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h. The public places should be made horn free zones.
i. There should be plantation on both sides of road.
j. Random explosion of fire crackers should be banned.

k. The vehicles should be repaired time and again.
l. People should be made aware about causes and effects of sound pollution.
m. Strict rules and regulations should be formulated and implemented to control sound
pollution.

Activity: 4
Visit your locality and observe the types of pollution in the surrounding. Make a list of
effects and ways to control them by concerned authority. Discuss them in class.

7.4 Management of Solid Wastes

People utilize various materials in day to day life. Food, clothes, metals, glass, rubber,
etc. are widely used. After their use, some are thrown as wastes. They are thrown here
and there in the surroundings. A large amount of wastes are produced from industries,
markets, hospitals, workshops, offices, schools, etc. Random discharge of wastes
produced from different sources litters the surrounding, pollutes environment, spreads
many diseases, affects land and water ecosystem, makes the area unsuitable for living. So,
it is most essential to manage solid wastes.
Management of solid wastes means adoption of various activities that include collection,
transfer, treatment, burial, burning and disposal of solid wastes in a systematic way.

Introduction to solid wastes
People need various materials in day to day
life. Fruits and vegetables are packed in paper
or plastics. Fruits skin and unwanted vegetable
parts are removed. Bones and other parts may be
discarded before cooking meat. Clothes and shoes
are thrown when torn. Glass pieces and metals are
dumped when broken and damaged. Some portion
of remaining of food stuff are dumped when not Fig: 22
consumed. The syringes and medicine bottles are
discarded after their use. Solid wastes

The solid materials that are left after consumption and utilization are called solid wastes.
For example, plastics, paper, metals, glasses, rubber, food stuff, fruit skin, animal parts,
vegetables parts, etc.

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