Go Green

We sensitized primary class students by conducting a special assembly for them on topic 'Go Green'. These pictures have been clicked in their classrooms.

CORALS EATING MICROPLASTICS!!

MICROPLASTIC A THREAT TO GREAT BARRIER REEF...

Researchers in Australia have found that corals commonly found on the Great Barrier Reef will eat micro-plastic pollution. 

Microplastics are tiny fragments of plastic in the environment and are a widespread contaminant in marine ecosystems, particularly in inshore coral reefs.

Despite the proliferation of microplastics, their impact on marine ecosystems is poorly understood.

Marine plastic pollution is a global problem and microplastics can have negative effects on the health of marine organisms. The aim was  to determine whether corals from inshore coral reefs consume microplastics, and whether there is potential for plastic pollution to affect coral reefs.

Corals are non-selective feeders and the results show that they can consume microplastics when the plastics are present in seawater. If microplastic pollution increases on the Great Barrier Reef, corals could be negatively affected as their tiny stomach-cavities become full of indigestible plastic.

As part of the study the researchers put corals collected from the Great Barrier Reef into plastic contaminated water. After two nights they found that the corals had eaten plastic particles.

Corals get energy from photosynthesis by symbiotic algae living within their tissues, but they also feed on a variety of other food including zooplankton, sediment and other microscopic organisms that live in seawater

The plastic was found deep inside the coral polyp wrapped in digestive tissue, raising concerns that it might impede the corals ability to digest its normal food.

Source-" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150224104158.htm '

CHECK YOUR HABITS

CHECK YOUR HABITS FOR BETTER ECOLOGY

Keeping a check on your daily consumption habits may help in conserving the city"s dwindling ecology. If proper care is not taken gurgaon can turn into a stinking place with trash lying everywhere. People store a huge chunk of residue without thinking how much nuisance value they add to the ecology. This habit among citizens is increasing hampering the ecological balance.

We need to me more concerened more about our daily consumption habits.

Experts say that consuming fresh products instead of packed once may help in improving the environment. People should realise that they need to preserve the ecology.
                                                                                                                                                                 

SURVEY

SURVEY

Its an initiative taken by class IX and X students of DAV Public School, Sector - 14 Gurgaon to avoid the use of polythene bags and keep the surroundings clean.

FOR SURVEY FORM,

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Please fill this survey so that it can help us to reduce polythene use and waste. As we all know that polythene is very harmful for our environment ans its use should be minimised as soon as possible.

This survey will only take five minutes to be filled. So spare some time to fill it and contribute towards environment.

THANK YOU

Our Project

Ill effects of plastic can be stop when we all take initiative. And to stop it one person can’t do everything, everyone needs to contribute for it. Plastic is acting as degrading material for our environment. This project aims at making people aware about the effects of the plastic and make them realize that it is our need to stop plastic or else it would be plastic who will stop us. Plastics use and burning of plastic emits various harmful gasses which are bad for human beings and plants. We have chosen blog as a medium for spreading awareness among people so that they take initiative and start using two bin system. By two bin system it would be easy to separate the waste. We have started two bin system in our classrooms and at our home. At my home I have two dustbins, one for wet waste in the kitchen and the other for dry waste so that it is easy for our garbage vendor to separate them out. I have also hanged up a polybag in my room so that I can collect all recyclable waste (plastic & paper) so that it can be given for recycling.  Many of my friends and neighbors have joined me. When our garbage vendor comes, I see my neighbors using two bin system so that it is easy for him to separate. We researched on the effects of the plastics and put the result in the front of the people in an easier way by using the mean of internet which made it easier for the people to access and analyze the results.  

E-Waste: The Biggest Environmental Crisis

Disposal of harmless looking electronic refuse such as TVs and computers, which contain toxic parts, is a huge problem

The batteries of your TV remote control are dead. Mobile phone chargers and CDs lie unused around the house, and the CFL is defunct. Not sure what to do, you throw these toxic items into the dustbin.

Workers at one of the many scrap shops at Mayapuri in west Delhi or Seelampur in the east dismantle computers, rip apart keyboards -- all bought from your local scrap dealer. Acid is used to clean toxic metal components and blowlamps remove chips from circuit boards.

The two techniques of disposing of and recycling defunct electronic and electrical waste — called e-waste — are different. But both poison the air, land and water.

Delhi gets 86 percent of the e-waste generated in the developed world and is fast turning into the world’s e-waste dumping yard, a recent study said. From the current 67,000 metric tonnes (MT) per annum, Delhi’s e-waste generation is likely to go up to 100,000 MT by 2017.

The United States accounts for the bulk of the e-waste imports into the country, followed by China and the European Union. Over 200,000 workers are engaged in the various organised and unorganised recycling units in Delhi.

Th e Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) website admits there are only 17 collection centres and only four authorised recyclers in the city. But it also cautions that disposal through unauthorised agencies will attract a fine of up to ` 1 lakh or jail for a maximum of five years or both.

“In the absence of proper infrastructure, legislation and framework, over 95% of e-waste is handled by the informal sector, and less than 5% reaches a recycler for safe disposal,” says Nitin Gupta of Attero, an e-waste collection and recycling firm authorised by the central pollution watchdog.
The government thinks framing of rules is enough to deal with the growing hazard. “In 2012, the Centre issued electronic waste rules that make it mandatory for electronic goods producers to take back e-waste. We have tied up with some recyclers who will pick up the waste regularly and dispose it of safely,” said a DPCC official.

With a deluge of new gadgets and latest technologies being launched every day, the discard rate of electronic devices has gone up drastically. But the disposal happens unscientifically and in an extremely hazardous way. As per a survey, as many as 32% of households in Delhi are not aware of proper ways to dispose of e-waste.

“While getting rid of their old computers, business houses look for good monetary return, discouraging recyclers to buy e-waste from them. People must follow the extended producer responsibility rules,” says Bharati Chaturvedi of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group.
Her worries seem genuine. A study by Delhi-based Toxics Link this year revealerevealed that many reputed electronictronic companies are violating laws aand putting lives and environmeronment in danger by not buying back discarded items, resulting in haphaphazard disposal. “These do not hahave information of collectiontion ccentres. Consumers remain grossgrossly unaware, and depend on unaunauthorised collectors to get rrid of their e-waste,” said Satish Sinha of Toxics Link.

Bibliography - Hindustan Times (09 January 2015)