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Quarter 1 - Module 7 (Week 8)
Waste
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What I Know............................................................................................................................................iii
Lesson 1:
Types of Waste ............................................................................................................. 1
What’s In ................................................................................................... 1
What’s New ............................................................................................... 1
What Is It .................................................................................................. 2
What’s More: …. ....................................................................................... 4
What I Have Learned: ............................................................................... 5
What I Can Do: …. .................................................................................... 5
Lesson 1:
Human Activity and the Environment ........................................................ 7
What’s New ............................................................................................... 7
What Is It .................................................................................................. 8
What’s More A …. ..................................................................................... 11
What’s More B:.......................................................................................... 12
What I Have Learned ................................................................................ 13
What’s I Can Do ........................................................................................ 14
Summary .................................................................................................................................. 15
Assessment: (Post-Test) ......................................................................................................... 16
Key to Answers ........................................................................................................................ 18
References ............................................................................................................................... 19
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Module 7
Pollution degrades the environment for humans and other living things. Because
human actions are the major cause of pollution, we can do something to prevent or minimize
it. This is the reason why we are currently looking for modern solutions to solve the growing
problem of waste and pollution.
In the previous module, you have learned about soil conservation and protection for
the next generation to enjoy and experience. Now, let us dig deeper and learn concepts about
the types of waste and explain how it affects us as well as the environment.
This module is consists of activities that will help develop your critical thinking skills to
have a better and deeper understanding of the planet you live in.
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How to Learn from this Module
To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.
• Answer all the given tests and exercises.
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What I Know
1.E-waste is being sent to landfill at three times the rate of general waste. What types of
appliances make up the greatest percentage of e-waste?
A. copper wirings C. Electrical wires and plugs
B. cellphone, cases, and gadgets D. Washing machines & air conditioners
2. Used pizza boxes should be...?
A. composted C. thrown away
B. reused D. reduced
3.What is it that we get rid of, thrown away, or do not use?
A. garbage C. waste
B. landfill D. Dirt
4. How many times can glass be recycled?
A. 5 years C. never
B. 1 month D. Indefinitely
5. What is the process of reclaiming raw materials and reusing them to create new products?
A. recycling C, reducing
B. composting D. Reusing
6. Which recycling bin does soda cans go?
A. plastic C. paper
B. metal D. none of the choices
7. How does recycling help the Earth and the environment?
A. makes more garbage C. less pollution
B. helps people make more waste D. causing less garbage
8. Which of the following items should NOT be put in a compost?
A. plastic containers C. leaves
B. food scraps D. wood clippings
9. What is termed as the conversion of organic waste into a substance that helps make the
soil healthier?
A. incineration C. composting
B. recycling D. biodegration
10. Which is NOT considered hazardous waste?
A. car battery C. electronic devices
B. clothing D. auto fluids
11. What can you recycle?
A. paper, plastic, glass, metal C. dirty diapers
B. food D. hair
12. What is recycling?
A. wasting stuff C. making clothing
B. reusing items D. buying more
13. Which of the following materials is non-biodegradable?
A. plants B. plastic C. banana peel D. paper
14. What does reduce mean?
A. using more B. using less C. save the Earth D. waste
15. Why are composting and recycling beneficial?
A. reduces amount of waste C. increases waste
B. makes us rich D. because our parents
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Types of Waste
Lesson
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What’s In
What’s New
1. How many of those environment friendly activities have you done? Why do
you practice this?
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What Is It
In some parts of Cagayan de Oro, flooding is expected whenever there is strong rain and
winds. The aftermath of the flooding will have exposed another problem: poor waste
management and the clean-up of the streets due to garbage carelessly thrown everywhere.
Read the article below to know more about it.
It couldn’t be simpler than this: The recent flooding in Cagayan de Oro exposed
the city’s lack of appropriate drainage facilities.
At first glance, irresponsible dumping of trash could easily be attributed to the lack
of discipline among residents in the spot, in the larger scale; however, it
undeniably exposes the locality’s lack of efficient garbage collection and waste
disposal scheme.
Section 10. Role of LGUs in Solid Waste Management says that segregation and
collection of solid waste shall be conducted at the barangay level specifically for
biodegradable, compostable, and reusable wastes: provided that the collection of
nonrecyclable materials and special wastes shall be the responsibility of the
municipality or city.
Source: https://mindanaogoldstardaily.com/waste-management/
Waste is anything that we get rid of, throw away or do not use. While some items
inarguably cannot be used again, many are tossed before their time. Today, waste is a huge
problem, affecting every part of our environment, from our waterways to our atmosphere, our
grassy fields to our forests, our plants to people. Waste are broken down into four parts as
written below:
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Four Different Types of Waste Generated by Humans
1. Liquid Waste
Liquid waste is commonly found both in households as well as in industries. This waste
includes dirty water, organic liquids, wash water, waste detergents and even rainwater.
Waste water may also contain organic substances and nutrients that are of value to
agriculture, or may be hazardous die to the chemicals or pathogens it contains like liquid waste
blood from hospitals.
2. Solid Waste
Solid waste can include a variety of items found in your household along with commercial
and industrial locations.
Plastic waste – This consists of bags, containers, jars, bottles and many other products
that can be found in your household. Plastic is not biodegradable, but many types of plastic
can be recycled.
Paper/card waste – This includes packaging materials, newspapers, cardboards and
other products.
Tins and metals – appliances, product packaging, paint cans
Ceramics and glass – figurines, jalousie, wine or liquor bottles. Glass can be recycled
indefinitely.
3. Organic Waste
Organic waste is another common household. All food waste such as raw peelings and
stems, garden waste such as grass clippings, branches and leaves; manure and rotten meat
are classified as organic waste. Over time, organic waste is turned into manure by
microorganisms. However, this does not mean that you can dispose them anywhere.
Organic waste in landfills causes the release of greenhouse gases like methane, so it
must never be simply discarded with general waste.
4. Hazardous Waste
Examples of theses wastes are batteries, fluorescent bulbs, electronics and small
appliances, oil, gasoline, and auto fluids.
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What’s More
Solid
Organic
Hazardous
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What Have I Learned
1.After knowing about how humans generate waste in everyday life, what will you do to
reduce the build-up of waste? Cite concrete examples.
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2.What types of solid waste do you produce in your home? What could be done to each type
and what goes to the disposal site or dumpsite ?
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What I Can Do
Germany
South Korea
Singapore
Netherlands
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1. What country do you like best with regards to their waste management program? Why?
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Impacts of Waste to Human
Lesson Health and the Environment
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The waste humans generate has been detrimental to the environment for quite some
time now. Humans are generating too much trash and cannot deal with it in a sustainable way.
Waste that is not biodegradable and cannot be properly be recycled is filling our oceans and
landfills, thus killing wildlife animals. If we are not careful, it will soon be the reason of our
demise.
At the end of this lesson, we will tackle how waste affects people’s health and the
environment.
What’s New
Activity #1:Solid Waste Word Search
Directions: Find fifteen (15) words related to the lesson about waste by highlighting. List
down the 15 words you found on the boxes below.
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7 15
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What Is It
Modernization and progress has had its share of disadvantages and one of the main
aspects of concern is the pollution it is causing to the earth – be it land, air, and water. With
increase in the global population and the rising demand for food and other essentials, there
has been a rise in the amount of waste being generated daily by each household. This waste
is ultimately thrown into municipal waste collection centers from where it is collected by the
area municipalities to be further thrown into the landfills and dumps. However, either due to
less resources or inefficient practices, not all of this waste gets collected and transported to
the final dumpsites. If at this stage the management and disposal is improperly done, it can
cause serious impacts on health and problems to the surrounding environment.
Waste that is not properly managed, especially excretions and other liquid and solid
waste from households and the community, are a serious health hazard and lead to the spread
of infectious diseases. Unattended waste lying around attracts flies, rats, and other creatures
that in turn spread disease. Normally it is the wet waste that decomposes and releases a bad
odor. This leads to unhygienic conditions and thereby to a rise in the health problems.
Waste dumped near a water source also causes contamination of the water body or
the ground water source. Direct dumping of untreated waste in rivers, seas, and lakes results
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in the accumulation of toxic substances in the food chain through the plants and animals that
feed on it.
Disposal of hospital and other medical waste also requires special attention since this
can create major health hazards. This waste generated from the hospitals, health care centers,
medical laboratories, and research centers such as discarded syringe needles, bandages,
swabs, plasters, and other types of infectious waste are often disposed with the regular non-
infectious waste.
Loss of Biodiversity
Demands for new landfill sites results in the clearing of large amounts of vegetation
adn alterations to the natural environment. This can displace hundreds and thousands of
species which live in the surrounding habitat. Over time, excessive land clearing can result in
extinction of many species and a significant loss of biodiversity.
Pollution
If a landfill site is not properly managed, a toxic pollutant known as leachate can
escape into the surrounding groundwater, causing environmental problems for plants and
animal living nearby. Leachate is a liquid pollutant caused by waste breaking down that
contains high levels of heavy metals, chemical compounds, pesticides, and solvents which
filter down into the bottom of a landfill site. The growing level of waste generation can increase
the risk of leachate production.
REDUCE
Reducing waste is a matter of planning ahead. In the case of food, for example, there are
many ways to reduce waste.
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Start a compost pile in the backyard. That way, instead of heading to landfill where it
won’t decompose for hundreds of years, food gets a second life as a great fertilizer.
You can then use your garden to grow food, and avoid having to buy fruits and
vegetables that come in packaging.
REUSE
Shop secondhand. It helps others make money off their unwanted items. At the
same time, it keeps old items out of the landfill and saves the resources and energy
needed to make new ones.
Be creative. For example: turning unused mason jars into decorative ornaments at
home, sew some old jeans into an apron, etc.
Turn used paper into art supplies or scrap paper for making shopping lists.
RECYCLE
Don’t just toss everything in the trash. Lots of things (like cans, bottles, paper,
and cardboard) can be remade into either the same kind of thing or new products.
Making new items from recycled ones also takes less energy and fewer resources
than making products from brand new materials.
Aluminum cans
Cardboard
Electronic equipment
Glass (particularly bottles and jars)
Magazines/Newspaper
Metal
Paper
Plastic Bags & Bottles
Steel Cans
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What’s More (A)
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What’s More (B)
Types of How are these Effects on Human Effects on the Ways to Eliminate
Waste wastes Health Environment
Generated?
Solid Used plastic bags Inhalation of Plastic is a toxic Using ecobags or
from the market microplastics if not pollutant to bayong when going
and other stores disposed properly, humans, plants, and to the market.
causing lung animals.
problems
Liquid
Solid
Organic
Hazardous
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What I Have Learned
Activity #4: Journal Writing
Directions: Learn the value of your thoughts! Answer the following questions like you write
on your diary or journal. Write your thoughts in more five sentences or more. Expound your
ideas and be creative. Write legibly. You may use another sheet of paper.
2.What are the five ways our house or school could start recycling?
5.What policies could our city or municipality make to encourage waste segregation?
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What I Can Do
Directions: You are going to make an Ecobrick using PET bottles with loose non-
biodegradable waste. The bigger bottle, the more points you gain. Make sure to use existing
non-biodegradable waste for this project. Used Follow the directions below. Pass it to your
science teacher within the deadline set.
What is an EcoBrick?
An Ecobrick is a plastic bottle stuffed tightly with clean and dry non-recyclable
materials. EcoBrick is a suitable building block for any construction such as garden spaces,
walls, and full scale buildings. These bottles have been used around the world for over 20
years as an insulative building brick. EcoBricks are also used to make colorful furniture.
Doing EcoBricks is simply forming a habit of rather than throwing our garbage in the
trash can, just put it in a disposable bottle. This is an easy way to make a small impact.
Materials:
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SUMMARY
Waste is anything that we get rid of, throw away or do not use. There are four types of
waste, namely: solid, liquid, hazardous, and organic
The waste humans generate has been detrimental to the environment for quite some
time now. Humans are generating too much trash and cannot deal with it in a
sustainable way. Waste that is not biodegradable and cannot be properly be recycled
is filling our oceans and landfills, thus killing wildlife animals. If we are not careful, it will
soon be the reason of our demise.
We may imagine our impacts as ‘human-in-nature’—polluting oceans, stripping
mountains—but don’t forget, nature is also present within daily human life. Even in our
urban spaces, nature is embedded all around us, from the cotton in our clothes to the
wood in our furniture.
Though we people have caused grave imbalances in nature that now threaten us,
we believe that people also have the capacity to make meaningful change for or only
home and all those who share it. Let’s not forget that we are all deeply interconnected
with nature, and that we, too, can be heroes for the planet in our own ways!
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Assessment: (Post-Test)
Multiple Choice. Answer the question that follows. Choose the best answer from
among the given choices.
1.E-waste is being sent to landfill at three times the rate of general waste. What types of
appliances make up the greatest percentage of e-waste?
A. copper wirings C. Electrical wires and plugs
B. cellphone, cases, and gadgets D. Washing machines & air conditioners
2..What is it that we get rid of, thrown away, or do not use?
A. garbage C. waste
B. landfill D. Dirt
3. What is the process of reclaiming raw materials and reusing them to create new products?
A. recycling C, reducing
B. composting D. Reusing
4. How does recycling help the Earth and the environment?
A. makes more garbage C. less pollution
B. helps people make more waste D. causing less garbage
5. Which of the following items should NOT be put in a compost?
A. plastic containers C. leaves
B. food scraps D. wood clippings
6. What is termed as the conversion of organic waste into a substance that helps make the
soil healthier?
A. incineration C. composting
B. recycling D. biodegration
7. Which is NOT considered hazardous waste?
A. car battery C. electronic devices
B. clothing D. auto fluids
8. What is recycling?
A. wasting stuff C. making clothing
B. reusing items D. buying more
9. Which of the following materials is non-biodegradable?
A. plants B. plastic C. banana peel D. paper
10. Why are composting and recycling beneficial?
A. reduces amount of waste C. increases waste
B. makes us rich D. because our parents say so
11. What possible wastes could be widely generated in hospitals?
A. food scraps, plastic containers C. grass cuttings, animal manure
B. blood samples, plastic syringe D. paper plates, plastic cups
12. Jaco, a Grade 11 student, threw his old electronic devices carelessly. What could be the
consequence of his action?
A. Nothing would happen to his trash.
B. The garbage collectors will collect his trash.
C. Toxic metals in his electronics will be retrieved, thus harming the atmosphere.
D. None of the above
13. What possible consequences could arise if we throw our trash everywhere?
A. Climate change
B. Human health would deteriorate
C. Loss of biodiversity of plants and animals
D. All of the above
14. Why shouldn’t we throw biodegradable trash carelessly?
A. Lack of oxygen causes the production of methane
B. Trash would undergo aerobic respiration with the presence of bacteria
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C. Lack of methane gas causes the production of harmful oxygen
D. Trash would undergo aerobic respiration with the presence of fungi
15. Which of the following situation would be best done to address waste?
A. Buy local goods C. Avoid eating too much meat
B. Reduce, reuse, recycle D. Shop secondhand always
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