Today we are going to understand reuse and recycle
First
Reuse
Re means again and use means to utilize so it means utilizing plastics again without changing its purpose. Let us understand with examples.
Say that you have a sanitizer bottle and then after repeatedly using it the sanitizer is finished.
So what do we usually do in this case?
We throw the bottle but instead of doing that we can fill that bottle again with sanitizer.
As we reuse our clothes by giving them to our younger sibling similarly we need to reuse plastic.
Lets see some more examples
-Rather than buying a new soap liquid container every time after the soap is finished, reuse that soap container.
-Rather than disposing of the plastic cutlery only after single use, try to wash and use the plastic cutlery again.
-You can do the same with plastic polythenes etc. Reusing is an excellent way to use both thermoplastics and thermosetting plastics.
Now let us talk about recycling.
Recycling is the collection of used materials (that would otherwise be waste) to be broken down and remade into new products. Here comes a question. What can be recycled and what cannot be?
So answer to this question is the segregation of waste.
We have four dustbins
-Wet Waste
-Dry Waste
-Sanitary Waste
-E-waste
The wet waste dustbin is green in colour. In this dustbin, we put vegetable peels, fruit peels, eggshells, fish bones or chicken bones. The waste we put in this can be made into a compost
The dry waste dustbin is blue in colour. In this dustbin, we put plastic bottles, polythenes, straws, newspapers, paper etc. All this waste is recycled.
Note only thermoplastics can be recycled.
The Sanitary waste dustbin is yellow in colour. In this dustbin, we put gloves, masks, shoe covers, pads etc.
The E-waste dustbin is red in colour. In this dustbin, we put the hazardous waste like sims of mobles, refrigerators etc.
See I have started segregation at home-
Segregation in my society
That is all for today
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