🗑️Our Surroundings

🗑️Waste Management

What Is Waste?

Waste is anything we don’t want or need anymore. We usually throw it away.

📦 Examples of waste:

• Banana peels 🍌

• Empty tins and plastic bottles 🧃🥫

• Worn out clothes👟

• Old papers and plastic bags 📄🛍️

• Used food cans

• Used cooking oil

• Broken toys

• Used take-away containers

😷 What Can Waste Do to Our Environment?

If we throw waste everywhere, it makes our surroundings dirty, smelly, and unsafe.

🛑 Waste can:

• Attract rats and flies 🐀

• Carry germs that spread diseases like cholera 🤒

• Block drains

• Make the air and water unsafe🏞️

• Cause harm to animals if they eat the waste

🕳️ What Is a Landfill?

A landfill is a big piece of land where waste and rubbish are buried in the ground.

People throw waste into bins, then garbage trucks collect it and take it to the landfill. There, the waste is spread out, pressed down, and covered with soil to stop flies and bad smells.

✅ After many years, a landfill can become a park or sports field.

🟫 What Is a Dumping Site?

A dumping site is a place where people throw rubbish anywhere, like in open fields, behind houses, or by the road.

Differences between a landfill and a dumping site

Feature	Landfill	Dumping Site
Type of Place	Planned and organized	Unplanned and often illegal
Managed By	Government or waste management services	Usually not managed at all
Cleanliness	Cleaner, covered with soil to reduce smell and flies	Very dirty, smelly, and full of germs
Location	Built in special areas away from people	Often found behind homes, in bushes, or roadsides
Health Risk	Lower risk of disease if managed well	High risk of disease and pests
Environmental Impact	Less harmful if properly managed	Very harmful to the environment

📝 Both landfills and dumping sites help keep waste in one place so that it doesn’t spread everywhere.

🧃🪵 Useful Things We Can Make from Waste

Not all waste is useless! We can reuse some items to make new things at home or school.

🧠 Examples of things made from waste:

• Old mayonnaise jar → Flower pot 🌸

• Plastic bottle → Bird feeder 🐦

• Wire and sticks → Toy cars and slingshots 🚗🎯

• Fabric scraps → Dolls or decorations 🎀

💡This is called reusing – giving waste a new job instead of throwing it away.

🧼 How to Manage Waste Properly

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