Solid Waste and Its Management

Pollution from animal excreta and organic waste from kitchen can be most profitably minimized by

Which of the followinf is/are the effects of solid waste pollution.

Which of the following is a method to dump municipal solid waste?

Polyblend is:

In which city, polyblend was used for the first time?

Solid wastes from homes, offices, stores, hospitals and hotels are commonly called as 

Incinerator is significant for the transfer of ______

Most of the e-wastes of created nations are imported by _____

Identify the options that are correct with respect to the remedy of plastic waste. Correct statements are:

A. Polyblend is a fine mixture of recycled modified plastic.

B. It is a zero-waste procedure.

C. It was due to the collaboration of town people of Arcata and Biologists of Humboldt State University.

D. A blend of polyblend and bitumen enhances bitumen’s water-repellent properties and helps to increase the road life.

Identify following statements and choose the correct option.

A. Sanitary landfills were adopted as substitute for open burning dump.

B. All wastes that we generate can be categorized into three types: Biodegradable, recyclable and non-biodegradable.

Which of the following materials takes the longest time for biodegradation?
 

Non-biodegradable pollutants are created by:

Which statements are correct from the following?
(i) Ahmed Khan, a plastic sack manufacturer of Bangalore, in 1998, developed polyblend, a fine powder of recycled modified plastic.
(ii) In collaboration with RV College of Engineering and Bangalore City Corporation, he proved that the mixture of polyblend and bitumen was better for road carpeting as it had better water repellent property.
(iii) By 2002, more than 40 km roads of Bangalore were laid with the help of Khan's mixture.
(iv) Rag pickers who used to get $\mathrm{₹}\mathrm{ }0.40$ per kg of plastic waste started getting $\mathrm{₹}\mathrm{ }6.00$ from Ahmed Khan.
(v) Innovation like polyblend might help the modern society from being smothered with plastic waste.

What is polyblend?

Read the following statements on the recycling of e-waste and select the correct option.

A. Developed countries have specifically built facilities for their disposal.

B. Recycling is not a solution for the treatment of e-waste.

Most of the e-waste of developed countries are imported by:

Read the following statements and select the correct option.

A. Sanitary landfills were adopted as a substitute for the open burning of dumps.

B. All wastes that we generate can be categorised into three types: biodegradable, recyclable and non–biodegradable.

Match the following columns.