Magic of Rs: Presentation on Waste management for IBS Software
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The document discusses waste management strategies in India, emphasizing the need to reduce waste through refusal, reduction, reuse, repair, repurpose, resell, recycle, and composting. It highlights the severity of waste mismanagement in India and suggests practical actions individuals can take to manage waste effectively. The session aims to encourage environmentally-friendly practices to minimize waste generation and promote sustainable living.
Magic of Rs: Presentation on Waste management for IBS Software
- 1. z The Magic of Rs! Waste Management: ROT OR COMPOST REPURPOSE October 22, 2021 – Session for IBS By Pratima Pandey REPAIR
- 2. z Who is your session presenter today? • Pratima Pandey, M. Phil in Economics with certification in SWM • A decade into volunteering and organizing green events • YouTube Eco-content creator www.youtube.com/user/pratinii
- 4. z Why this session? Waste is • Inevitable • enormous – 1 lakh MT/per day, India among top 10 waste generators of the world • undesirable (https://www.slideshare.net/Pratimapan dey/waste-management-what-and-why)
- 5. z Why this Session: What Waste Does to Us? Diseases due to sanitation issues Diseases by air Pollution Tourism losses Climate change India is “waste mismanaged”: More than 80% of the waste untreated and dumped or burnt …
- 6. z Rs Why This Session: What WE Can Do? WoW (Wealth out of Waste) Huge Pile Smaller pile
- 7. z This Session Part 1: The Rs BUY LESS + THROW LESS + SEGREGATE Part 2: Magic of Rs unveiled REFUSE, REDUCE, REUSE, REPAIR, REPURPOSE, RESELL, RECYCLE, ROT
- 8. Part 1: The Rs: Buy less + Segregate waste + Throw less
- 10. z Waste Segregation DRY | WET | EWASTE | SANITARY Key step for the magic of RECYCLE and ROT (compost) to begin!
- 11. Part 2: Magic of Rs Unveiled
- 12. z REFUSE – Do this and chances are you have less waste to manage! • Single-use plastics like thin plastic bags, cutlery, straws • Non-recyclable plastics – Thermocol etc. • Food items with excessive packaging
- 13. z X STRAWS GROCERY BAGS STYROFOAM CUTLERY REFUSE – Do this and chances are you have less waste to manage!
- 14. z REFUSE – Do this and chances are you have less waste to manage! • Food in multiple, small packaging EVEN if we require greater amounts • Extra food on our plate • Buying more-than-required perishable items
- 15. z REDUCE: If you can’t refuse, reduce • Extra want-based purchases (STOP SHOP) – Go with a list • Shopping online, special SHOPPING FESTIVALS • https://youtu.be/VMUiya8EyPU - Shop for your ‘Needs’, not ‘Wants’, this Diwali
- 16. z REDUCE: If you can’t refuse, reduce Takeaways – Take your own reusable utensils, to cut on packaging from restaurants Buying single-use batteries – rather go for rechargeable ones Printing papers – after use, give it for recycling, use as dustbin liner, or compost it
- 17. z REUSABLE BOTTLES FOR OUTINGS REUSABLE TIFFIN BOXES FOR PARCEL REUSABLE BAGS FOR SHOPPING REDUCE: If you can’t refuse, reduce
- 18. z REUSE • Plastic bottles, bags, boxes for repacking in kitchen, refrigerators, takeaways, sharing food with friends, grocery shopping • Cardboard boxes (Resources on DIY videos) • Toys – Divide toys in two batches • Both sides of paper
- 19. z REUSE – If at all, scout for reusable packaging
- 20. z REFUSE/REDUCE/REUSE • https://youtu.be/lOzoWtSgPvA (Glimpse from my video)
- 21. z Search for a place which can offer food, the eco-friendly, healthy way Take along your water bottle Start a trend – ask for paper straws or else, sip your drink, the old-fashioned way! Order only what you can finish up---cut down on takeaway packaging Take along empty food boxes and bags for food parcels REFUSE/REDUCE/REUSE – Checklist to tick when we go to restaurant – Being the trendsetter
- 22. z REPAIR/REPURPOSE Clothes by stitching, alteration by DIY or by tailors Anything by having DIY repair kit/repurpose kit DIY video channels For fixing torn clothes DIY repair set WD 40 for fixing rusted nails/hinges
- 23. z REPAIR/REPURPOSE • Home appliances, mobiles, laptops, at repair shops – keep contact details of such shops, handymen (carpenters, plumbers, upholsters, and technicians): get the list and share with friends • Company service providers for gadgets, home appliances
- 24. z REPAIR/REPURPOSE 1. Bro4U 2. Helpr 3. Hometriangle 4. Housejoy 5. Localoye 7. Timesaverz 8. Urbancompany 9. Zimmber 10. Joboy (new entry to the list) 11 … Home services Apps https://pratimapandey.wordpr ess.com/category/sustainabil ity-2/page/2/
- 25. z REPAIR/REPURPOSE Internet Rs (resources) to help us repurpose/upcycle existing material
- 26. z RESELL – They deserve a second life, don’t they? Books, clothes, appliances and gadgets, utility items and furniture near you, in your community, and in your city through • Flea market • Person-to-person in residential areas, office place • Facebook marketplace • Donate to charity • Apps
- 27. z RESELL – They deserve a second life, don’t they? List of Apps • Cars and Bikes: Car Dekho, Cars24, Bikes24, Carwale, Droom • Mobiles: Cashify, Instacash • Books: ShowMyBook • Clothes and Accessories: Vinted, PoshmarkIndia • Furniture, home appliances: OLX, Quikr
- 28. z RECYCLE – Segregate and sell/deposit • Paper and cardboard • Plastic • Glass • Metals • E Waste
- 29. z RECYCLE – Segregate and sell/deposit • Recycle service provider apps • Organisations and locations of deposit • Scrapdealers (Aakris, kabaadiwallahs) • Dharavi- reusing used products to make new ones or they chip/melt old material and sell it further up in the chain
- 31. z Rot (or Compost) • Composting – Natural process • (Earlier video shown in last session, more in the upcoming session, but a brief glimpse in this video.) • https://youtu.be/Dk-Zb8ehADs
- 32. z Eco friendly is also pocket friendly Jaggery lemon and citrus peel and water – Bioenzyme – reduce use of cleaning products Cut down packaging and shopping costs Multiple uses of plastic bags, bottles, boxes Making apple cider vinegar Compost
- 33. If we follow Rs, we can be TRENDSETTERS… Are we up for it? If yes, I expect a healthy discussion, now…!
- 34. Connect with me at Thanksforwatching! https://www.facebook.com/ConserveEnvironment/ https://pratimapandey.wordpress.com/tag/environment- conservation/ @pratima.n.pandey Subscribe for “My Waste My Responsibility”
Editor's Notes
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- #16: If you are thinking thrice before buying something due to discount or offers, you are not only being budget wise, you are also eco wise.
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- #19: Toy recycling is the solution of kids’ boredom with existing toys, which in turn, increases life of toys and reduces our spending on them,
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- #25: Session participants, please ensure you get a copy of this ppt so that you can revisit the links and lists at your own convenience. Narmada, request you to facilitate the same as I will provide you the slideshare link of this ppt.
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- #33: A lot of information in the presentation will be useful if we revisit the content…so again request Narmada to arrange for sending the copies of the ppt to the participants.