Summary

Summary

Conclusion :

• Landfills: Landfill is an area where the garbage collected from a city or town is dumped. The       area is later converted into a park.
• Large areas used for waste disposal are called landfills.
• There are mainly two types of wastes based on their ability to rot over some time:
• Biodegradable
• Non-Biodegradable wastes.
• Biodegradable wastes: Wastes that rot by the action of decomposers are called biodegradable wastes.
• Non-biodegradable wastes: Wastes that do not rot by the action of decomposers are called non-biodegradable wastes.
• Composting: Converting plant and animal waste including that from kitchen, into manure, is called composting.
• Recycling organic wastes like vegetable peels, waste food, leaves, etc., by burying them in compost pits is called composting.
•  Vermicomposting: Composting with the help from kitchen garbage and a type of earthworm, called red worms, is    called vermicomposting.
• Vermicomposting and landfills are two ways of managing solid wastes.
• Paper can be recycled to get useful products. Plastics cannot be converted into less harmful substances by the process of composting.
• We need to generate less waste and find ways of dealing with the increasing amount of garbage in our surroundings.
• Recycling: The process by which waste materials are used to make new products.
• Dead plants and animals and their products decay while objects like plastic and glass do not.
• By practicing the concept of 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle), we can manage our wastes well.