🗑️Care of the Surroundings

🗑️ What is Waste?

Waste is anything we no longer need and throw away. We call it rubbish or garbage.

🧺 Examples of Waste:

• Empty drink cans 🥫

• Used paper 📝

• Plastic bottles 🍼

• Food peels 🍌🍊

• Old clothes 👕

• Broken toys 🧸

• Plastic bags 🛍️

• Used tyres 🚗

• Empty mayonnaise jars 🫙

If waste is thrown everywhere, it makes our homes, schools, and villages dirty and unsafe.

♻️ The 3 Rs: Smart Ways to Manage Waste

The 3 Rs are three smart and helpful ways we can use to manage waste in our environment.
They help us keep our surroundings clean and reduce the amount of rubbish we create.

Let’s look at each one!

🔻 1. Reduce

Reducing waste means using fewer things so that we make less waste.

🧠 For example:

• Buying one big bottle of cooking oil instead of many small ones.

• Carrying your own shopping basket instead of using a plastic bag every time.

🎉 This helps us save money and protect the environment!

🔁 2. Re-use

Re-using waste means using something again instead of throwing it away after one use.

🧠 For example:

• Using an empty mayonnaise jar as a flower pot 🌸

• Re-using old clothes as cleaning cloths 🧽

• Turning used tyres into garden chairs or swings 🛞

🎉 This gives waste a new job and reduces the amount we throw away!

🔄 3. Recycle

Recycling waste means changing waste into something new and useful.

🧠 For example:

• Old cans can be melted and made into new cans 🥫

• Plastic bottles can be used to make chairs, toys, or buckets 🪑🧸🪣

• Paper can be turned into new books and boxes 📦📚

🎉 Recycling helps save resources and keeps our environment clean.

😷 Why Should We Manage Waste Properly?

If we do not handle waste the right way:

• It makes our surroundings dirty

• It pollutes the water we drink

• It can carry germs that make us sick

• It can block roads and paths

• It is expensive to clean up and remove

🧠 Quick Quiz – Can You Answer?

✅ Which of the 3 Rs means using something again?
✅ What can an old tyre be used for?
✅ Which R turns waste into something new?

📚 Summary

• Waste is anything we no longer need and throw away.

• The 3 Rs (Reduce, Re-use, Recycle) are ways of managing waste.

• Reducing waste means using fewer things so that we make less waste.

• Re-using waste means using something again instead of throwing it away.

• Recycling waste means turning waste into something new and useful.

• Managing waste helps keep our surroundings clean and safe.

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