SEWA PROJECT ON

BEING SAFE AND RESPONSIBLE

Topic: Being Safe and Responsible

Name: Mast LOHITH KUMARHU.S
RAGHAV KRISHNA

XII- D– A
Class: XI
Register Number: 12126

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 XII - A

2023- 2024

SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL EXAMINATION

ST. JOHN’S PUBLIC SCHOOL, CHENNAI - 600073

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my teacher

Mrs. Sridevi Sathyaraja for her guidance, and support throughout

the duration of the project. We completed the project successfully by her

motivation and herextended support for us.

As well as I would like to thank our Correspondent Dr.R. Kishore

Kumar, our Principal Mrs. Shanthi Samuel who gave me the golden
opportunity to do this project, which also helped me in doing a lot of
Research and Icame to know about so many new things when I was
doing the project.

Finally, I would also like to thank my parents and friends who helped me
a lot in finalizing this project within the limited time frame.

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 INDEX

[Link] CONTENTS PAGE NO

1 BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

3 INTRODUCTION

4 MANAGING WASTES

5 TYPES OF WASTES

6 LANDFILLS IN SCHOOLS

7 BENEFITS

10 APPROACHES AND BEST

PRACTICES

11 SWACHH VIDALAYA
GALLERY
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INTRODUCTION

Rubbish, garbage, litter, junk, scrap, trash. Waste is

generated in various forms. Managing it is one of
the essential services that municipal authorities are
duty-bound to provide. Putting waste into a vehicle
and unloading it at a dump seems to be a simple
enough affair. Then why do so many cities and
towns across the globe suffer from rotting refuse
piled up in streets and drains–breeding flies and
rats, and degrading urban environments?
Separating, reducing, reusing, recycling and
composting are good options for managing school
waste. Boards need to find ways to get rid of school
waste with the least negative effects on the
environment. Incinerating and building waste pits on
the school grounds can only be done by schools with
no other options.
 MANAGING WASTES :
Separate waste
Separating waste is the first step in managing your school’s rubbish.

Set up bins for the different kinds of waste, and make sure the right bins are
used. You should have clearly labelled bins for glass, paper, plastic, cans and
for organic waste.

Reduce waste
Avoid sending waste to a landfill. Landfills cause environmental problems,
such as unpleasant smells and contaminants and toxins leeching into water
and the air.

Educate staff and students about using other ways of disposing of waste,
such as recycling, reusing and composting.

Reuse waste
Think about reusing waste around the school and the school community,
including:

Taking lost property to your local opportunity shop

Using plastic bags as bin liners or as packaging, instead of bubble wrap

Having students make recycled paper and use shredded paper as bedding for
pets.
Recycle waste
Contact your local council to find out what can be
recycled in your area. Generally you can recycle:

 Glass
 Paper and cardboard
 Cans
 Plastic.

Make sure recycle bins are used correctly and that the items are clean when
they go in the bin.

For recycling to work, educating students and staff is essential. Some local
councils help schools to set up recycling programmes and educate their staff
and students.
 TYPES OF WASTES

Compost organic waste

Separate organic waste like food scraps, plants, paper and lawn clippings
from other rubbish.

Use organic waste for composting and teach students about how it works.
You can use the compost on the school gardens, saving on the cost of
fertiliser and other chemicals. You could set up worm farms, which can be
used to teach parts of the curriculum.

Search online for tips about composting. If composting isn't possible:

Ask students and teachers to take organic waste home

Find out if local farmers want organic waste

Keep hens at school and feed them the waste

Have the organic waste composted at the local landfill — it’s generally
cheaper to drop organic waste at a landfill than other rubbish.

Burning waste
Very few schools still use incinerators. They're usually only used at remote
schools without easy access to other waste disposal facilities. Incinerators
put contaminants into the air and can be a health hazard.

If you use an incinerator to burn waste, you need resource consent as

required under the Resource Management Regulations 2004.

Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Air Quality)

Regulations 2004(external link).

Using an incinerator
If you still have an incinerator and the resource consent to use it:
Burn only appropriate materials, for example, don’t burn plastic (the rules for
what’s appropriate are different between areas)

Make sure the incinerator is working efficiently

Make sure the incinerator is maintained and regularly cleaned.

Visit the Ministry of Environment website for more information about the
national standards for air quality.

About the National Environmental Standards for Air Quality(external link)

Landfills, offal holes or waste pits at school

 Burying waste on school grounds will almost certainly require resource
consent. If you’re thinking of burying rubbish, contact your local
council first.
 Use a landfill or waste pit only as a last resort because they can:
 Contaminate groundwater
 Attract pests and be a health hazard
 Create unpleasant smells and dust
 Take up space and must be continuously maintained
 Be very expensive to build and maintain.
Benefits of this :
A CLEANER SCHOOL

With less waste building up onsite and a more effective waste disposal system, your
school will become a much cleaner place. Not only is this beneficial to the health of staff
and students, but it keeps you well above legal standards and presents your school in a
better light to any visitors or prospective parents!

FEWER HAZARDS

Poorly maintained waste facilities and bins can cause a hazard for children, as rubbish
that overflows or is left lying on the ground could cause somebody to slip or trip. With
regularly managed and maintained waste disposal facilities, your school will be free of
these potential risks.

MORE RECYCLING & IMPROVED SUSTAINABILITY

Waste management providers can help you to separate waste properly, recycle it after
collection, and streamline your overall system to lower waste production. This improves
your sustainability as less of your waste ends up in landfill, and helps your school to
look after our planet.

PROMOTES RESPONSIBLE WASTE HABITS IN CHILDREN

As we mentioned before, schools play a vital role in teaching children how to deal with
waste properly. By having an effective waste management strategy, you’ll show them
how to reduce their waste production, how to keep areas clean, and how to recycle –
building a more sustainable generation!
Approaches and Best Practices
A waste audit is an assessment of an organization’s waste
management system. It analyzes the movement of waste from
generation to disposal. Common approaches for conducting waste
audits are records examination, facility walk-throughs, and waste
sorting.
First approach – involves looking at waste hauling and disposal records as
well as contracts with recycling facilities.

Second approach – requires a team of internal auditors to identify waste-

generating activities through observation and interviews with employees.

Third approach – is the physical collection, sorting, and weighing of a sample

of the organization’s waste. This sample can be a day’s worth of waste or a
collection of waste from each department.

Best practices for conducting a waste audit are to refrain from releasing the
audit date to the entire organization, prepare personal protective equipment
and a venue for sorting beforehand, and commit to acting on the waste audit
result. This can be achieved by creating corrective action plans for each
possible result.

For example, if the organization scored low on a certain area, then the
following steps should be done. For this to work, it is essential for the
organization to set the criteria before conducting the waste audit. Another
tip is to use digital waste audit checklists for easy documentation and a
more comprehensive data analysis.
 Swachh Vidyalaya

Swachh Bharat: Swachh Vidyalaya is the national campaign

driving ‘Clean India: Clean Schools’. A key feature of the
campaign is to ensure that every school in India has a set of
functioning and well maintained water, sanitation and hygiene
facilities. Water, sanitation and hygiene in schools refers to a
combination of technical and human development components
that are necessary to produce a healthy school environment and
to develop or support appropriate health and hygiene behaviours.
The technical components include drinking water,
handwashing,toilet and soap facilities in the school compound for
use by children and teachers. The human development
components are the activities that promote conditions within the
school and the practices of children that help to prevent water,
hygiene and sanitation related diseases.
 Swachh Vidyalaya
Puraskar (SVP) 2021 -2022
The Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar has been
instituted by the Ministry of Education,
Government of India to recognize, inspire and
celebrate excellence in sanitation and hygiene
practice in schools. The purpose of the SVP is
to honor schools that have undertaken
significant steps towards fulfilling the mandate
of the Swachh Vidyalaya Campaign. SVP is
based on IT enabled assessment of WASH
infrastructure, hygienic practices and COVID-19
appropriate behaviour.
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