Taking Charge of Waste

Have you ever seen piles of waste lying around your home or school?

Have you ever thought about how this waste is created?

How clean are the surroundings of your school?

Do you find waste lying in or outside your classrooms or on the school grounds?

How can you help in reducing waste?

In what other ways can you help?

How can you REUSE things to reduce waste?

Create an item using waste material that you can give as a gift to someone.

Ask your elders, if there is any village, town or city that they know about, which is known for its cleanliness. You can share the information you learn from your elders in your class.

Find out from your parents or teachers about the Swachh Bharat Mission.

List the things that you can do to keep your home and classroom clean?

Make a list of tools you have seen being used in your school or neighbourhood for cleaning.

Have you ever observed the tools that are used in your home for cleaning? Make a list of these tools.

How is waste created?

How can we manage waste?

To avoid use of plastic bags and bottles, look at your home and school closely. List all the items of plastic material and write how these could be replaced by other safe materials.

Name three things in your school and home that you would put in the green dustbin and three things that you would put in the blue dustbin.

Make a poster to show a village or town that is managing its waste well. Give your poster a suitable title.

You can be a clean town and your partner a dirty town. Engage in a short conversation talking about how you feel about being the way you are.

Imagine you are having a birthday party at your home. What are some of the ways in which you can try to have a zero-waste birthday party? For this, first think about what kind of waste may be created in the birthday party and how you can avoid or reduce it.