Interviews conducted by Hardik

Interviewer: Hardik Lalla

Interviewee: Anushka Patil
Q. What is your understanding of waste management?
A. Like the term literally says managing the waste correctly that
is basically disposing the waste off properly. Since waste is
inevitable, like there is no way you can stop producing waste,
you can try to reduce the waste produced and dispose it off
properly.
Q. What are your ideas on managing the waste produced in
our school?
A. First of all you have to inform the students, unless they know
about the amount of waste produced, they won’t take care of it
properly… so I think awareness is a first. Drives, workshops or
at least some kind of assemblies to let the students know.
Secondly, I think every single student should take the
responsibility themselves to reduce waste for example to use
both sides of paper, to use the pencil till it is not possible to
use, etc.
Q. What waste is produced at your home and how do you
take care of it?
A. Kind of waste produced at our home would be domestic
waste like of course food, fruit peels and some stationery stuff.
How we take care of it is by reducing the waste as much as
possible and segregate it into dry and wet waste and whatever
is recyclable is used in used in artistic purposes because I myself
am an enthusiast.
Interviewer: Hardik Lalla
Interviewee: Aadi Kumar
Q. What is your understanding of waste management?
A. Just as the name says waste management is the proper
handling of all the waste that is collected and discarding of it in
such a way so that we make the environment beneficial for us.
Q. What are your ideas on managing the waste produced in
our school?
A. Making children aware of their duties, responsibilities is a
first for me. Sharing innovative ideas or even contests of them
to promote such ideas will prove quite helpful for them
according to me.
Q. What waste is produced at your home and how do you
take care of it?
A. Waste produced at my home is basically the kitchen waste
such as vegetable peels and wrappers of food products and it is
all segregated at my home itself and then sent to the landfills
by the municipal corporation workers that come to collect it.
Interviewer: Hardik Lalla
Interviewee: Akhiladnya Inamdar
Q. What is your understanding of waste management?
A. My understanding of waste management is efficient and
cheap processing of unnecessary materials so as to not affect
the nature and also to gain something of value.
Q. What are your ideas on managing the waste produced in
our school?
A. The waste generated in our school should be recycled and
should be used for art and SUPW activities which can then be
sold and could be used to make cups plates or any other such
items that is for greater use.
Q. What waste is produced at your home and how do you
take care of it?
A. The waste produced at my home is leftover food, plastic, etc.
For food we give it to local stray animals or use it has natural
manure for plants. Plastic is either reused if possible or recycled
when not. Also, we strive to reduce waste where feasible and
to the maximum extent possible.
BONUS QUESTION
Q. Have you taken part in any waste awareness programs?
A. No, not really other than those introduced to us by School.
 Interviews conducted by Rishi

Interviewer : Rishi Yadav

Interviewee : Mahika Ghosh

Q. What is your understanding of waste management

?
A. According to me, waste management consists of
collection of waste, it’s separation and disposal, preferably
in an eco-friendly manner, to generate benefit for mankind

Q. What are your ideas on managing the waste

produced in school ?
A. Separate bins can be located for different kinds of
waste like food waste and paper waste. The food waste
from the canteens can be used as an addition to compost.

Q. What waste is produced at your home and how do

you take care of it ?
A. The waste produced at my home consists mainly of
food waste, dry waste and dry leaves and twigs collected
from the garden. We dispose of the food waste and dry
waste separately.
We also try to use cloth bags and eco-friendly containers
to avoid plastic. Thus eventually reducing waste.
Interviewer : Rishi Yadav
Interviewee : Nishad Patil

Q. What is your understanding of waste management

A. As far as my understanding, waste management
involves segregation, disposal and treatment of waste in
ways which are not only safe for the environment but also
might be useful for some of us like reusing certain waste
produced or maybe making something out of the waste
like organic manure. It also involves handling waste in
such a way that it is not directly disposed of into natural
regions like forests or lakes or rivers or any other water
bodies.

Q. What is your idea of managing the waste produced

in our school and can you give some examples of
what the waste contains ?
A. The waste generated in our school could be of 3 types -
organic waste, which is further divided into wet waste and
dry waste; inorganic waste, which mostly contains plastic
and rubber and which can be reused and if the waste is
not reusable, it is directly disposed of. The wet waste
could be sold to companies or the school can run an
initiative to make a certain organic manure for various
organic crops which might serve as a better alternative to
the chemical fertilisers that harm the natural fertility of soil.
The dry waste should be recycled or should be reused to
make decorative artwork. The inorganic reusable waste
should be sent to recycle centres or we could also use
them directly like the plastic bottles can be reused and the
waste that is not of any use should be disposed off
because wastes like plastics tend to harm the environment
but this should only be done once they are treated
properly.

Q. What is the waste produced at your home and how

do you take care of it ?
A. Generally the wet waste like the peels of fruits and
vegetables and the remains of animals is usually disposed
of. Some of it may be used for manure but not all as it
might be harmful and keeping them at home is not a good
option as it could invite various vectors like mosquitoes
and house-flys so it is disposed of into the green recycling
bins. Then the waste like papers and charts are kept aside
for craft work or for use as rough sheets. The plastic
bottles are kept for reusing. The other reusable or
recyclable waste is sold to scrap-dealers.
The waste that is not recyclable nor can be disposed of
directly is thrown in the blue dustbin.

// Could you give an example of such wastes ?

Plastic sheets used for wrapping or maybe the sanitizer

bottles or the pouches for soaps or the packets used for
wrapping food cannot be used directly. There is also
electronic waste like wires or broken devices. The
batteries of such are removed and they are destroyed.
Interviewer : Rishi Yadav
Interviewee : Shreyas Prabhu

Q. What is your understanding of waste management

?
A. Waste management is basically managing the waste
like the collection of waste; segregation of waste -
removing recyclable part and recycling properly and the
tarsh part that cannot be recycled and has to be thrown
away; then ensuring the proper disposal of waste in a safe
way so that it doesn’t affect the environment and has no
harmful effects; and ensuring that all this is done in an
efficient way without causing any pollution of any kind.

Q. What is your idea of managing the waste produced

in school and what does it usually contain ?
A. The waste produced usually contains stationary -
papers and finished refills of pens; and sometimes food
too and plastic bottles. I think plastic and paper are the
most common ones. The best way, according to me, of
waste management is waste segregation. Which includes
segregating wet waste and dry waste. This makes the
waste easier to manage when we go forward in the
process. Then ensuring that there is a separate bin for
recyclable waste like plastic bottles and paper which inturn
helps to reduce the waste. The other way is to minimise
the waste that is produced. The more we make efforts to
reduce the waste, the easier it will be to manage the
waste. And to ensure that it is disposed of at proper
garbage units where it is properly handled so that it does
not cause any pollution.
Q. What waste is produced at your home and how do
you take care of it’s disposal and overall management
?
A. At home, it is usually the extra food, which could be
used as a part of later meals, but if it is too much the
excess is thrown off. The stationary waste is also
produced at home which includes waste paper and empty
refills of pens. Then we have cardboard waste which is
produced due to the wrappings of packages that arrive.
That waste is used by my sister for art and craft but the
plastic part is thrown off.
At home, we have two bins for dry waste - for stationary
and paper, etc. and the other is wet waste for kitchen
waste and waste of any other kind. But the problem is that
our society does not have a proper waste management
policy so these two wastes get combined in the end. It
doesn’t have a system for segregating the recyclable
waste either.