Eco-friendly Diwali 2021: 10 ways How to celebrate an eco-friendly Diwali
Diwali is the biggest Hindu festival of India known as a festival of lights. It is a five days long festival which is celebrated all over India. The festival is celebrated mainly because it signifies the victory of truth over evil.
Although there is an ancient story behind it to celebrate the Deepawali festival. When the king of Ayodhya, god ram comes to their home back after 14 years of exile with their wife goddess Sita & brother Laxman. That auspicious time is solemnized by the citizens of Ayodhya.
But apart from that, many things occur in this festival which is having a bad impact on the planet earth. People do multiple things during the time of Diwali: they clean their home, make rangolis, burn diyas, make delicious sweets, purchase new clothes, etc.
Millions of people celebrate the Diwali festival every year which is good, however, they refuse to look at the environment’s health & buy plastic products, burst firecrackers, and waste tons of food. These all are the reasons to build a dump yard & produce pollution.
The main intention of writing this blog is to tell people that there is still a way to help the environment by celebrating Diwali in an eco-friendly way.
Now you are thinking what is eco-friendly Diwali
What is eco-friendly Diwali?
Eco-friendly Diwali meaning is to celebrate a Diwali festival without damaging or harming the environment’s health.
It includes those practices which could be replaced from those things that negatively impact the environment
Few activities could be considered in green Diwali
- To buy sustainable eco-friendly products
- Use organic items (flowers, paper crafts) to decorate the house
- Purchase less plastic products
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If people use these practices to celebrate Diwali then it definitely could be called eco-friendly Diwali or green Diwali.
10 ways to celebrate an eco-friendly Diwali
Here we wrote a detailed guide about what people can do to celebrate an eco-friendly Diwali.
Use soil-made diyas & earthen lamps for lightning. Diyas & earthen lamps use oil for illumination which provides multiple benefits:
- Diyas/Earthen lamps are made of soil so could be efficiently reused or recycled.
- Minimize the pollution
- Cut down the electricity bill
- Easily available in the market with low cost
- House looks attractive & can’t compare its beauty with lightning
As we all know, shopping is the major part of Diwali & during Diwali people start purchasing clothes before one month.
However, what if I say to you that in the market various sustainable clothing brands present who offer a huge clothing collection for everyone which helps to take your festival or life towards sustainability.
Now, if you are thinking about what is sustainable clothes let me tell you sustainable clothes are look similar to normal clothes but the difference is not that they are made up of using organic fibers which provides you more sustainability.
Rangoli is another amazing activity that has been done by people from ancient days.
Generally, colours (gulal) are used to make the rangoli at the entrance of the house. However in these days, maximum gulal contains hazardous chemicals that’s why people should avoid the use of chemical colours & make the colour at home (believe us it is very easy) or use branded natural colours, flowers, leaves, etc.
Shopping is the essential part of Deepawali festival & people are so excited about this but what they don’t know is they will use tons of plastic items for their home meanwhile weights of plastic bags are wasted & thrown anywhere. So this Diwali let’s say no to plastic bags & begin with any other sustainable items.
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Instead of giving rupees to youngers, relatives, friends,
Gifting is a significant part of the Indian tradition on Diwali, but what if we will gift them environment-friendly products which not only look unique but also work for them & not harm the environment too.
Presently, In the market, numerous kinds of eco-friendly products are available like eco-friendly baby products, Organic beauty products, Travel products, Bathroom products, Eco-friendly kitchen products, sustainable clothes & more. These gifts express your care about the environment & will encourage more people to give others environment-friendly items.
Unique Diwali gifts
During the festival week of Deepawali people buy sweets in large quantity but what they can do to give an eco-friendly touch to their Diwali is they can make sweets at home with organic food ingredients which will minimize the risk of getting ill.
I am saying this because various sweets come in plastic boxes due to the fact that it reduces the food quality & also would not be freshly sweets packed every time.
That is one more element that people forget is they brought chemical god idols. Make sure to purchase statues that are used soil as a raw material in manufacturing.
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Diwali is the symbol of sharing happiness with others & erasing all evilness from your heart. Deepawali not only celebrating with your family, friends & loved ones however it could be celebrated with needy people also.
We have an idea how you can do it you can buy new clothes or donate old stuff with others or use your home waste & create valuable items and then donate with poor people. In addition, you can also gift sweet boxes to poor people.
During Diwali week people harm stray animals. people can initiate & come ahead for spreading the awareness or request neighbours, relatives, friends, or could use social media not to do anything misbehave with animals.
Firecrackers are the only thing that is responsible for producing the maximum percentage of pollution in Diwali week. If people would control or stop burning firecrackers then the pollution level would be reduced in India.
To improve the environment or reduce pollution, the Indian government launched eco-friendly crackers or Green crackers. I guess that is the only thing that people know very well because since 2018 green crackers have become very popular in India.
What are green crackers?
Eco-friendly crackers are created by the Indian Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR). Green crackers sound similar to normal crackers, these types of firecrackers are made of recycled paper & they produce approximately 30 to 35 percent less pollution.
There are essentially three types of green crackers
- Safe water RELEASER (SWAS)
- Safe minimal aluminum (SAFAL)
- Safe thermite cracker(STAR)
Benefits of green crackers
- Low in cost
- Reduce all types of air, sound, ocean pollution
- Use less harmful raw materials in the manufacturing process
- Work as similar to traditional crackers
- It will detract the damage of living things health
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Eco-friendly Diwali Slogans
We write down few slogans which matched with Eco-friendly Diwali so through these you can encourage people to play safe & healthy Diwali & reducing the use of crackers
In Hindi
- मिट्टी के दिए हैं दीवापली की पहचान, इस्सके बिना न होगी दिवाली की शान
- दिवाली अपनों से साथ मनाएं न कि पटाखों के साथ
- बिना पटाखें दिवाली मनाओ, इस धरती को दूषित होने से बचाओ
In English
- This Diwali burst your ego, not crackers
- Celebrate Eco-friendly Diwali not pollution-friendly
- Don’t Act Mean, Go Green.
Originally published at https://justeco.in.
