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Zero waste Kanyakumari
Module for Schools
By,M.Kohila,
Junior B.T.,S.M.R.V.H.S.S.,
Nagercoil,Kanyakumary District
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Our District - Kanyakumari
Kanyakumari is noted for tourism.Thiruparappu waterfalls.Chothavilai Beach, near Nagercoil. Thirparappu Waterfalls.Mathur Aqueduct (Mathur Hanging Trough Bridge.)Padmanabhapuram Palace.Vattakottai Fort.Suchindrum (Thanumalayan) Temple.Chitharal Jain Monuments (about 35 km near Marthandam)Udayagiri Fort.Mathur Hanging Trough, near Thiruvattar Ulakaiaruvi waterfalls, about 20 km from Nagercoil .Pechiparai,Perunchaani,Chittar Mukkadal dams .Sanguthurai Beach, about 8 km from Nagercoil . Salt pans.
Kanyakumari District is a district of TamilNadu state, India; it is the southernmost land area of mainland India. Kanniyakumari District is one of the smallest District in Tamil Nadu is surrounded by majestic hills, plains and colourful seashores. The District is known as “The district of Ponds” It is at the tip of the Indian Peninsula, and faces the Indian Ocean.
Beautiful Kumari
Thiruvalluvar statue
Vivekananda memorial rock
Think ! How will you
protect these beautiful
places?
Have you ever visited
these places?
Mahathma Gandhi memorial at Kanyakumari
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River Parali
Mathur Hanging Trough
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Manakkudi bridge Mukkadal Dam
Pechippaarai Dam Vattappaarai
Keerippaarai streamThiruparappu waterfalls
Important places to visit in our district
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Salt pan in our district
Padmanabapuram palace
Jain temple at Chitharal
Sothavilai beach
Paddy fields Coconut trees
Agriculture:Kanyakumari District accounts for more than 95% of the production of natural rubber in the state of Tamil Nadu. Rubber is cultivated mainly in the hilly areas (on the western ghats) in the interior, while paddy fields and other crops are mainly found on the plains, near the coast.
Rubber trees
Important places to visit in our district
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Veli malai
Kalikesam Udhayahiri fort
Keerippaarai Forest
Forests Thirkumalai, Thadagaimalai, Pongaimalai, mahendragiri, Verapuli, Velimalai,
Old Kulasekaram, Kilamalai, Asambu. Etc.
Marunthuvazh malai
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Save nature Enjoy beauty
Present condition
Now a days every body lead a fast life. Time is not enough for them to enjoy the beauty and to preserve that for future. If it continues, we will leave only desert for our followers.
Desert
World Wetlands Day - February 2Did you know?
Activity 1: Plant trees in your school campus , street and near home.
2. Take a survey how many trees you see in you school, street, home. Compare it with other children.Find whose area is cooler than others.
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Health and environment are interrelated. Environment means the air, soil, water ……. Etc. which surround us. When the environment is not protected, it will affect our health. Accumulation of discards in our surrounding provides a shelter for a lot of disease causing organisms like mosquitoes, flies, Rodents etc. They cause diseases like dengue, Malaria, Filaria, Chikungunya, Swine flu….. etc.
Increase sanitation – Reduce diseases
Clean Hands Save Lives !
Activity:1.List out the discards you can observe in your school campus.2.List out the discards you can observe in your street.3.Celebrate Global hand washing day on October 15.
Attention Health depends on personal hygiene and environmental health.Changing napkins in thrice a day keep you healthy.Prevention is better than cure.
Health and Environment
Napkins picture
Personal hygiene
How do these discards cause diseases?Do you have the above mentioned diseases in your area?
Filaria
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Attitudei. Throw away
ii. The waste thrown
Use and throw cups and spoons
Look at this picture.Think and answer the following questions:1. What are the girls doing?2. What does the cup and spoons made of?3. What will they do after finishing their meal?4. Can we recycle or reuse the cups?5. How can we reduce these discards?
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Buy-Use – Throw(Conversation in an office)
Rahim: I have arranged for a marriage party in my house tomorrow .You must attend the party. I have invited all the office people.Kadhar: Yes, I will come.Rahim: I have arranged a special party for you.Kadhar: What! Special party?Rahim: You come and see tomorrow. ( Next day, marriage party is celebrated at Rahim’s home.Banana leaves are used to serve meals.)Kadhar: Rahim! Now a days plastic plates are available. You might have used them for the feast. It is very easy to serve. All the people use this. Why do they serve in the banana leaves?Rahim: Yes.You are right. But nobody care about the discards secreted by this. We pile up a lot of garbage in the earth using plastic and thermacol plates. So that I have arranged for banana leaves. Kadhar: That’s correct. See, cool drinks are there but there is no straw.Rahim: Cool drink bottles are specially designed to drink directly with out using the straw. Then why should we use the straw unnecessarily.Kadhar: That’s right . What is this? Here the tea is supplied in silver cups. If you use the paper cup , we need not clean it again. Why do you prefer this silver cup?Rahim: Yes Kadhar,we could use paper cups instead of plastic cups. After using the things once used , there are so much of garbage's are secreted. It is better
to use silver cups to avoid the garbages isn’t it?Kadhar: There are a lot of possibilities to spread diseases if the silver cups are not cleaned properly.Rahim: But , We should not use the tumblers which are not cleaned properly. If you consume water with a dirty silver tumbler you will be affected by dissentry and vomiting which can be cured. But if you consume water with plastic cups , you will be affected by the chemicals which are leached from the plastic cups in the tea . It causes many dangerous diseases. The chemicals also cannot be separated from our body.Kadhar: Is it? Here after I will use silver cup only to drink tea. I suggest this idea to our manager to buy some silver cups for our office use. So hat we need not to buy paper cups for each and every party.Rahim: Exactly. I also accept with you.Kadhar:I understand that we should get rid of use and throw policy.
Say True or false: silver cups are better than plastic/paper cups.
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(Conversation between Malaria Mosquito and Dengue
Mosquito)
Cartoons of two Mosquites
Malaria : Hai, Dengue, how are you? I have not seen you for many
days?
Dengue : Yes, Malaria. I have gone to Kasikuppam. How are you
now?
Malaria : I am not in a good condition.
Dengue : Why do you say like that?
Malaria : Earlier, In this area there was a lot of garbage every where.
We
were living together happily.
Dengue : What happens now?
Malaria : Now, people are aware of the environment. The city is very
clean.
We can not see garbage anywhere.
Dengue : How did the change come?
Malaria : All happened by the people only. People have started
thinking of this.
Dengue : Is it? How did they think about it?
Malaria : They have separated the garbage in to degradable and non
degradable items, and sent them to the municipality.
Dengue : Is it? It is a big wonder.
Malaria : And the municipally clears off the garbage from the public
places.
So we don’t see the garbage in the city.
Dengue : Oh! There is no garbage to dwell. Then, where do you live
now?
Malaria : Now, we are living in a slum at the end of the town. People
say
that the slum will be cleaned by the municipality very
soon. Our
condition will be very critical.
Dengue : I am extreme sorry to hear your sad story. Ok it is the time
for me
to meet my friends, Bye.
Hi Dengue ! How are you?
Hi ! Malaria!
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Economics
Dialogue between Rajesh and Raman in the railway station.
Rajesh : Hello, I am Rajesh and You ?
Raman : My name is Raman. I am a teacher.
Rajesh :Good, I am a computer Engineer, working in Chennai
(Drinking
water)
Raman : I am going to Chennai to see my daughter. Brother, How
much
did you give for the water bottle?
Rajesh : Rs. 14 (throwing away the bottle through the window after
drinking)
Raman : Is it so! I have bought 1 liter of water for Rs two you have
given
Rs.12 only for the bottle. Now you have thrown away the
bottle
too.
Rajesh : What shall I do with the empty bottle? So I have thrown
away the
bottle.
Rajesh :You have paid even for the empty bottle. Then, why do
you throw it away? Do you know the effects of this?
Rajesh : What are the effects? Tell me.
Raman :The substances that you throw away such as plastic bottles,
and
plastic cups make the soil pollutants. The water is
stagnated in
the plastic things, and mosquitoes, lay eggs in it and
breed.
So we get a lot of diseases and we spend a lot of money to
cure
it.
Rajesh :Do we have so much problems by using plastic bottles?
Raman :Not only that, you must know one more thing.Our Govt
spends a
lot of money to remove the things we throw away
carelessly.
Rajesh :What you say is right. I have understood clearly that our
economy is very much affected by the discards. I will be
very
careful about it here after.
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Justice
Prodigal son (story)
Malan is a mischievous boy.He has a sister named Shanthi.
Malan would always quarrel with his sister. Oneday Malan’s mother said to
him, “ Malan, today I am not feeling well. House is full of dust. Will you
clean this? Malan replied his mother , “Cleaning the house is not the work
of boys , it is the duty of the girls. I will not clean he house ,you say to
Shanthi to do it .
Hearing this , Malan’s father said, “ Shanthi went to grand mother’s
house.So you just clean the house.”
Malan said , “ I will call her up and ou tell her to clean the house. If my
friends noticed me cleanin g the house, they will tease me .” After telling
this , he went to play. Malan’s mother cleaned the house painfully.
Next day, the teacher taught a lesson about the “zero waste
management.” The teacher said to them , “Who will clean the waste of
your house?” All the girls stood up for the question . The teacher said to
the boys “ Won’t you clean your house? The boys replied chorus , “ It is
the duty of the girls”.
The teacher said , “ You are wrong my dear students. It is our duty to
clean off the dust whenever we see. Do you know our national father
Mahathma Gandhi himself cleaned the ‘Ashram’? Dear students, it is our
duty to clear away the dust and put it in a proper place. Don’t think that it
is the duty of others”.
The teacher emphasized the students to reduce the garbage and to clear
away them without having any difference of caste, creed, race, and
language ….etc. When we do so , the surroundings will be clean without
garbage.
While returning home , Malan thinks about the teacher’s advice and
realized his mistakes. He reached home and started cleaning his house
with a broom stick.
Think!
Who clean your home regularly?
Say true or False:
Boys should not clean their house. Cleaning is the duty of girls only.
Selection of place for vermiculture.
Vermitech-Implementation at school
Dig the pit.
Students activitiesFill the pit with agro waste (Noonmeal),cow dung, and fallen leaves from trees.
After two weeks the partialy compost waste bed is ready for Vermicompost.
Spread sack to prevent the earth worm escape from the pit.
Earth worm was applied on the bedding.
The earthworms go down and the compost is collected from the top.
Separate the baby worms and worm cocoons from it by sieving method. Now the manure is ready to use.
After three weeks We can observe the Vermicomposed manure at the top of the pit. (The appearance of black granular crumbly powder on top of vermibeds indicate harvest stage of the compost. Watering is stopped for at least 5 days at this stage.
Make a heap of the vermicompost.The earth worms go down and the compost is collected from the top.Separate the baby worms and worm cocoons from it by sieving method.Now the manure is ready to use.
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1Selection of place for vermiculture at school.
2Dig the pit to put the discards from the school.
3Spread used plastic sack to prevent the earth worm escape from the pit
4Fill the pit with agrowaste(Noon meal, Fallen leaves, vegetable peel)and cowdung.
5After two weeks the partially composed bed is ready for vermi compost
6Now earth worm is applied in to the bed.
Vermitech-Implementation at school
Students activities
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After three weeks we can observe the vermicompost manure at the top of the pit.Watering is stopped for at least 5 days at this stage. The
appearance of black granular crumbly powder on top of vermibeds indicate harvest stage of the compost.
Make a heap of the vermicompost.The earth worms go down and the compost is collected from the top.
Vermitech-School activities…..
Dear students you can prepare this vermicompost at your home by hanging basket in a corner at your home.
Do you want to prepare vermicompost at your home? Here is an idea……
Separate the baby worms and worm cocoons from it by sieving method. Now the manure is ready to use.
Find!
1.How many varieties of earth worms are used for vermiculture?
2.How can you give awareness on vermicompost to your friends neighbours?
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We are living in a false economy where the price of goods and services does not include the cost of waste and pollution.Manufacturer produce goods and think about the profit only.
The discard materials usually requires significantly less energy , water and other resources to recycle materials than to produce new materials.In developed countries, the most common consumer items such as pet bottles paper , card board, newspaper etc..are recycled into new useful materials.( products)Such a way their productive capacity is improved. Discard materials such as leaves, twigs,gross clippings and rotten vegetables are decomposed and it is used as manure.Having a discard recycling management plan would surely help in ensuring the communities economic condition into a better way.The discard things canbe collected from the communities and it can be sold in the market . Such a way people can earn money,
Activity: Make a vermicomposed plant in our school. Try to convert the degradable wastes such as falling leaves and noon meal waste into manure. Sold the vermicomposed manure and earn money.
Economics:
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Attitude
Throw away: (What should we do?)
It is important that we must avoid throwing the
waste in public places.
We must create an awareness among the
people that throwing things in such places is
completely spoiling the healthy condition of the
human being..
Create awareness on diseases spread due
tothrowing garbages in public places.
Do you know?------- Tons/kgs garbages are collected per day from our town/District/home
centres, parks, railway station, at street, road, recreation
The waste thrown into a dustbin go to a larger
bin placed in the street and from there it is goes
to villages also places where marginalized or less
privileged people live.
In a way , it is transferring of one’s problem to
somebody or some other region without
managing it. This kind of attitude causes the
pollution and garbages.
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Use and throwThings, which we have used one and thrown away arecalled use and throw things.In the olden ages this use and throw policy wasPictures of ball point pens, ink pens, paper cups, silver cups,practised by the wealthy communities only. But now a days all people use the policy. Because of the technological improvement, common people want to consume single usage product. Effects:As these products are much consumed by thepeople, the environment is much polluted by thesethings. Remedies:People can use ink pens instead ball point or use and throw pens.People may use silver cups instead of paper cups.People should be aware of the effects of use and throwthings