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“Turn domestic waste into craft”

TIRUCHI: “Avoid domestic waste by turning them into craft” was the message of 24 posters and 29 science models that were on display at an inter-school competition on ‘Environmental Awareness’ held here on Saturday.

Organised by a five-member team from the Department of Social Work of Bishop Heber College, the competition aimed at pooling in school students with scientific bent of mind to come up with eco-friendly substitutes for hazardous materials.

“This is also to sensitise the students on the need for avoiding non-degradable substances,” said the Department Head of Social Work A. Relton.

Substituting clay bricks with fly ash, manufactured from the by-products of industrial waste, could prevent the toxic gases from mixing with atmosphere, said Standard XI students – S. Vidyashiny and C. Abirami from Savitri Vidyasala Hindu Girls Higher Secondary School, who displayed a model on preparing the fly ash by processing the industrial effluents.

From camouflaging eggshells as snow dolls to slicing the X-rays to complement with lampshades, most of the models displayed by the eleven participating schools had chosen ‘wealth from waste’ as the theme.

Two Standard IX students from St. James Matriculation Higher Secondary School came up with a picturesque model of environmental hazards of industrial pollution. They put forth the suggestions for segregating domestic waste as degradable and non-degradable to recycle the latter. The duo also pencilled a pie chart to explain the percentages of harmful wastes emitted from different sources.

Land pollution was the focus of the team from Seva Sangam Girls Higher Secondary School, and the team proposition was to manufacture eco-friendly detergents to avoid the pollution of the water table.

Monicka from St. Joseph’s Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School came first in poster competition, followed by Andiappan from Campion Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School and Manikandan from St. Joseph’s Higher Secondary School.

The models were awarded prizes in three categories – air pollution, soil pollution and wealth from waste.

Models of St. Joseph’s Higher Secondary School topped in ‘air pollution,’ Savitri Vidyasala Hindu Girls HSS in ‘soil pollution’ and Seva Sangam Girls Higher Secondary School in ‘wealth from waste.’

The Principal of the host college Marcus Diepan Boominathan inaugurated the exhibition and the Forest Range Officer P. Sornappan, distributed prizes to the winners.

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