MPSC State Service 2019 · CSAT · Question 4 of 72

Passage: Earn from Waste Children from St. Ursula and St. Andrews schools from Nigdi and Chinchwad ensured that 539 kg plastic did not land into the waste bins and rivers. Susan Raj, a social activist, had earlier created awareness by sharing the importance of segregation and making money from recycling waste. She said, “Let us hope that all the schools start this small gesture, then the garbage bins will not have any plastic waste. Every bit of the material that is not useful to us now, is a raw material, which should be recycled. ” The Lion՚s International, PCMC area represented by president Ln. Vivek Naniwadekar and Treasurer Ln. Prakash Kolpyakwar spoke to children about three important things to be added to their basket of values - respect for parents, segregating garbage and helping at least one person to see the world through their eyes. Susan Raj from The Academic Advisors (TAA) explained in a simple way how to identify wet and dry garbage, “All things made by God in the nature goes in wet garbage and all things made by humans goes into dry garbage. When our waste is mixed, it loses its value and when it is kept separately, it earns money for us. ” Shyamala Desai of NSCC (National Society for Clean Cities) shared few incidents of segregating waste and its impact in reducing pollution. Lalit Rohit of Clean Garbage Management. Pvt. Ltd. collected all the plastic and maintained the record of the collection. St. Andrews school children earned ₹ 3548 while St. Ursula earned ₹ 784. Rosie Sequeira, Principal of St. Andrews informed that their SMS information system helped them a great deal to collect plastics as all the parents are in contact with the school authorities through SMS number. Sister Sandhya, Principal of St. Ursula said that they would like to develop composting pit to educate children on how to manage wet garbage, Shyamala Desai assured that she will help both the schools to develop their composting pits. Ln. Vivek assured that Lion՚s volunteers will help schools in co-ordinating this plastic collection drive. They will cover at least 10 schools in PCMC area. A recycler from Sonia Gandhi Udyog, Amir Shaikh, explained to the children that he was very glad to see such large amount of clean plastic collection and he would save lots of water and directly shred it. This shredded material is then moulded into various products like pipes which are used in the buildings and in farms. Lalit Rohit also informed that this one act of collecting 539 kg. of plastic has saved much resources. Reuse saves money and recycling earns money. He said, ″ ₹ 20,000 were added to the net national resources″. Our PCM and PCMC must look into the possibility of getting this model into all school and grant them awards. Who explained the simple way how to identify wet and dry garbage?

Reading Comprehension

1. ALalit Rohit
2. BSusan RajCorrect
3. CShyamala Desai
4. DVivek Naniwadekar