Clean, Green and Healthy Schools

By
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Garbage The biggest problem

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MSW, Biomedical waste

Puducherry Urbanization

Urban population accounts for 67%

Third in the country amongst States and Union Territories with a population density of 2,029 per sq. km.
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Swadesi cotton mill complex

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Attitude change
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The mission of the SWM programme is to:

1. Provide students with the opportunity to learn more about their surroundings and participate in service projects at school and in the community.
2.Promote environmental awareness and develop social and life skills;
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3.Increase student awareness of environmental issues and give them the ability to make a change;

4. Promote awareness of environmental issues and the responsibility and opportunity each of us have to make a difference.
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Develop and drive the implementation of

action plans to reduce, reuse and recycle waste within the school environment

Raise awareness of the schools

waste minimisation programme and highlight the

roles that each of the key groups need to play to make it a success
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At School Level
Set up and chair regular meetings with the school waste management committee

Raise awareness within the surrounding community.

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A recycling and waste prevention program can:

1. SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT

Reduce local pollution Divert waste from landfills or incinerators

2 SAVE MONEY
Reduce school solid waste and disposal costs Bring in revenue through sale of recyclables
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3.TEACH AND ENGAGE

Develop collaboration, and Develop leadership and environmental stewardship skills Engage community and various community members
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Mixed discards become useless Waste.

Unmixed, each item is a Resource.
WET waste = food waste, raw+cooked
DRY waste = recyclables

IF THERE IS NO SPACE FOR WASTE DISPOSAL, MINIMISE THE WASTE !

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Evaluate!

Study Your Trash

Find out - Most common recycle material in school trash

Most cost-effective materials to recycle

Local resources for recycling your materials
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Find out what is going into the trash:

What are the most common materials? What can be reduced by better buying? What can be reused? What can be recycled?

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The Solid Waste Management Hierarchy

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Reduce
'source reduction', means consuming and throwing away less It includes: Purchasing durable, long-lasting goods. Using products with less packaging.
Source reduction actually prevents the generation of waste in the first place, management and goes a long way towards protecting the environment and reducing costs.
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Reuse
Reusing items by repairing them, giving used items to needy groups or selling them will also reduce waste. Reusing products, when possible, is even better than recycling

Ways to Reuse
Reuse cloth napkins or towels. Refill bottles. Donate old magazines . Reuse boxes.
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Recycle
Recycling turns materials that would become waste into

valuable resources

Materials like glass, metal, plastics and paper are collected, separated and sent to facilities that can re-process them into new materials or products.

Recycling is one of the best environmental success stories

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Recycling Facts

While recycling has grown in general, recycling of specific materials has grown even more drastically:
42% of all paper, 40% of all plastic soft drink bottles, 55% of all aluminium beer and soft drink cans, 57% of all steel packaging, and 52% of all major appliances are now recycled.
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What comes from the soil goes back to the soil.

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EVERY SCHOOL MANAGES ITS OWN FOOD WASTES

Every school - teach the students how to compost food waste in flower-pots. EVERY TEACHER HAS TO DO IT HIMSELF/HERSELF AT HOME FIRST. The town has competitions for best flower, fruit, veg grown on home wet waste.
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SOURCE REDUCTION QUIZ

Every day we make choices that affect the amount of waste we produce. Take a few minutes to consider your contribution to solid waste stream. Add up the circled numbers in each column to find your total score.
Use the information detailed at the end of the Quiz to find out if you are utilizing 'Solid Waste Reduction'.

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CIRCLE THE NUMBER THAT APPLIES TO YOU

Do you: 1. Consider the amount of packaging on an item before you buy it? 2. Consider the recyclability of an item before you buy it? 3. Consider whether you really need something before you buy it?
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Do you: 4. Think about what will happen to a product or a package when you no longer have any use for it?
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5. Try to reuse things you already have instead of disposing of them and buying new things?
6. Wash out and reuse plastic bags in your home?
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Do you: 7. Consider what pollution and wastes were created in the manufacture of the things you buy?
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8. Take advantage of the opportunities to recycle in your area? 9. Use dishcloths, sponges and cloth napkins instead of disposable paper products?
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Do you: 10. Avoid items such as disposable diapers, razors, lighters and pens when longer lasting alternatives are available? 11 Avoid eating in places which wrap your food in lots of paper and plastic or ask that less wrapping be used for your order? 12. Compost kitchen scraps and other compostable matter?
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Do you: 13. Talk to store managers about stocking bulk items or avoiding packaging? 14. Buy items in bulk? 15. Read consumer information articles to find out about the quality and durability of products you buy? Totals for Each Column: Add Column Totals for the Grand total:
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If Your Score Was: 40 or More Like many residents, you are probably contributing your full share of solid waste to our disposal facilities, including many kgs of useable, recoverable materials.

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What Can You Do?

Be aware of the amount of trash you have each week. Note how heavy it is. What could be reused, recycled or avoided entirely? Next time you go to the store, check to see if any of the products you normally buy in nonrecyclable containers are also available in reusable, refillable or recyclable containers. Avoid products with excess packaging.
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If Your Score Was: Between 21 and 39

You are doing some reducing, reusing and/or recycling. These patterns need to be practised consistently by the majority of the population if we are going to reduce the increasing amount of waste requiring disposal. What Can You Do? Do some comparison-shopping. Consider various types of packaging and the alternatives that are available. Consider buying products in larger quantities or in bulk quantities. Take your own carrying bags with you when you shop.
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If Your Score Was: 20 or Less

Congratulations! Youve obviously done some serious thinking about the need for resource conservation. Think about the things you do to conserve resources. Which are you most proud of? Encourage other people to consider doing the same. Get involved in the SWM programmes in your School.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

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Encourage employees and customers to share magazines and newspaper subscriptions

Give magazines to friends, office waiting rooms, hospitals, school home economics classes, etc.

Encourage speakers at assembly programmes on topics of waste reduction/recycling

Store public records on computer disks or microfilm

Encourage backyard composting.

Work with resale shops to provide pickup of clothing.

Buy rechargeable batteries.

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Schools

Practice waste reduction, reuse and recycling:

Use reusable items vs. disposable items. Purchase supplies in bulk where possible.

Set up school recycling programme.

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Practice double-sided photocopying. Reuse scrap paper . Request that suppliers use as much recycled content material in packaging as possible.

Request suppliers to provide system to take back non-recyclable packaging. Encourage employees and customers to share magazines and newspaper s
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Waste Reducing Tips

Organize a team. Involve everyone. Staff, students, teachers, parents, Pt. time staff, and also public representatives

Perform a Waste Analysis to determine where you can reduce, reuse and recycle. Evaluate where the recyclable materials are generated and locate recycling bins efficiently

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Identify markets for recyclables.

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Give rewards.
Who come up with fresh ideas for Refuse,Reduse , Reuse & Recycling. Recognition could be given to students by gift certificates, field trips, certificates, posting of their name and idea in newsletters and other means.

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Somewhere between 500 billion And a trillion plastics bags are consumed world wide every year

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Less than 1% of bags are recycled. It cost more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one.

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One ton of plastics is equivalent to 20,000 two litre drinks bottles or 120,000 carrier bags.
Households are the biggest source of plastic waste, but recycling household plastics presents a number of challenges. One of these relates to collection.
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Less than 6% of all waste plastic gets recycled, compared with recycling rates of 50 % for paper, 40 % for metals and 22 % for glass.
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The world's annual consumption of plastic materials has increased from around 5 million tonnes in the 1950s to nearly 100 million tonnes today.
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Most plastic recycling plants use up to 100,000 gallons of water per day.
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PLASTIC HAZARDS The hazards plastics pose are numerous. The land gets littered by plastic bag garbage presenting an ugly and unhygienic seen.

The "Throw away culture" results in these bags finding their way in to the city drainage system, the resulting blockage cases inconvenience, difficult in maintaining the drainage
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It has been observed that the animals eating the bags sometimes die. Plastic goes into the ocean which is already a plastic infested body of water. Fish and other marine species in the water ways, misunderstanding plastic garbage as food items swallow them and die.

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DRAWBACKS OF RECYCLING
Toxins are released into the air Plastics can only be recycled 5 to 10

times
What happens then?
It can't be recycled, it can't be reused and
it won't decompose and disappear.
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There's harsh

economics behind bag

recycling: It costs Rs 1,72,000/= to process and recycle 1ooo kg of plastic bags, which can then be sold on the commodities market for Rs 15,000/=

THEN WHERE DO THEY GO?

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Olive ridley sea turtle, tangled in nylon rice bag.

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Picture of garbage bag found floating in the open ocean. Shoreline fishermen use garbage bags to haul their lines to deep water off of South Point. The strong winds push the bag with the fishing lines attached out far and they are able to catch open water fish. This bag broke loose and drifting free, a hazard to marine life, 27was October 2013

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What happens to balloons after they are released

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Balloons can kill wildlife

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Baby in danger with plastic bag

Baby in danger with plastic bag

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So
What We Do?

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If we use a cloth bag, we can save 6 bags a week

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That's 24 bags a month

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That's 288 bags a year

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That's 22,176 bags in an average life time

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If just 1 out of 5 people in our country did this we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our life time

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- CNN.com/asia January 9, 2008

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It is possible...

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Env.Edn.Cell Puducherry

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Effective Education This starts out with the education of our children who often become the best teachers of adults.
How often are we surprised by the very simple logic of our children when they say to us, Why do you do ............ that is bad?", "Why do you do ............, that hurts the environment?".

So the education building blocks can be our children to help change adult behaviour
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Simply starting a program

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IS a success!

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for future generation ??

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Thank you

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