waste management using the 5rs techniques

Where do you want to live?

Nobody wants to live in a world full of wastes.

What is waste?

When a material can no longer be used after it has served its purpose, it is considered as waste.

How much waste is produced in the Philippines every day?

35,000,000 kilos of garbage or solid waste every day

Waste Management Using the 5Rs Techniques

Reporter:Duane Garret T. Lerias

5Rs Techniques

Reduce Reuse Recycle Recover Repair

Reduce

Reduce simply means to lessen the amount of trash that will add to the environment

Ways to reduce trash

Buy rechargeable batteries instead of disposable batteries

Buy products that have bigger packs

Reuse

Reuse means to find other uses for materials that are already used

Recycle

Recycle means creating a new product out of a material that already served its purpose

Paper recycling

SCIENCE FACTDid you know that recycling two aluminum cans saves enough energy to power a

television?

Recover

Recovering energy that comes from the trash itself

Incineration technology – one way of generating energy from wastes

It involves producing electricity by burning garbage in the incinerator.

Recovering wastes also involves segregation.

The garbage collected are segregated in a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).

The collected garbage are sorted out according to class.

Repair Repair means to fix slightly broken

things be used again

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