Application of household waste and its sustainable use in home gardens
Pampi Ghosh
Department of Botany, Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Kapgari Jhargram-721505 (India) Correspondence: pampikapgari@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Every day we face a challenge to cope up the direct dirt and pollution of our surroundings. It is very ugly and cause serious problems in every sphere of ecosystem processes. A large number of waste materials are released from every house in our society. The wastes may be bio-degradable or non-biodegradable wastes and sometimes mixed type. After the use of packaged food items and use of some packaged food products including spices, the non-degradable items are disposed to the nearby places or to the vat. Stray dogs, cats, buffalos, cows and goats pickup these materials and consume these. Unwanted entries of such non-biodegradable items cause serious effect on such quadrupeds. Non-biodegradable wastes are sometimes collected by local people for re-sale and re-use purpose though all are seriously contaminated there in a large vat of municipal system. Biodegradable wastes are collected by the municipality from every house in everyday and dump the garbage in to the waste deposit sites. Without proper management the unwanted entry of garbage cause hap of garbage and disseminate pollutants nearby lands, rivers, canals and human habitats nearby. These wastes make various types of pollution and make the surroundings polluted. We can make people aware about use of their own household wastes generated by them every day. Reduce, reuse, recycle are the processes to minimize the waste output. In this communication, case study of some household wastes was done. Study revealed that the household wastes may be applied to home gardens and kitchen gardens in a very concise manner to cultivate crops in a fruitful way for better management of their wastes.