waste segregation - why ? startup doc

Garbage segregationWhy should we do it ?

Bangalore

Garden city then

Garbage city now

Life story of our garbageIts birth – in dustbins from our home

Picked up in an auto, transferred to a truck

Finally, dumped in waste dumpon the outskirts of the city.

Or burnt

Problems with these 2 waysof getting rid of our garbage

Dioxins

FuransCO, CO2, NO2

1. If we burn it

Toxic gases are emitted, that we breathe inCause Cancer, Respiratory diseases.Cause birth defects in new born when inhaled bypregnant mother.

2. If we dump it

Toxic material in waste goes into our ground water.

Disease bearing bacteria breed in the garbage. 1 cubic meter of garbage breeds 7.5 lakh flies.

Most of our garbage isalmost immortal

Decomposition times

Banana Peel: 3-4 weeks

Paper / cardboard: 2 months

Steel Can: 50 years

Plastic Bags :  20-1000 years

Plastic Jug: 1 million years

Our garbage is actually killing us

We can't burn it

We can't bury it.

We can't dump it and forget about it.

It never dies.

It haunts us forever, breeding diseases in the dump, or fouling our air with toxic gases.

We can't kill it, but we can Recycle it

Plastic

Paper

Similarly Glass, Metals

To recycle, we need to segregate If garbage is segregated, it can be Reused or Recycled.

Mixed waste pollutes. Segregated waste is clean, a Resource.

Wet wasteDry waste

In sum We cannot kill our garbage by dumping or burning it.

We can only Recycle it.

To recycle we need to segregate at the source, which is our homes.

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