GARBAGE DISPOSABLE PROBLEM IN GOA

GROUP 5

Some Facts & Figures• Panjim and Margao's waste together estimated to be

90-100 Metric Tonnes per day• Goa’s homes produce 300 tonnes of garbage daily.• Only five towns — Panaji, Bicholim, Mormugao,

Canacona and Margao — have dumping grounds right now and these, too, are more than 75 per cent full. 

• are operating without safety precautions.• The other towns and villages do not even have a

dumping ground; waste is dumped wherever possible, often in rivers and the backwaters, resulting in these water bodies choking and causing floods during the monsoon.

• The bio-medical waste that Goa’s healthcare centres (19 government primary health centres and 123 private nursing homes and hospitals) produce top the list of environmental concerns.

Contd…• not one of Goa’s towns has the wherewithal

to segregate biomedical waste from other waste.

Consequences

• Bio-medical waste, if not treated properly, can lead to disease outbreaks.

• Toxic waste can contaminate the water table during monsoon

• Garbage is often burnt and the fumes can cause rashes and respiratory problems.

• The toxic waste seeping into the groundwater can contaminate wells.

WHO IS RESPONCIBLE???

• local authorities• Builders• Industrialists• Government• WE

WHY THE PROBLEM IS NOT BEING SOLVED?

• apathy by the concerned authorities and stakeholders• failure of collective society such as you and me• lack of awareness• Instable governments• red tape• misguided decisions• Govt have been ineffective in choosing right

technology for managing of waste• lack of waste management infrastructure

What Can I do?

• Recycle. In our place, we sell all our paper trash so that it will be recycled. And we sell also our plastics for recycling

• Compost kitchen wastes. Then you can use the soil for planting. Dont burn it, it may add up carbon dioide emission.

• Do not throw away your dead batteries, metals, bulbs because there may be some hazardous chemical that are dangerous to our health. Hand it to some facilites which can recycle them.

• Propagate the news

Help save our environment. So that we can live a healthy and happy

life in the future.

What can We done?

• We have to decide to step in when the authorities have stepped out. We should not sit down and watch the destruction of our beautiful Goa. Instead we have to decide to act tough and fight every pollutant that poses a threat to us. The fact that our Government is doing absolutely nothing has sunk deep into us and so we have to decide to take things into our hands.

So how can we able to manage and do our part as a citizen of our country to lessen our garbage problem?

For Example….

• Organise a beach clean up