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Classify the following waste materials found in your house under the given

heads:


1. Plastic bags 2. Cooking waste 3. Milk sachets 4. Glass pieces 5. Metal clips 6. Thermocoal 7. Tissue paper 8. Leather chappals 9. old clothes 10. saw dust


11. Electrical wire.


Biodegradable material is capable of being decomposed to smaller products by microorganisms.

The non-Biodegradable material is not capable of being decomposed to smaller products by microorganisms and leads to pollution.


1. Plastic Bags cannot be decomposed so they are nonbiodegradable.


2.cooking waste, tissue paper and saw dust can be decomposed.


3. Milk sachets are generally made of polythene so they are nonbiodegradable.


4. Glass pieces, metal clips, and thermocol cant be decomposed so they are nonbiodegradable.


5. if no extra chemicals are added to leather then leather chappals are biodegradable.


6 old clothes are biodegradable if made of cotton or biodegradable threads.



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