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Health
Quarter 2 – Module 4:
Proper Waste Management

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Health – Grade 6
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 2 – Module 4: Proper Waste Management
First Edition, 2020

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Illustrators: Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado and Marvin P. Pagurayan
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Health
Quarter 2 – Module 4:
Proper Waste Management
Introductory Message
This Self-Learning Module (SLM) is prepared so that you, our dear learners,
can continue your studies and learn while at home. Activities, questions, directions,
exercises, and discussions are carefully stated for you to understand each lesson.

Each SLM is composed of different parts. Each part shall guide you step-by-
step as you discover and understand the lesson prepared for you.

Pre-tests are provided to measure your prior knowledge on lessons in each

SLM. This will tell you if you need to proceed on completing this module or if you
need to ask your facilitator or your teacher’s assistance for better understanding of
the lesson. At the end of each module, you need to answer the post-test to self-check
your learning. Answer keys are provided for each activity and test. We trust that you
will be honest in using these.

In addition to the material in the main text, Notes to the Teacher are also
provided to our facilitators and parents for strategies and reminders on how they can
best help you on your home-based learning.

Please use this module with care. Do not put unnecessary marks on any part
of this SLM. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises and tests. And
read the instructions carefully before performing each task.

If you have any questions in using this SLM or any difficulty in answering the
tasks in this module, do not hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator.

Thank you.
 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help
you practice proper waste management at home, in school, and in the community.

The module consists of only one lesson:

• Lesson 1 – Proper Waste Management

After going through this module, you are expected to practice proper waste
management at home, in school, and in the community (H6CMH-IIh-8).

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 What I Know

Directions: Write Agree if the statement tells proper waste management at home, in
school, and in the community and Disagree if it does not. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Burn plastic packaging to manage waste problems.

2. Convert kitchen wastes like fruit and vegetable peelings into compost.

3. Segregate biodegradable, non-biodegradable and recyclable waste at

home.

4. Pick garbage that is scattered in the community and dispose it in the

proper trash bin.

5. Dispose dead animals in the canal or other bodies of water.

6. Label the garbage cans properly in school for the children to practice
correct disposal of waste.

7. Recycle plastic products into art projects to minimize the wastes.

8. Support the Clean and Green Program of the community to maintain the
cleanliness of a place.

9. Throw empty bottles of chemical sprays in the vacant lots.

10. Sell scraps in the junkshop to reduce waste and earn money.

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 Lesson

1 Proper Waste Management

Wastes are found in our home, school and community. These wastes are
classified as biodegradable, non-biodegradable and hazardous. Wastes found in
school, in the community and at home should be managed properly to reduce them,
to prevent diseases or illnesses and to maintain a healthy environment.

What’s In

Waste management is the collection, transportation and disposal of garbage,

sewage and other waste products. Improper waste management causes problems
like clogged canals or drainage, flooding and various diseases that make our
environment unsafe. It is a big challenge to the school, home and the community on
how to involve people in proper segregation of wastes. If biodegradable, non-
biodegradable and hazardous wastes can be classified and managed properly, we can
easily identify which can be re-used or converted into new things to reduce wastes.
How beautiful it is seeing no waste or garbage scattering in our community.

X
Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

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 What’s New

A. Directions: These kids are given the task to properly manage the wastes found
at home, in school, and in the community. Help them manage the
problem by choosing the letter of the correct answer. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper.

1.

A. Convert into a fertilizer

through composting.

2.
B. Put the waste in a sealed
container and dispose
properly by burying in
specially built landfills or pit.

C. Reuse the packaging.

3.

Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

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B. Directions: Do you know that there are color-coded bins to sort our wastes
easily? Take a look at the pictures of the waste sorting bins. Do
you have these in your school?

BIODEGRADABLE RECYCLABLE NON-

BIODEGRADABLE

Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

Let’s read this poem. Answer the questions below. Write your answer on a separate
sheet of paper.

“Color-coded Bins”

by: Francilet R. Padios

Here is a green bin, biodegradable waste…you pitch in!

Next bin is yellow, recyclable waste…off you throw!

Third bin is blue, non-biodegradable waste…you put there too!

Throw it in…always put the waste in the proper bin!

1. According to the poem, where should you pitch in your biodegradable waste?
2. What color of the bin should a non-biodegradable waste be placed?

3. The wastes are recyclable. Where should you throw your waste?

4. What colors are used for coding the biodegradable, non-biodegradable and
recyclable wastes?

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 What is It

Directions: The pupils are sharing ideas about different types of wastes found in
school, home and community and how to manage them properly. Read
the comic strip to answer some questions about proper waste
management.

Different types of wastes can be Biodegradable wastes are

classified into three: wastes that decompose
biodegradable, non- (nabubulok). Yard cuttings
biodegradable and hazardous like leaves, twigs, paper
wastes. products and kitchen wastes
belong to this type of wastes.

Kitchen wastes like spoiled food, Non-biodegradable wastes are

fish and meat bones, fruits and wastes that do not decompose
vegetable peelings are examples (hindi nabubulok). Plastics,
of biodegradable wastes. These glasses, cans and metal scraps
could be used in feeding animals belong to this type of wastes.
like chicken, ducks, pigs and We can recycle these wastes or
other animals. These wastes can sell them in the junkshops.
also be used in composting.

Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

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 Hazardous wastes have Hazardous wastes like paint,
toxins. They are explosive and solvent, gasoline, thinner, varnish,
poisonous. They can burn fertilizer and muriatic acid should
our skin as well as metals and be handled properly because they
can also carry diseases. This can poison our body if accidentally
dangerous type of wastes touched eaten or drank. It is
include expired medicines, advised to use gloves and masks in
used bulbs, chemicals and
handling these materials. Cover
batteries.
your nose or wash your hands
when exposed to these substances.

We should classify our wastes There is a need for the people to

to properly manage them. We find ways on how to solve waste
should put them in the problems, because it is our
proper bin or garbage can or responsibility to protect our
container. We can even environment. Together, we can do
recycle or reuse wastes to it by being responsible citizens.
minimize garbage problems. This is one way of showing love to
our planet Earth.

Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

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Directions: Read the questions carefully about how to manage wastes properly.
Choose the letter only of the correct answer and write it on a sheet of
paper.

1. Fruit and vegetable peelings are biodegradable wastes. How should these
wastes be managed?
A. Throw in the canal.
B. Use the wastes for composting activity.
C. Sell in junkshops.
D. Dispose anywhere.
2. Plastics and metal scraps are non-biodegradable wastes. What should be done
to manage these?
A. Put it in a sack and throw it in a vacant lot.
B. Sell in the junkshop.
C. Leave the waste scattering in the area.
D. Throw in the compost pit.
3. Hazardous wastes are poisonous. What should be done in handling this type of
waste?
A. Use gloves and mask in handling the materials.
B. Pick with your hands and throw in the trash can.
C. Put in the compost pit.
D. Collect and place near your food products.
4. Your family decides to have a backyard compost pit. What waste materials
should be included as compost materials?
A. cans and plastic containers
B. expired medicines and metal scraps
C. leaves, twigs and food waste
D. bottles and old newspapers
5. Which of the following is a proper management of waste?
A. Throw the trash anywhere if nobody is watching.
B. Dump hazardous waste in the river.
C. Burn non-biodegradable waste like plastic packaging to reduce waste.
D. Feed biodegradable wastes like plant peelings to animals.

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 Remember:

Classifying and managing wastes found in school, home and

community would help us minimize problems about garbage.
Biodegradable wastes should not be automatically thrown in bins.
Composting, a method taught in Agriculture subject, would help in
converting biodegradable wastes into organic fertilizer. Dead animals and
rotten plants should be buried in the pit to prevent foul odor and to make
them into compost.

Non-biodegradable wastes should be converted into useful

things. There are so many DIY’s or “Do It Yourself” projects that you can
do out of the wastes that do not decompose. Use your creativity to make
new materials such as toys, decorations, art projects and others.

Hazardous wastes are dangerous wastes. It is advised to put

this type of waste in a sealed container and dispose properly by burying in
specially built landfills or pit. Dispose this type of waste with adult
supervision.

Proper Waste
Management

Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

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 What’s More

A. Directions: The pupils are sharing ideas about proper waste management at
home, in school, and in the community. Read carefully and answer
the checklist that follows after reading this.

Proper Waste
3. Sell plastic bottles, tin cans and
Management at Home
metal scraps in the junk shop to
at Home
Have bins for the different lessen wastes at home.
kinds of wastes at home.

Biodegradable Recyclable Non-

Biodegradable

2. Throw biodegradable wastes

like fruit and vegetable
4. Convert wastes at home into
peelings, dried leaves and school projects or outputs.
grasses
or outputs.into the backyard
compost pit to convert them
into fertilizer. Don’t burn the
garbage at home.

Convert wastes at home into

school projects or outputs.

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 Proper Waste
Management in School

3. Turn into compost all

1. Separate, reduce, reuse and biodegradable scraps in
recycle school wastes. school.

4. Follow instructions on how to

2. Have an Income Generating
manage wastes in the
Project in school like selling
Material Recovery Facility or
recycled stuffs.
MRF.

Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

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 Proper Waste Management
in the Community
Always remember that
proper waste management is the
1. Collect, segregate and store responsibility of all. If we fail to
the different types of wastes manage our wastes, there will be
properly. flash flood due to clogged
2. Secure the garbage bag drainage. Pests like rats,
tightly to prevent animals cockroaches and mosquitoes
from scattering them.
will multiply if garbage is not
3. Support clean-up activities
managed well. A dirty and
of waterways, canals,
smelly environment is
creeks and public places in
unhealthy. Diseases will spread
the community.
if we will not take care of our
4. Observe the schedule of
own wastes.
garbage retrieval by
garbage collectors or
garbage trucks.

Let us make our

community clean
and safe!

Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

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 CHECKLIST OF PARTICIPATION

B. Directions: Answer the checklist honestly with YES or NO as to your

participation in managing waste at home, in school and
community. Write your answers on a sheet of paper.

A. WASTE MANAGEMENT AT HOME YES NO

1. Throws trash in proper bins

2. Maintains a backyard compost pit

3. Collects recyclable wastes and sells in junkshops

4. Converts wastes into useful things

B. WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SCHOOL

1. Segregates wastes in school

2. Brings biodegradable waste in the school’s compost pit

3. Saves plastic packaging during recess for recycling

4. Joins the routine of cleaning school areas

C. WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY

1. Participates in community programs like Clean Up Drives

2. Secures waste in a container or sack before disposing them in

the community’s waste recovery facility
3. Segregates wastes found in the community

4. Maintains the cleanliness of your own area in the community

Did you check more on Yes or No? If you have more “Yes” then you are helping
a lot in managing waste. If you have more “No” then it is time for you to participate
in proper waste management. It will never be too late to join or show acts of kindness
in helping solve our problems in managing waste. Encourage your family members
to take part in saving or protecting our environment.

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C. Directions: Let’s meet Lino and Lina. Read and understand their story. Find
out how to practice proper waste management at home, in school
and in the community?

Hello there! We are Lino and Lina.

We are here to tell you the 5Rs of
waste management to make our
school, home and community clean.

The 5Rs of waste management are:

REDUCE
REUSE
RECYCLE
RECOVER
REPAIR

REDUCE!
Lessen the amount of your trash. Think before
buying.
 Buy only what you need.
 Don’t buy products with unnecessary
packaging.
 Refuse plastic bags. Bring your own
bag when shopping.

REUSE!
Find other uses for the materials that are
already used.
 Use reusable things rather than
disposables.
 Reuse scrap paper for taking
notes.
 Reuse packaging materials.

Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

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 RECYCLE
Create a new product out of the material that
already served its purpose. It’s taking
something and using it for something else.

We can earn money if we will think of

ways to reuse or recycle wastes. Take a look at
the diagram on how we can manage or convert
wastes into useful things.

plastic bottles plant holder

straws mat

jar organizer

plastic spoons decoration

used colored paper bags

papers

Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan / Photos by Francilet R. Padios

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 RECOVER
Recover energy that comes from trash
itself.

Incineration technology involves producing

electricity by burning garbage that cannot be
recycled in the incinerator. This combustion or
thermal treatment can be used to generate heat,
gas and steam for power. Look at how energy is
recovered from wastes.

Recovery

Fuel and Heat

Wastes

Electricity

Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

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 Recovering wastes involves sorting or
segregation of trashes. We should
separate wastes correctly and then
dispose them properly.

REPAIR

Let’s fix slightly broken

things so that they can be
used again.

Remember:

If wastes will be managed properly through

5Rs, this will lessen garbage problems in
our country. You could make this world a
better place to live in.

Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

After reading the story, what are your realizations about waste
management? Will it be difficult for you to do one of the 5R’s mentioned by
Lino and Lina? In your own home, which of the 5R’s did you and your family
do? How about in your school? Is your community supporting the 5R’s of
waste management?
Being a responsible member in home, school and community is of great
help in maintaining a healthy environment. Choose to be a person who in
little ways or perhaps in big ways could manage the trash properly.

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 What I Have Learned

Directions: Fill in the blank with the correct word or words inside the box. Write
your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Put __________ in the garbage bins or trash cans the different kinds of wastes
in school and make sure that the right bins are used properly.

2. Bury food scraps, plants and dead animals in the __________ to convert into
compost.

3. Recycle bottles, tin cans and paper found in the community by selling them
in __________.

4. We should properly __________ waste found in the community.

5. Manage reusable wastes at home by __________ them into toys, art projects
and home decorations.

junkshops recycling labels

pit segregate

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 What I Can Do

Directions: Take a look at the different types of wastes in Column A. Choose the
letter of the correct answer on how to manage the wastes properly in
Column B. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

Column A Column B

1.
A. Convert into musical instrument like
metal scraps tambourine.

2.
paper bag B. Put in the compost pit.

3.

bottle caps C. Sell in the junkshop.

4.
D. Donate to a school library or give to
children as reading materials.
animal manure

5.

old books E. Reuse the packaging material.

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 Assessment

A. Directions: Write C if the statement shows proper management of wastes and

X if it does not. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

Throw dead Segregate wastes

Label the garbage
animals in the and dispose
cans properly.
bodies of water. correctly.

1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________

Use recyclable
wastes in making Burn garbage
home with plastic
decorations. packaging.

4. __________ 5. __________
Illustrated by Zoila Mae P. Panes, Riza E. Celebrado, and Marvin P. Pagurayan

B. Directions: Write True if the statement shows proper management of wastes

and False if it does not. Write your answers on a separate sheet of
paper.

1. Put the biodegradable wastes in a green bin.

2. Secure the garbage bag tightly to prevent animals from scattering the trash in
the community.
3. Throw empty plastic wrappers under the chair when nobody is watching.
4. Join community services like Clean and Green Program to help in the
management of wastes.
5. Gloves and masks are not needed in handling hazardous materials.

Thank you for accomplishing this module. Congratulations!

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 Additional Activity

Directions: Waste materials can be used in making musical instruments. Take

a look at how these materials can be useful in making a rattle for your
Music activities.

You need the following: RATTLES

Materials
1. Containers like
(any of the following)
jar, can, plastic bottle Procedures
or small box
1. Choose the container
2. Rattle materials like
for your rattle.
seeds, small stones,
paper clips, sand or 2. Put your chosen
small metal scraps rattle material inside
(any of the following) the container.

3. Tape 3. Cover the container

tightly and secure
with a tape.

4. Shake your rattle to

produce sound.

It is now ready as a
percussion instrument
in your Music class.

Photo by Francilet R. Padios

Note: You may use other waste materials found in

school, home and community in making your
improvised musical instrument.

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What I Know What’s More Assessment
1. Disagree
2. Agree B. Pupils answer A.
3. Agree may vary 1. C
4. Agree 2. X
5. Disagree 3. C
6. Agree 4. C
7. Agree 5. X
8. Agree
9. Disagree
10. Agree
B.
What’s New What I Have
1. True
A. Learned 2. True
1. C
2.
1. labels 3. False
A
3. B 2. pit 4. True
B. 3. junkshops 5. False
1. green bin 4. segregate
2. blue bin 5. recycling
3. yellow bin
4. green, yellow and
blue bins
Additional Activity
What Is It What I Can Do
1. B 1. C
2. B 2. E Output: Rattle as a
3. A 3. A percussion
4. C 4. B instrument for Music
5. D 5. D class
Answer Key
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