The Next Big Thing In Flower Waste Management And Recycle
A blossom/flower, here and there known as a sprout or bloom, is the conceptive structure found in
Blossoming (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, additionally called angiosperms). The organic capacity
of sperm with eggs.
Notwithstanding encouraging the proliferation of blossoming plants, flowers have for quite some time been appreciated and utilized by people to convey magnificence to their condition, and furthermore as objects of sentiment, custom, religion, prescription, and as a wellspring of nourishment.
Indian context
India is a land of diversity with a huge amount of flora and fauna. Here will explain how solid waste (flowers) is being recycled for a cleaner environment and water bodies. India is basically an amalgamation of different cultures and subcultures yet retaining the exact flavors. This makes it a unique country. Flower plays a vital role in Indian culture. From sunrise to sunset flowers are used on different occasions-mainly as offering in the puja. Be it a wedding, worship, or medicinal practices; the flower is an integral part of being in Indian tradition.
Various types of Flowers:
In India, we get a variety of flowers like roses, marigold, jasmine, lily, tuberoses, lotus, saffron, etc.
The spiritual significance of flowers:
Flowers resemble purity and selflessness. The sight of attractive fresh flowers has a soothing and positive effect on spectators, which is why they hold a special place in the history of humanity since time immemorial. “Lotus” also known as the “Padma” is the national flower of India. Also called by names such as the "Indian Lotus," the "Sacred Lotus," and the "Bean of India.'' Due to its mythological connections, it is considered a sacred flower and is associated with Indian Gods like Brahma, Vishnu, Goddess Lakshmi, and Saraswati.In Buddhism, the lotus symbolizes purity of the body, speech, and mind owing to the reason that even after growing out of mud, these flowers bloom on long stalks as if floating above the muddy waters representing detachment and aversion from desire.
The are other flowers like Star Jasmine (Kunda), Plumeria too have importance in Indian culture.
Various uses of flowers in India:
Extensive use in Ayurveda as medicine:
Flowers not only spread aroma, but it is also packed with curative power; Just naming only a few well-known flowers with medicinal value
Calendula – The bright yellow petals of calendula flowers are most effective when mixed with other substances to create ointments or creams. It can then be used on the skin to heal burns, cuts, and wounds.
Carnation – When separated from the base of the flower (which is bitter), Carnation petals can be brewed to make excellent tea to reduce anxiety, agitation, stress, and fatigue. It can reduce swelling also
Chrysanthemum – Chrysanthemum is another flower that makes a great tea when steeped in hot water. Drinking this tea brings noticeable relief for those suffering from a fever, headache, or common cold.
Dandelion – Dandelions are very effective for cleaning the blood and also in anemia. In Native American culture, it was also used as a laxative and a tonic of overall wellbeing.
Jasmine – Sweet, exotic jasmine flowers do not only make a delicious cup of tea, but they also aid in digestive issues, stomach ulcers, and ulcers. Sipping this brew before bedtime can keep away insomnia and anxiety.
Lilac – Lilacs can be steeped to make a tonic that reduces fever and to get rid of internal parasites. Skin burns or wounds are soothed and heal well when a paste or gel made from lilacs is applied.
Lotus – Lotus flowers are popular in both Eastern and Western cultures for their effectiveness against fever, diarrhea, and also more serious illnesses such as cholera and bronchitis. A syrup made from the flower provides much relief for bad coughs.
Roses – Roses contains a good deal of Vitamin C and is very safe for human consumption. The petals can be eaten raw to increase blood circulation, and they also relieve depression. Rose tea acts as a mild laxative. A paste or cream made from the petals does wonder to improve the condition of the skin, especially on the face used in facials.
For gifting purpose:
Flowers help expressing human emotions. It is always considered as the failsafe gift on occasions like a birthday celebration or anniversary of a loved one or condolences for the family who has lost a dear one, flowers aptly express your emotions. Since each flower and its color has its own significance while selection one should remember the occasion where it is to be used. Flowers help create a positive atmosphere such as oriental lilies and roses are scented and this is the reason why patients have presented these fragrant flowers all over the world. Roses particularly red ones signify love and extensively used during Valentine’s Day celebrations Flowers are also considered as the best wedding gifts as they signify innocence in a relationship. Flower gifts on weddings help make the entire experience worth delight.In wedding:
This is the second largest area where flowers are used. Starting from the decoration of mandap to bridal makeup. This not only gives a beautiful, refreshing look but also considered auspicious. The reception ceremonies look inviting and luxurious when adorned with fresh flowers. Flowers mostly used while decorating mandap include marigold, roses, tuberose, jasmine, carnations in traditional decorations. But recently with the changing taste and preferences of the Indian population, a variety of other exotic flowers like tulips, chrysanthemum, dahlia's, orchids, freesia, delphinium, peonies, hydrangeas, and calla lilies are being used in wedding decor. A beautiful contrast is created with shades of reds, whites, pinks, purple, and other vibrant colors.
A garland ceremony is of the utmost important ceremony in any Indian wedding. Both fragrant and non-fragrant flowers are combined to create appealing garlands. Flowers such as roses, lilies, carnations, jasmine, marigold are arranged together to create a stunning pattern. Also, the bridal makeup in Indian weddings cannot be called complete without a hairstyle that does not have flowers in them
In Shrines:
A shrine is a place of worship hallowed by association with a sacred person or object. In India, we have a variety of shrines associated with Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and Jews, etc. In all these worship places flowers are an inevitable object. To show gratitude towards god people offer flowers with prayer.
The problem arises when flowers are discarded after the purpose is achieved
The flowers used in various rituals and ceremonies in the temples, mosques, gurdwaras prove difficult to dispose of. Tipping the discarded petals into flowing waters like rivers, ponds, lakes is one option, but this adds to the burdens for India's heavily polluted waterways.
Waste management and recycling of the flowers:
Contributions worth mentioning:
A. From a woman entrepreneur:
Ms. Parimala Shivaprasad, A Chemical designer and eco-business person, has the arrangement. She has a major plan to assemble a social endeavor that will empower temples in India to separate essential oils from the utilized and extra blossoms, and the remaining parts can be utilized as a natural fertilizer for developing vegetables to help feed poor people. In her words, "I need to gather the floral waste and concentrate the fundamental oils from the fragrant part, the biomass, and afterward, compost whatever remains of the biomass to deliver natural fertilizer, taking a gander at totally reusing the bloom squander."
Parimala says "around two million tons of flower squander in India is disposed of consistently after religious services, quite a bit of which could be completely reused". The waste flowers from temples cannot be joined with typical waste, as feelings are appended so they are normally arranged in streams and so on or dumped on open grounds producing the contamination as a natural issue from spoiling blossoms adds to the development of green growth, which can exhaust oxygen levels and cause damage to marine life. Spoiling blossoms may likewise cause contamination issues ashore.
She has composed a three-stage thought,
1. Testing in the lab:
She has effectively built up a gear that would separate oil from the blossoms in the temple itself
2. The lead pilot looks into:
At first, Parimala is intending to do a pilot inquire about examination at a temple in Bangalore, with the assistance of her dad, who is a scientific expert.
Once it turns out to be fruitful, she will stretch out the preliminary to more shrines in the region before drawing in at setting up establishments crosswise over India.
3. Satisfying her fantasy:
To add to the undertaking clean India-She says her fantasy is to transform the thought into a social venture that will help handle the floral waste issue in India.
B. Venture “Green Wave”.
Another Contribution from Innovative person Sri. Nikhil Gampa -a Master's student in social entrepreneurship from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences from north-eastern suburbs of Mumbai is creating incense sticks from waste temple flowers through his year-old venture Green Wave. According to him "Because of the carbon structure of flowers, their biodegradation takes a very long time. The soil can be poisoned and the pollution cycle renewed,"
At the three temples in Mumbai he has tied up with, he has placed special dustbins to collect waste flowers. These are emptied once every two days by the women working with his venture “Green Wave”.
The flowers are then sorted and set out to dry. The dried flowers are powdered and mixed with binding powder and sawdust and then rolled over with bamboo sticks to make the incense stick. Currently producing approximately 15 kg of incense sticks per week, he hopes that soon they will be able to start production on a daily basis. Besides tying up with the temples to use the recycled incense sticks and identifying online platforms to sell them, Sri. Gampa is also involved in training the ladies at “Green Wave” to sell the products, paving the way to women's employment. Besides this, he is trying to come up with a wide range of products made with flower waste, including color dyes, powdered colors for Holi, fragrances, paper, and mosquito repellent.
C. Project “Help us green”
Another significant waste management by Ankit Agarwal, an Indian business visionary. Hindu temples frequently toss the spent blossoms into the River Ganges, a revered conduit. In any case, this worsens the Ganges' amazing contamination: The blooms are splashed with pesticides and different synthetic compounds that drain into the environment. When Agarwal and his accomplice and beloved companion Karan Rastogi initially proposed discovering elective uses for the waste, they met a ton of obstruction. The temple authorities figured the young fellows wouldn't treat the blossoms with the required veneration, or that there couldn't in any way, shape, or form be a business in bloom reusing. Two years on, they've refuted the naysayers. Agarwal and Rastogi have a flourishing organization called “Helpusgreen”, which creates a scope of items from the blossoms, including incense sticks, advanced fertilizer (735 tons up until this point) and washing cleansers.
From Sarsol, a little town in Kanpur, in Uttar Pradesh, Agarwal and Rastogi currently gather 1.5 tons of blooms each day. They work with 29 temples and three mosques. Also, they're just barely beginning. They intend to dispatch in Varanasi soon, one the holiest destinations for Hindus, and additionally in Haridwar, Allahabad, and Kolkata, all urban areas along the Ganges River.
Squander pickers are a key piece of the task. “Helpusgreen” pays these casual "foragers" to sort the blossoms in their distinctive kinds while taking out undesirable container holders and wreath strings. Agarwal says the pickers– generally ladies of lower castes– ordinarily acquire around 10 rupees per day however now get somewhere around 150 rupees. "Once in a while you get social undertakings that have incomes and that are in benefit," Agarwal says. "Everybody says inevitably they'll profit, yet we're doing it. Furthermore, we're contacting the lives of individuals at the base of the pyramid. We find that their certainty level makes strides. Prior to this, their certainty level was zero." Agarwal says “Helpusgreen” had incomes of $43,210 a year ago and that benefits achieved 27%.
“Helpusgreen” persuaded the temples and mosques to give them a chance to have the flowers by asserting that the blooms would, it could be said, be utilized for holy purposes. Incense sticks, which are ordinarily made of coal, are a piece of Hindu custom, while the cleaners are utilized for decontamination. The sticks are sold in paper implanted with tulsi (blessed basil) seeds, getting around another transfer issue.
"In India, pictures of divine beings are utilized on incense items to support deals," Agarwal says. "Individuals think that it’s extremely intense to toss the cases in the dustbin in view of the picture. They tend to accumulate them or abandon them in the waterway or at a temple. With our bundling, once they've utilized the item they can sow the paper in the ground [and become the plant]."
Agarwal was as of late in New York, partaking in the current year's Echoing Green cooperation. The honor accompanies a two-year stipend worth about $90,000– cash that Agarwal wants to use for further extension.
D. From Ahmedabad:
Yash Bhatt and Arjun Thakkar, from the city-based Silver Oak Engineering College, have built up a machine that can process blooms and leaves into natural excrement in 15 days.
They together kick-started a pilot venture, in a relationship with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, to gather more than 300 kg of natural waste from temples and beat it into 100 kg of excrement consistently.
Addressing the production, Yash Bhatt uncovered how an address they went to at the Gujarat Technological University (GTU) Innovation Council helped them think inventively.
It was amid the exchanges there, that they understood that transfer of flowers, leaves, and coconut contributions was a noteworthy issue in light of religious feelings connected to them.
"We utilized a few compacting machines accessible yet later built up our very own machine," he said.
The task was subsidized by the GTU innovation council with a token of Rs 95,000.
He included how they sent a proposition to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation for doing the undertaking and were upbeat to discover bolster from the experts including the chairman, Bijal Patel.
They are presently running a pilot in the accompanying wards – Bodakdev, Thatlej, Ghatlodia, Naranpura, and Navrangpura. They have tied up with 22 temples and have furnished them with individual containers to gather the waste flowers, coconuts and clears out.
The pair has begun offering the compost at Rs 60 for each kg. They are additionally considering including Sakhi mandals for the offer of the items.
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