To what use can you put the following kinds of garbage and how?

(i) rotting smelly garbage

(ii) dry leaves collected in a garbage

(iii) old newspapers

Correct the definitions of certain terms given below by changing only one word.

(i) Compost: Substances converted into manure for use in industries.

(ii) Landfill: Garbage buried under water in an area.

(iii) Recycling: Reuse of unused material in the same or another form.

Provide the suitable term that expresses the meaning of each of the following statements.

(a) Greeting cards made from newspaper.

(b) Contents of the waste bins.

(c) Worms converting certain kinds of waste into manure.

(d) An area where a lot of garbage is collected, spread out and covered with soil.

Paheli was writing a letter to her friend. She crumpled and threw the first draft of her letter on the floor as it had become untidy. Similarly she crumpled and threw 6 more papers on the ground. In the end, she picked them up and put them in a polythene bag and threw it on the road outside her house. Do you think Paheli’s action were responsible? What would you have done if you were in her place?

Read the poem written below and then answer the questions from the information gathered from the book or elsewhere.

Blue and green

Two bins, you mean?

Yes, they are there

To throw your waste.

But not in a hurry

Nor in a haste.

Select from waste, sieve if seems muddy

Separate all item and when they are ready

Place in a blue, or one that is green

For a voyage to the landfill, or for composting.

(i) Name the two kinds of waste that need to be separated from each other in two different waste bins.

(ii) Name two items of waste each that need to be sent to a

(a) landfill, (b) for composting.