Sunday, July 1, 2007

Reusing of garbage.

How to reduce at source?
Basically the products we consume are of two types. One, the product that we had already used and can’t work for us no more for eg used paper, diffused bulb and another, the packaging material like polythene bag, can, bottle etc. So by used the things that uses less packaging material or things that can be used for longer period of time. For example, using fiber bags instead of plastics one during the shopping.
Reuse of garbage.
The most of the things we regard as garbage may be the raw materials for other industries. Turning the garbage in the useful raw materials is reuse. The different disposable things like papers, plastics, metal, biodegradable products can be separated and can still be reutilized.
Most of the domestic garbage, about two-thirds or more is usually of decomposable in nature, also known as biodegradable garbage; these types of garbage can be turn into compost and can be reused. Non-biodegradable substance can be separated and can be sold or reuse in other purpose.
The cycle of reusing can be depicted follows:
Industry--------Garbage collector-----------Consumer
In this cycle, consumer is the main source for production of garbage that converts the product from industry or producer into garbage. If it is disposed into the safe hands of Garbage collector it can be recycled into raw materials that is now ready to dispatch to industry, and this is how this cycle is completed.
To recycle these products, the cycle should be active between producer and consumer. These products should be handed to garbage collector or industry that manufacture raw material of that type. Or simply we can compost it for our own kitchen garden.

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