Overcoming the burden of managing everyday waste
Every house has a set practice for disposing of waste that is generated inside the home. Now countering and challenging the existing system is like crossing the Berlin wall. Hell lot of effort! It is a long but soothing journey to try and get the changes in your home.
To make the process of segregating and disposing of waste responsible and easy, here’s how you can easily go through it -
1.Wet waste: The waste which has moisture content and the one which comes from our kitchen though scraps is collected very consistently everyday. You can either separately keep it in a different bin or compost the waste for your plants.
2. Dry Waste: This includes in-home dust which is mopped and dusted every day. It should be maintained separately and kept in a separate bin meant for dry waste.
3. Hazardous waste: As this is generated very few times every month in the form of Sanitary napkins or medicine wraps or soiled tissues and in some cases diapers, these can be disposed of by packing them in a wrapper and applying a red dot and giving it in possible cases in biomedical waste.
4. Plastic and paper: Recyclable plastic is stored and occasionally given to the kabadiwalas. The paper and cardboard should be given to the concerned raddiwala. The milk bags are to be collected and sold to the kabadiwala or you can now send them to organizations through the mail that collects and recycle milk bags.
5. The clothes can be reused by weaving them into carpets and blankets. If not you can donate them to the needy and poor. You can use them as doormats in your house too.
Contributed By- Poonam Shah, Social Lab.
Social Lab Environmental Solutions is a waste management consultancy company providing end-to-end consultancy services to the ULBs on solid waste management and plastic waste management. Our core expertise includes capacity building, waste assessment, IEC campaign design & implementation, scheme compliance documentation, GPS collection route designing, and monitoring, and providing technical advisory and market linkages for efficient wet and dry waste management.
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