waste segregation - why ? startup doc
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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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