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V.RAMALINGAM
By
Clean, Green
andHealthy Schools
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Garbage The biggest
problem
MSW, Biomedical
waste27 October 2013 2
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Puducherry Urbanization
Urban population accountsfor 67%
Third in the country amongst States
and Union Territories with apopulation density of 2,029 per sq.km.
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Developments within
CRZ
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Swadesi cotton mill complex
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Attitude chang
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The mission of the SWM programme is to:
1. Provide students with theopportunity to learn more about
their surroundings and participate
in service projects at school and
in the community.
2.Promote environmental awareness and
develop social and life skills;
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4. Promote awareness of environmental
issues and the responsibility
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3.Increase student awareness of
environmental issues and give themthe ability to make a change;
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Develop and drive the implementation ofaction plans to reduce, reuse and recycle
waste within the school environment
Raise awareness of the schools
waste minimisation
programme and highlight the
roles that each of the key groupsneed to play to make it a success
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Set up and chair regular meetings
with the school waste management
committee
Raise awareness within thesurrounding community.
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At School Level
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A recycling and waste prevention
program can:
1. SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT
Reduce local pollution
Divert waste from landfills or incinerators
2 SAVE MONEY
Reduce school solid waste and disposal costs
Bring in revenue through sale of recyclables
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3.TEACH AND ENGAGE
Develop collaboration, andDevelop leadership and
environmentalstewardship skills
Engage community and
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Mixed discards become useless
Waste.
Unmixed, each item is a Resource.
WET waste = food waste, raw+cooked
DRY waste = recyclables
IF THERE IS NO SPACE FOR
WASTE DISPOSAL, MINIMISE
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Most common recycle material in school
trashMost cost-effective materials to recycle
Local resources for recycling your materials
Find out - -
Evaluate!
Study Your Trash
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Find out what is going into the trash:
What are the most common materials?
What can be reduced by better buying?
What can be reused?
What can be recycled?
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The Solid Waste Management Hierarchy
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Reduce
'source reduction', means consuming and
throwing away less
It includes:
Purchasing durable, long-lasting goods. Using products with less packaging.
Source reduction actually prevents the generation ofwaste in the first place, management and goes a
long way towards protecting the environment and
reducing costs.
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ReuseReusing items by repairing them, giving
used items to needy groups or selling them will
also reduce waste.
Reusing products, when possible, is even betterthan recycling
Ways to Reuse
Reuse cloth napkins or towels. Refill bottles.
Donate old magazines .
Reuse boxes.
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Recycling turns materials that would become
waste into valuable resources
Recycle
Materials like glass, metal, plastics and paperare collected, separated and sent to facilities
that can re-process them into new materials
or products.
Recycling is one of the best
environmental success stories
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Recycling Facts
While recycling has grown in general,
recycling of specific materials has grown
even more drastically:42% of all paper,
40% of all plastic soft drink bottles,
55% of all aluminium beer and soft drink cans,57% of all steel packaging,
and 52% of all major appliances are now recycled.
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This needs a joint effort of
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What
comes fromthe soil
goes back
to the soil.
EVERY SCHOOL MANAGES ITS OWN
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EVERY SCHOOL MANAGES ITS OWN
FOOD WASTES
Every school - teach thestudents how to compost food
waste in flower-pots.
EVERY TEACHER HAS TO DO ITHIMSELF/HERSELF AT HOME
FIRST.
The town has competitions forbest flower, fruit, veg grown on
home wet waste.
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SOURCE REDUCTION QUIZ
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SOURCE REDUCTION QUIZ
Every day we make choices that affectthe amount of waste we produce. Take a
few minutes to consider your
contribution to solid waste stream. Addup the circled numbers in each column
to find your total score.
Use the information detailed at the end of the Quiz to find out if you are utilizing
'Solid Waste Reduction'.
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Do you:
1. Consider the amount of
packaging on an item before
you buy it?
2. Consider the recyclability
of an item before you buy it?
3. Consider whether you
really need something before
you buy it?
neverSometimesoften
3 2 1
3 2 1
3 2 1
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CIRCLE THE NUMBER THAT APPLIES TO YOU
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CIRCLE THE NUMBER THAT APPLIES TO YOU
Do you:
4. Think about what will happen to a
product or a package when you
no longer have any use for it? 3 2 1
5. Try to reuse things you already have
instead of disposing of them and buying
new things? 3 2 1
6. Wash out and reuse plastic bags
in your home? 3 2 1
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CIRCLE THE NUMBER THAT APPLIES TO YOU
Do you:
7. Consider what pollution and
wastes were created in the
manufacture of the things you buy?
8. Take advantage of the opportunities
to recycle in your area? 3 2 1
9. Use dishcloths, sponges and cloth
napkins instead of disposable
paper products? 3 2 1
never Sometimes often
3 2 1
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CIRCLE THE NUMBER THAT APPLIES TO YOU
Do you:
10. Avoid items such asdisposable diapers, razors,
lighters and pens when longer
lasting alternatives are
available?11 Avoid eating in places which
wrap your food in lots of paper
and plastic or ask that less
wrapping be used for yourorder?
12. Compost kitchen scraps and
other compostable matter?
never Sometimes often
3 2 1
3 2 1
3 2 1
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CIRCLE THE NUMBER THAT APPLIES TO YOU
Do you:
13. Talk to store managersabout stocking bulk items or
avoiding packaging?
14. Buy items in bulk?
15. Read consumerinformation articles to find
out about the quality and
durability of products you
buy?
Totals for Each Column:
never Somet imes often
3 2 1
3 2 1
3 2 1
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If Your Score Was: 40 or More
Like many residents, you are
probably contributing your full share
of solid waste to our disposal
facilities, including many kgs of
useable, recoverable materials.
Wh t C Y D ?
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What Can You Do?
Be aware of the amount of trash you haveeach week. Note how heavy it is. What could
be reused, recycled or avoided
entirely?
Next time you go to the store, check to see if
any of the products you normally buy in non-
recyclable containers are also available in
reusable, refillable or recyclable containers.
Avoid products with excess packaging.
If Your Score Was: Between 21 and 39
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If Your Score Was: Between 21 and 39
You are doing some reducing, reusing and/or
recycling. These patterns need to be practisedconsistently by the majority of the population if we
are going to reduce the increasing amount of waste
requiring disposal.
What Can You Do?
Do some comparison-shopping. Consider various
types of packaging and the alternatives that are
available. Considerbuying products in larger quantities or in bulk
quantities. Take your own carrying bags with you
when you shop.
If Yo r Score Was 20 or Less
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If Your Score Was: 20 or Less
Congratulations! Youve obviously done someserious thinking about the need for resource
conservation. Think about the things you do
to conserve resources. Which are you most
proud of? Encourage other people to consider
doing the same. Get involved in the SWM
programmes in your School.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Encourage employees and
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Encourage employees andcustomers to share magazines and
newspaper subscriptions
Encourage speakers at assembly
programmes on topics of waste
reduction/recycling
Store public records oncomputer disks or microfilm
Encourage backyard composting.
Work with resale shops toprovide pickup of clothing.
Give magazines to friends, office
waiting rooms, hospitals, school
home economics classes, etc.
Buy rechargeable batteries.
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Schools
Practice waste reduction,reuse and recycling:
Use reusable items vs. disposable items.
Purchase supplies in bulk where possible.
Set up school recycling programme.
Set up in-house recycling programme for
metal cans
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Schools Cont.
Practice double-sided photocopying.
Reuse scrap paper .Request that suppliers use as much
recycled content material in packaging as
possible.
Request suppliers to provide system to
take back non-recyclable packaging. Encourage employees and customers to
share magazines and newspaper s
Waste Reducing Tips
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Waste Reducing Tips
Organize a team. Involve everyone. Staff,
students, teachers, parents, Pt. time staff, and
also public representatives
Perform a Waste Analysis to determine
where you can reduce, reuse and recycle.
Identify markets for recyclables.
Evaluate where the recyclable
materials are generated and locate
recycling bins efficiently
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Give rewards.
Who come up with fresh ideas for
Refuse,Reduse , Reuse & Recycling.
Recognition could be given to
students by gift certificates, field trips,
certificates, posting of their name and
idea in newsletters and other means.
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Somewhere between 500 billion
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Somewhere between 500 billion
And
a trillion plastics bags are consumed
world wide every year
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One ton of plastics is equivalent
to 20,000 two litre drinks bottlesor 120,000 carrier bags.
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Less than 6% of all
waste plastic getsrecycled, compared with
recycling rates of50 % for paper,
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The world's annual
consumption of plasticmaterials has increased
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Most plastic
recycling plants
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PLASTIC HAZARDS
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The "Throw awayculture" results in these bags findingtheir way in to the city drainage system,
the resulting blockage cases
inconvenience, difficult in maintaining
the drainage
PLASTIC HAZARDS
The hazards plastics pose are
numerous. The land gets littered
by plastic bag garbage presenting
an ugly and unhygienic seen.
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g
bags sometimes die. Plastic goes into the ocean
which is already a plastic infested body of water.
Fish and othermarine species in the water ways,misunderstanding plastic garbage as food items
swallow them and die.
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DRAWBACKS OF RECYCLING
Toxins are released into the air
Plastics can only be recycled 5 to 10
times
What happens then?
It can't be recycled, it can't be reused and
it won't decompose and disappear.27 October 2013 52
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There's harsh economics behind bag
recycling: It costs Rs 1,72,000/= to processand recycle 1ooo kg of plastic bags, whichcan then be sold on the commodities market
for Rs 15,000/=
THEN
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to different partsof ourlands
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Olive ridley sea
turtle, tangled innylon rice bag.
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Picture of garbage bag found floating in the open ocean.
Shoreline fishermen use garbage bags to haul their linesto deep water off of South Point. The strong winds push
the bag with the fishing lines attached out far and they
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What happens to
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balloons
after they are released
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Baby in danger with plastic bag
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Baby in danger with plastic bag
Baby in danger with plastic bag
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So
What We Do?
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If we use a cloth bag,
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g,we can save 6 bags a week
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That's 24 bags a month
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That's 24 bags a month
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That's 288 bags a year
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That's 288 bags a year
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That's 22,176 bags
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, gin an average life time
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If just 1 out of 5 people in our countrydid this
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did thiswe would save
1,330,560,000,000 bagsover our life time
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- CNN.com/asia January 9, 2008
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X
It is possible
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It is possible...
Env.Edn.Cell
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Effective Education This starts out withthe education of our children who often
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the education of our children who often
become the best teachers of adults.
How often are we surprised by the very simple logic
of our children when they say to us, Why do you do
............ that is bad?", "Why do you do ............, that
hurts the environment?".
So the education building blocks
can be our children to help changeadult behaviour
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Simply starting a program
IS a success!27 October 2013 102
for future generation
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