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Planned Management of

Waste Materials
How are waste
In most urban areas, domestic wastes are materials disposed?
managed in a planned manner by the Local
Municipal Authorities.

Waste materials are collected and sent
to a waste treatment centre. At the waste treatment centre, waste
materials are separated by types of
recyclable and non-recyclable wastes.

Wastes that can be recycled are compacted and sent to a processing
plant to be made into new materials.

Waste materials that
cannot be recycled
are burned in a
high-temperature block of paper pellets of plastic block of scrap waste glass
incinerator. waste waste metal powder

Wastes from incinerators
are sent to landfills
for disposal.

new paper new plastic new aluminium new glass
bag bottle can bottle
TASK
TASK
Use your creativity to create several bookmarks that contain ways to manage
waste materials and the role of humans to manage waste materials for
sustainable living.

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