Social Welfare and Environment

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Presented by:-

R.VIDYABATHY,

M.Sc., B.Ed., M.Phil.,

PG Asst. IN CHEMISTRY

G.B.H.S SCHOOL,

VEPPANAPALLI,

KRISHNAGIRI Dt.

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Man has been endowed with reason with the power to create, so that he can add to what has been given. But up to now he hasn’t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up,wildlifes become extinct,the climates ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier everyday. -Anton Chekhov (Uncle Vanya 1897)

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Methods of Conservation of Resources

Material substitution

Holding materials : Plastic cups = Paper cups

Plastic plates = Palm plates

Energy usage : Atomic energy = Solar energy

so that water and Uranium consumption is

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Product life extension

Durability of a product is extended for long years

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Recycling

Waste paper is collected for new paper production so

that timber resources can be preserved

Sea water can be desalinated to drinking water

Waste reduction

Organic waste can be used as a natural fertilizers

Sago and Starch industrial waste known as “THIPPI”

is now being used in cattle feed industries

“BAGASSE”, a sugar mill waste is now used as a raw

material in paper mill

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Recent environmental issues in Tamil Nadu

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From the time the public become aware of Kaveri

Delta Coal Bed Methane Extraction project, fervently

opposed by the farmers of Kaveri delta region as well

as agricultural and environmental experts at Tanjore.

World's Wettest Area - Cherrapunji - Dries Up

The area once recorded more than 1,042 inches

(2,540 cm) of rain in just one year - a global

record

Tourists come here to see rain, not sun and if there

are no rains, no clouds, why should the tourists come?

The cement plant polluted the environment and added

to the population pressure in the area. And if there are