segregate them for better utilization
and to promote the 3Rs, i.e., Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse.

Start by listing down the things that we generally put in the dustbin. What can you recall?

The wrappers of chocolates/biscuits you ate, Banana peel, kitchen waste, or maybe the dirt after
cleaning your room.

How do you dispose them? Either into the dustbin or throw them seeing an empty place. The majority
of the population does the same because we don't know how to segregate our waste.

Let us know about waste segregation at home.

 The first to practice waste management at home is to separate kitchen waste and other waste.
 Keep separate containers for dry waste and wet waste in the kitchen.
 Collect dry waste in separate bags, one for decomposable and others for not decomposable.
 Wet waste collected in the kitchen should be daily disposed to the nearest point of disposal.
 Collect glass, wire, cloth, paper, plastic, rubber, fabric, etc. and handover to the west collector
every week or every month.

The next question can be, what if we do not have any waste disposal point nearby? What to do in that
scenario?

Form a group of like-minded people in our society or community. If there is no waste collection point,
contact your municipality and ask them to put waste segregation drums.

Explain to them what waste segregation is and, most importantly, why it is necessary to practice waste
management at home.

1. To reduce pollution of air, water, and land.

2. To decrease the steadily increasing threshold of the plastic landfill and the non-decomposable
matter on our planet.
3. Considering the current scenario, we can protect ourselves from infectious and contagious
diseases caused due to unhygienic practices of waste management.
4. In case you have segregated your waste like the plastics, papers, and any reusables. It can be
sold to nearby vendors who deal in scraps to have a substantial economic benefit.

It can be applied to the students as well if come to campus considering the current scenario as it doesn't
require human contact, and we can reap a similar benefit along with keeping our surrounding clean as
well.