Taking Charge of Waste LOOKING AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES - Taking Charge of Waste

You can be a clean town and your partner a dirty town. Engage in a short conversation talking about how you feel about being the way you are.

How is waste created?

Ask your elders, if there is any village, town or city that they know about, which is known for its cleanliness. You can share the information you learn from your elders in your class.

Create an item using waste material that you can give as a gift to someone.

Draw or paste a picture of a locality. Identify the places where there is garbage or wastewater or smoke by circling them in red. Try to find out how the waste gets there.

Have you seen waste in nature? What do you think happens to the waste of animals, dried leaves and so on in a forest?

Imagine you are having a birthday party at your home. What are some of the ways in which you can try to have a zero-waste birthday party? For this, first think about what kind of waste may be created in the birthday party and how you can avoid or reduce it.

Name three things in your school and home that you would put in the green dustbin and three things that you would put in the blue dustbin.

How can we manage waste?

Have you ever observed the tools that are used in your home for cleaning? Make a list of these tools.

Make a poster to show a village or town that is managing its waste well. Give your poster a suitable title.

To avoid use of plastic bags and bottles, look at your home and school closely. List all the items of plastic material and write how these could be replaced by other safe materials.

List the things that you can do to keep your home and classroom clean?

Recall different activities that you and your elders do during the day. How do these activities create waste? Finally, what do we do with the waste?