The Women Rag-Pickers of Mumbai” As the term ‘rag-picker’ sounds very low so does their job. My study includes several visits to the Govandi Dumping Ground‚ Mumbai‚ interviewing the women rag-pickers working there‚ visiting their slums‚ meeting with the social workers of Street Mukti Sangathan‚ studying the problems faced by these women and also keeping a track of their progress. I used personal interviewing of women rag pickers‚ their boss (the person to whom they sold their collected rags)‚ the
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Swimming in Waste: An Analysis of the Documentary film The Dive Jeremy Seifert’s informative documentary The Dive looks deeper into the American enigma of how and why we have 96 billion pounds of food waste a year in our country when 1 billion people a day are starving worldwide. Seifert tells his viewers’ information that can prove there in lay a serious problem. For example there is 96 billion pounds of food wasted every year in America which is enough to feed the nation of Haiti for 5 years
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India’s booming urbanization brings the problem of waste management. The amount of waste is increasing at a high pace and waste management is likely to become a critical issue in the coming years. Rag pickers play an important‚ but usually unrecognised role in the waste management system of Indian cities. They collect garbage in search of recyclable items that can be sold to scrap merchant (paper‚ plastic‚ tin...). This activity require no skills and is a source of income for a growing number of
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An open dump is defined as abandoned piles of household garbage‚ bags of yard waste‚ appliances‚ old barrels‚ used tires‚ and demolition debris such as lumber‚ shingles‚ pipes and asbestos can threaten the health of humans‚ wildlife‚ and the environment. (Epa.state.il.us‚ 2014) Open dumps pose the following health‚ safety‚ and environmental threats: • Fire and explosion • Inhalation of toxic gases • Injury to children playing on or around the dump site • Disease carried by mosquitoes‚ flies
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Waste Management Segregation of recyclable waste at source In all parts of the country‚ people by and large do salvage re-usable or saleable material from waste and sell it for a price‚ e.g. newspaper‚ glass bottles‚ empty tins‚ plastic bags‚ old clothes etc.‚ and to that extent such reusable / recyclable waste material is not thrown out for disposal. However‚ a lot of recyclable dry waste such as waste paper‚ plastic‚ broken glass‚ metal‚ packaging material etc.‚ is not segregated and is thrown
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Pollution‚ contamination of Earth’s environment with materials that interfere with human health‚ the quality of life‚ or the natural functioning of ecosystems (living organisms and their physical surroundings). Although some environmental pollution is a result of natural causes such as volcanic eruptions‚ most is caused by human activities. Sidebars | SIDEBAR | Climate Change 2001:The Scientific Basis | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an international group of scientists
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KARNATAKA STATE OPEN UNIVERSITY MUKTHAGANGOTRI‚ MYSORE – 570006 Post Graduate Diploma‚ Diploma and All Certificate Courses Time Table /August –2014 NEW SCHEME=80 MARKS AND SUBJECT 04-08-2014 MONDAY 05-08-2014 TUESDAY OLD SCHEME=90 06-08-2014 WEDNESDAY 7-08-2014 THURSDAY 08-08-2014 FRIDAY 09-08-2014 SATURDAY C-III /PDE-43 Fiction C-IV /PDE-44 Prose C-V /PDE-45 Growth of the English Language and Literacy Criticism --------- DIK-03 bÀAzsÀ¸ÀÄì
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managing waste Throughout the annals of human development and societal evolution‚ man has always found methods and strategies of alleviating the risks posed to his survival by natural occurrences or even by acts provoked by his own relation to the environment. Considering the fact that today’s waste are different from yesterday’s waste although building up over time‚ the researcher explores the current methods of managing waste in light of the complexities and compositions of today’s waste. 2.6.1
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Waste management 1. What are the health problems due to air pollution 2. What are the effects on health due to water pollution 3. Describe Minamata disease 4. What are the main diseases caused by pesticides 5. What was the main reason for the disappearance of the Indian vulture 6. Describe biomagnifications 7. Why do we need waste management 8. What is wet scrubber method? 9. What are the three types of radio active waste. Where are they generated 10. Distinguish
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GEOGRAPHY WASTE GENERATION AND ITS MANAGEMENT DEFINATION OF WASTE DEFINATION OF WASTE Waste‚ or rubbish‚ trash‚ junk‚ garbage‚ depending on the type of material or the regional terminology‚ is an unwanted or undesired material or substance. It may consist of the unwanted materials left over from a manufacturing process (industrial‚ commercial‚ mining or agricultural operations‚) or from community and household activities
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