Waste Management
2 marks
What are the various awareness programmes by the Government of India on Waste
Management?
What are the problems of wastes?
Describe various types of solid waste.
List the solid wastes.
What are the various effects of excess waste generation?
Define waste management.
Define source reduction.
List the different types of waste you can see in your house.
List out the biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes.
List the advantages of waste management.
Describe the terminology of waste.
List out different checklists for performance audit in waste collection,
segregation, transport, and treatment.
What are the various responsibilities of waste management?
1. What is recycling?
2. Howdoes recycling save energy?
3. Is recycling the best management option? What other options are there?
4. Whyis it important to only put items that can be recycled in the recycling
bin?
5. What is composting?
6. Define waste management?
7. List the different types of waste you can see in your house
8. Define source reduction
9. List the advantages of waste management.
10.Define waste disposal
11.List Examples of residential and commercial solid wastes.
12.What is called Waste generation?
13.List out the Biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes
14.What is called Hazardous wastes?
15.What is called Solid waste management (SWM).
16.Draw Hierarchy of municipal solid waste management.
17.List out the MSWM principles.
18.What is called legislation?
19.Define Waste Analysis
20.Define waste Audit.
21.List Health effects due to improper handling of waste.
22.What are the Environmental effects due to waste.
23.Define segregation
24.Name the sources of solid waste generation
25.What are the types of containers used for onsite storage of waste
26.Define Zero waste
27.What are the 5 R's of zero waste living?
28.What is sustainable living
29.List the benefits of sustainable living.
30.What is the people’s responsibility towards waste management?
6 marks
Discuss various methods to reduce waste in different ways.
Define the various components of solid waste management and its laws.
Discuss your understanding of the different methods of waste collection and its
reduction.
Explain waste characterization.
Mention different types of waste in daily operations.
Discuss biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes.
How are non-biodegradable wastes generated and treated?
Discuss the effects of excess waste generation.
Explain the effects of excess waste generation. (This is similar to the previous
one, so they may be combined.)
Explain the types of solid waste.
Explain the types of solid waste. (This is a duplicate of the above, so they may be
combined.)
Explain the economic benefits of waste reduction.
Explain the economic benefits of waste reduction. (Duplicate, may be combined.)
Discuss waste analysis.
How are waste audits carried out in educational institutions and industry?
How to generate waste audit reports for educational organizations and industry?
Discuss the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP).
Explain assimilative capacity and the precautionary principle.
Explain waste reduction at the individual level.
1. Explain the types of solid waste.
2. Explain how recycling takes place in your locality and list its advantages?
3. Explain different classifications of waste.
4. Define waste management? Explain the problems of solid waste
5. Explain the objectives of 3 R’s
6. Explain the people’s responsibility towards the waste management.
7. Difference between biodegradable waste and non-biodegradable waste
8. Write a note on Polluter Pays Principle (PPP)
9. What is the precautionary principle and why is it important? Explain
10. Write a brief note on carrying capacity.
11. Write a note on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
12. List Six ways to reduce the waste
13. How do you maintain a zero waste lifestyle? Explain
14. What are the environmental impacts of improper solid waste management?
15.Differentiate between Primary and secondary collection of waste
8 narks
1)Describe the components of solid waste management and the laws governing it.
Discuss the solid waste collection systems, route optimization techniques, and
processing of solid wastes reduction.
Outline the design, operation, and maintenance of different methods of treatment.
What are various waste treatment methods? How can one frame a design for such
methods?
2)What are the different types of solid waste, and how to handle it?
3)What are the economic benefits of the solid waste management under Swachh Bharat?
(Include flowcharts to explain various strategies of waste management methods.)
4)What are the strategies of solid waste management by India as a mission under
Swachh Bharat? (Use flowcharts.)
Explain waste reduction strategies with a neat flowchart.
World scenario: explain the scrap trade, extended producer responsibility (EPR),
carrying capacity, and the precautionary principle. Elaborate on each one.
Illustrate sustainable living and waste reduction at the business (producer) level.
What is zero waste living, and how is waste reduction managed at the community
level?
1. Explain the effects of excess waste generation.
2. Explain Waste reduction strategies with neat flow chart.
3. Explain the economic benefits of waste reduction
4. Define source reduction? Explain the effects of source reduction.
5. Explain How to complete waste Audit.
6. List and explain the steps involved in the solid waste management.
7. Explain different disposal methods of waste.
8. Explain i) Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) ii) Polluter Pays
Principle (PPP)
9. Explain 10 things we can do to live a zero waste life?
10. Explain the benefits of zero waste living.
