SELF-LEARNING MATERIAL 8 - QUARTER 2

AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION

Grade 9

Name: ___________________________________ Date: _____________

School: ___________________________________

Competency: Store plant debris and waste material produced during nursery activities according to
nursery/OHS procedure.
Motivation: How did you store your garden waste materials at home? Did you store and dispose of it
altogether or did you segregate it according to their classification? As a student, what are the proper waste
storage and disposal guidelines in your barangay that you follow?

Unlocking of Terms

Green waste –also known as “biological waste’, is any organic waste that can be composted. It is most usually
composed of refuse from the garden such as grass clippings or leaves.
Brown waste –is any biodegradable waste that is predominantly carbon-based. The term includes such items
as grass cuttings, dry leaves, twigs, sawdust, corn cobs, cardboard, etc.
Carbon cycle –describes the process in which carbon atoms continually travel from the atmosphere to the
Earth and then back into the atmosphere.
Incineration of waste materials –it converts the waste into ash, flue gas, and heat. The flue gases must be
cleaned of gaseous and particulate pollutants before they are dispersed into the atmosphere. In some cases, the
heat that is generated by incineration can be used to generate electric power.

Types of Waste Material Inside the Plant Nursery and How Will It Be Disposed of/Stored

1. Green Waste –also known as “biological waste”, is any organic waste that can
be composted. It is most usually composed of refuse from gardens and nurseries
such as grass clippings or plant leaves and stump, trimmings and plant materials,
shrub, branches, and weeds, vegetative clippings, and wood chips.
Healthy plant parts that belong to green waste can be used again through
composting to improve the quality of the soil for your plants. Unhealthy or
diseased plant parts must not be composted together with the other healthy plant parts Grass Clippings
but should be burned so that plant pathogens will not spread any further. Nursery tools
and equipment used during the cutting and disposal of diseased plant parts must be sterilized to avoid cross-
contamination inside the plant nursery.

2. Brown waste –is any biodegradable waste that is predominantly carbon-based.

The term includes such items as dry leaves, twigs, sawdust, cardboard, corn cobs,
etc. Any plant waste which is dry, fibrous, and hard is generally recognized as
“brown”. Brown waste is more resistant to decay. You can consider them as the
slow-burning food for your compost and very rich in carbon. Carbon is necessary Dry Leaves
to compost, which uses a combination of green waste and brown waste to promote microbial processes
involved in the decomposition process. So the composting of brown waste sustainably returns the carbon to
the carbon cycle.

3. Recyclable waste –usually recyclable waste found in the plant nursery includes plastic and clay pots, empty
liquid fertilizer gallons/containers, seedling trays, and other plant containers. But before using it again if they
are still fit to use, you must sterilize them first to kill any plant pathogens. If not in good condition, clean them
first and sort them based on their color and you can surrender them for recycling if there are any recycling
areas near you. Planters from recycled materials are better for the environment, and they can provide some
unexpected benefits as well.

Plastic Pots Plastic Seedling Trays Clay Pots

4. Non-recyclable waste –usually a plastic consumer item such as vinyl hand gloves, fiberglass, styrofoam
materials especially if used as hydrophonic planters, plastic net nylon mesh, laminated plant labels, water
hose, and consumer items such as plastic bags and plastic containers made up of polyethene like seed packs
and fertilizer packs. This waste can’t be recycled or isn’t biodegradable. This waste usually ends up in landfills,
but in other cities burned their solid waste including the non-recyclable through plant incinerators. In
incineration applications, the fuel is predominantly waste and the oxygen source is air.

Hydrophonics Plastic Net Nylon Plastic Mulch Laminated Plant

Styrofoam Planters Mesh Labels
5. Hazardous waste – are wastes or products that have the potential to harm humans or the environment and
should not be treated like other kinds of garbage because of their potential to harm. Common examples are
chemical inputs such as inorganic fertilizers including liquid fertilizer, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, oil
and grease lubricant for the tools, and diseased plant parts.

Inorganic Fertilizer Fungicide and Grease Lubricating Oil

Insecticide Spray

MODELING ACTIVITY

Directions: Leo wants to organize his vegetable nursery but he had difficulty on how to store production
wastes into its designated area. Can you help Leo? On the table below, you can find the cluttered things from
his nursery that needs to be organized and stored to its rightful place.

Laminated plant labels Grass Clippings Sawdust

Used Lubricating Oil Torn Plastic Net Nylon Mesh Trimmed blight infected leaves

Dry Leaves Broken Fiberglass Used Grease

Old Clay Pots Twigs Opened Seedling Packs

Classify them according to how each material is stored or disposed of etc. Just pick out the materials on the
table above and write them on the box below with their corresponding classification.

Green/Brown Waste for Green/Brown Waste Infected Recyclables for reuse or sell
Composting with Plant Disease for Burning to scrap buyers
1. 1. 1.
2. 2. 2.
3. 3. 3.

4.
 Non-recyclable For Hazardous Material For Proper
Landfill/Incinerator Storage And / Or Sanitary Landfill for
Empty Containers of Hazardous
1.
Materials
2.
1.
3.
2.
4.
The answer is:
Green/Brown Waste for Green/Brown Waste Infected Recyclables for reuse or sell
Composting with Plant Disease for Burning to scrap buyers
1. Dry Leaves 1. Trimmed blight infected leaves 1. Old Clay Pot
2. Grass Clippings

3. Twigs

4. Sawdust

Non-recyclable For Landfill/Local Hazardous Material For Proper

Incinerator Storage And / Or Sanitary Landfill for
1. Laminated Plant Labels Empty Containers of Hazardous
Materials
2. Torn Plastic Net Nylon Mesh
1. Used Lubricating Oil
3. Broken Fiberglass
2. Used Grease
4. Opened Seedling Packs
 ACTIVITY FOR SELF-LEARNING MATERIAL 8 – QUARTER 2
AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION
Grade 9

Name: ___________________________________ Date: _____________

School: ___________________________________

Competency: Store plant debris and waste material produced during nursery activities according to
nursery/OHS procedure.
Directions: Rosa wants to organize her small plant nursery at home but she had difficulty on how to store
nursery production wastes into its designated area. Can you help Rosa? On the table below, you can find the
cluttered things from her nursery that needs to be organized and stored in their rightful place.

Wood chips Vegetative Clippings Shrub

Torn Plastic Mulch Torn Vinyl Hand Gloves Old Hydrophonic Styrofoam Planters

Empty Spray Bottle of Insecticide Used Herbicide Unused Bottle of Grease

Used Seedling Tray Used Clay Pots Used Plastic Pots

Phytophthora infected stock Trimmed leaves with aphids Pruned branches with fungal infection

Classify them according to how each material is stored or disposed of etc. Just pick out the materials on the
table above and write them on the box below with their corresponding classification.

Green/Brown Waste for Green/Brown Waste Infected Recyclables for reuse or sell
Composting with Plant Disease for Burning to scrap buyers
1. 1. 1.
2. 2. 2.
3. 3. 3.

Non-recyclable For Hazardous Material For Proper

Landfill/Incinerator Storage And / Or Sanitary Landfill for
Empty Containers of Hazardous
1.
Materials
2.
1.
3.
2.
4.
3