Taking Charge of Waste begins on National Cleanliness Day as children and teachers clean a neighbourhood park and examine how everyday packaging, fruit peels, old clothes and plastics create waste. Through the 3Rs—Reduce, Reuse and Recycle—and inspiring examples like Mawlynnong in Meghalaya and Indore in Madhya Pradesh, students learn to segregate wet waste into green bins and dry recyclable waste into blue bins.
What Class 3 EVS Chapter 12 Covers
How Waste Is Created: Identifying daily household and school waste such as peels, wrappers, bottles, tins and old paper
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (3Rs): Carrying cloth bags and steel bottles, reusing jars and old clothes, and recycling paper, metal and plastic
A Place of Pride: How villagers in Mawlynnong (Meghalaya) and citizens in Indore keep their surroundings spotless
Waste Segregation: Separating rotting organic waste (green dustbin for composting) from dry recyclable waste (blue dustbin)
Exercises in Chapter 12
- In-Text Activities (Pages 150–161): Audit the waste created at home in a day, craft useful items from old boxes or cloth and sort waste into green and blue bins.
- Let us reflect (Pages 162–163): Plan a zero-waste birthday party and explain how reducing, reusing and segregating waste keeps our environment healthy.
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- Previous: Chapter 11: Making Things
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FAQ
What goes into the green dustbin and the blue dustbin?
The green dustbin is for wet, biodegradable waste like vegetable peels, fruit scraps and leftover food (which turns into compost), while the blue dustbin is for dry, recyclable waste like paper, plastic, glass and metal.
How can you celebrate a zero-waste birthday party?
Use steel plates and glasses instead of disposable plastic, decorate with fresh flowers or cloth torans instead of plastic balloons, and avoid food waste.