Waste materials (or rubbish) especially household wastes, are called garbage. It is called 'kole in W Hi Every household produces a lot of garbage (or wastes) daily which is collected in dustbins ps offices and schools also produce garbage or rubbish everyday What does the garbage (or rubbish) This will become clear from the following discussion.
We peel off many fruits and vegetables before eating or cooking them. Sometimes cooked food also cunased in our homes and it is called left over food. The leaves of potted plants also keep on falling day in our homes. The peels of fruits and vegetables, left-over cooked food and fallen leaves of ted plants are thrown away as garbage. Every household buys a large number of packaged products such as door (atta), rice, pulses, biscuits, chocolates, milk and oil, etc, which are packed in plastic bags. ardboard cartons, paper wrappers, plastic containers, tirs and many other kinds of packing materials All the packing materials are useless and go out as garbage. We also tear off various kinds of papers (including fox from our notebooks) and throw them into dustbins. The waste papers also generate garbage.
In every household, some old, unwanted and useless plastic objects such as polythene bags, plastic homes and containers, broken plastic toys, etc, keep on collecting which are ultimately thrown as garbage. Alt of glass articles such as used glass bottles, other glass containers, broken window panes, broken imes, and broken glass tumblers, etc., also make up garbage. Many old and useless metal objects such wwed aluminum foils, rusted iron grills, door handles, etc, find their way to garbage. The old clothes, discarded shoes and slippers are also thrown away as garbage.
When people get off from a bus, they throw the bus tickets on the road; some people eat the groundnuts and throw their shells in buses, trains and other public places; whereas others throw banana skins on the Every time we throw away something, we are producing garbage, Though the garbage produced by gle penon may be small but a small amount of garbage thrown by many, many persons in an area can big heap of garbage. In fact, we are generating mountains of garbage everyday!
If garbage is not removed from our homes and surroundings regularly, our homes and surroundings me dirty, Some of the garbage (like left-over food) will rot giving off foul smell. The rotting garbage e a breeding ground for disease-causing organisms such as cockroaches, flies and mosquitoes They will spread diseases to us.
The garbage collected in dustbins in our homes, shops, offices and schools is taken away by sanitary staff (safai karamcharis) of our area and put into big garbage dumps constructed by the Municipality at various locations (see Figure 1). From the garbage dump, garbage is loaded into trucks and disposed of in a number of ways depending on the nature of garbage. We will now describe what are the main types of garbage; how we can use some of the household garbage ourselves in a useful way; how a part of the garbage can be recycled or reused; and how the remaining useless part of garbage is disposed of properly in a way that it does not harm our surroundings.