How can We Manage Our Waste

How can We Manage Our Waste

by Madeline Sy

The waste that we generate per day is more than what landfills can accommodate. This is why some waste are left uncollected in different places. Uncollected waste causes land, water and air pollution. and any form of pollution is harmful to all organisms. Therefore we should practice 5R's (reduce, reuse, recycle, recover, and repair) to manage waste in the environment and help make our soroundings clean.

Multiple Choice

Why are some waste in other places left uncollected?

• Our landfills have a lot of space for our waste

• Our landfills cannot accomodate all our waste

• Our collected waste products are fewer everyday

• our garbage collectors in our place are few

Multiple Choice

What will happen to uncollected waste?

• It can produce waste

• It can cause pollution

• It can produce plastic

• It can cause garbage

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to use the 5R's technique?

• It can produce more waste

• It can pollute the environment

• It can harm living things

• It can lessen the waste everyday

Multiple Choice

What is the main reason for practicing the 5R's?

• To combat environmental problems

• To pile more trash in the landfill

• To worsen the environmental problems

• To throw the garbage everywhere

Multiple Choice

How can we save our planet from its environmental problems?

• Be a good istener

• Be a good child

• Be a good steward

• Be a good pollutant

​5 R's Technique

​ There are strategies that can be used in handling waste materials found in our home and community such as 5 R's technique.

​1. Reducing- using alternative materials such as using eco bags instead of plastic cellophane to lessen our waste from plastics

​2. Reusing- finding another way for materials that have already been used such as using old but usable shoes or donating your old clothes.

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​3. Recycling- producing new product out of discarded materials such as making decoration from used papers.

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​4. Recovering - making the most out of waste by generating energy such as using peelings of fruits and vegetables as plant fertilizers.

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​5. Repairing - Fixing broken things so that they can be used again such as sewing old clothes.

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Multiple Choice

If you have garden in your backyard, which of the following materials cannot be used as fertilizers for your plants?

• manure from cow

• dried leaves

• rice husk

• candy wrappers

Multiple Choice

Your father is so eager to fix your house after it was destroyed by a strong typhoon, what waste management did he apply?

• Recycle

• Repair

• Reduce

• Reuse

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best substitute for plastic cellophane if you want to go to the grocery store?

• Newspapers bags

• Bigs cans

• Banana leaves

• Cloth bags

Multiple Choice

Asshanah gave her old dresses to her younger sister. What is she doing?

• Recycling

• Reducing

• Reusing

• Recovering

Multiple Choice

Akemiro used few big boxes to plant tomatoes instead of many small pots. What technique did he apply?

• Recycling

• Reducing

• Reusing

• Repairing