GARBAGE PROBLEM

What is Garbage?
• Garbage is waste that is generally thrown out
of our homes, offices, parks, shops, etc….

• In our country it mostly consists of rotting

vegetable and food matter, paper, plastic,
glass, rubber, leather, porcelain, metal, rags,
toxic material , building material and soil.
 WHO IS RESPONSIBLE ..……… ?
• Government
• Central Environmental Authority
• Urban Councils and Municipal Councils
• People Who live in society

REASONS …………
• Increasing Population density
• Unauthorized Constructions
• Not Public awareness and wrong attitudes
• Dump waste materials hear & there
It is usually done in a shallow pit in the ground,
along the roadside, on a nearby dumpsite, in low-lying
marshland or in waterways or waterbodies.
• Weak waste collection and cleaning
• Waste Collection is not selective
Due to Insufficient resources
 TYPES OF GARBAGE
DRY waste:-

WET waste:-
 Cont…
TOXIC waste:-

SOILED waste:-
 PROBLEMS
Garbage cause to environmental pollution.
Air pollution
Land pollution
Water pollution

Garbage cause to health hazards.

Left to roads and this breeds insects,
rodents and bacteria that cause and
spread disease
Garbage on the roads are unsafe for drivers &

pedestrians which can cause accidents.

Cont..
Garbage cause to stink
 because it consists of rotting organic
matter.
Garbage remains unclear
because there is too much of it which even
municipal corporations can't get rid of.
Garbage cause to ugly of the environment
because we do not throw it properly in bins.
Garbage cause to impede water in drainage
channels.
SOLUTIONS FOR GARBAGE
PROBLEM
•Stop the importation of packed
stuff

•Recycling

•Making Compost
Stop the importation of packed
stuff

-Stop the importation of not crumbling materials

Ex-Containers of the soft drinks , Beers ,
Cooking oil

-Make laws to import bulk containers of food stuff

which can be repacked within country
 Recycling

-Recycling is the driving force behind

reducing the amount of garbage that sit on
the landfills

- Pop bottle child’s toy

 Making Compost
Steps of making compost

• Punch holes in a garbage can

• Chop plant debris into small pieces and place them inside the garbage
can.
• Spray water over the chopped plant material inside the can.
• Put the lid on the can.
• Place the filled garbage can .
• Turn the can as often as daily, or at least once a week
• Add more plant material at any time.
• Harvest compost after one month
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• Attitudes & habits of the people are
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• So follow 3R process
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