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List the biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste products in your school What are the best ways to get rid of this garbage?

Class 6CBSEScienceChapter: Garbage In Garbage
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Biodegradable wastes:

  • Paper container
  • Chalk boxes
  • Pencil scraps
  • Faeces and urine
  • Loose and torn waste paper of exercise notebooks and diaries.
  • Dropout leaves and twigs
  • Fruit peels and flower wastes

Non-biodegradable wastes:

  • Broken glass wares
  • Plastic and geometrical instruments
  • Plastic and polythene containers
  • Wrappers of toffee, aluminium foil
  • Broken iron wire pieces

Disposal of Wastes:

Biodegradable garbage can be put in a pit made in one corner of the school compound. Cover the garbage with soil, spray some quantity of water. When this pit is full of degradable items cover it with a mixture of dung and clay for a few weeks. After a few weeks when an odour stops coming out from the pit. It indicates that all the degradable material has been converted into compost manure. The non-biodegradable garbage can be sold to Kabari or can be dumped in a landfill.
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