The increasing pollution, and global
temperatures and rising sea-level have got everyone`s attentions, that doesn`t
mean to exclude the new age of wedding planners. Wedding meant to be happen in
heaven so why to spoil it by using the plastic and trash materials which is
left over the earth. Most of the trash generates form the “Big Fat Indian
Wedding”, which badly affects our nature and environment.
But now people have become more concerned about nature, they had start saving
trees, stop using the plastic bags. Even the wedding are also organize in
eco-friendly way.
The concept of “green wedding” has
influenced the western culture more, they has start using this embraced green
way, getting inspired from them Bangalore has become a few zero waste weddings
place.
It is true that as big as the occasion
it will generate more waste and the emission of carbon will be more than usual.
It is proven that a single wedding on an average will generated about 62 tons
of carbon dioxide and around 200-300 KGs of garbage. Just imagine when
thousands of wedding stops reducing the usage of this wastage, the world would
become a happy and pollution-free space to live.
Using the eco-friendly items in wedding will cost you less, as compared to your
normal wedding budget. Arranging eco-friendly wedding is more favorable, and it
also give your wedding more classy and elegant look.
Our first step is to identify form all
the garbage or waste is coming from, follow some steps that can be used and
lastly methods to deal with this problem.
Don`t worry if you are thinking that
concept is tough, organizing an eco-friendly is very simple, easy and clean.
All one have to do, is to follow some rules and make some right choices to
achieve this.
Invitations:
The first thing which one can do is to analyze
those places and note them down where more amount of wastage is generated. The
quantity of paper which you send in invitations also goes in the dustbin
because no one notice them properly.
To avoid this, start using the recycled and
post-consumer waste paper, tree-free paper and digital medium, all these
options also give beautiful and elegant look, also reduce the resource
consumption.
You can also send wedding gifts that is some show
piece, decorative items, and other gifting items which can be re-gifted and it
will not become the part of trash.
Wedding decorations
Doing
decoration with those shiny objects, plastic flowers and thermocol and
Styrofoam boards has become the usual part of decoration. Even the flowers
which you generally choose for the decoration are coated with glittery
plastics. All these things are of no use when the wedding has done, it will
simply go in dustbin.
It`s
better to get the flowers from the local florist such as jasmine, marigold and shavantige, chandhuva
and the beautiful roses. After wedding these all flowers can be composed.
Just make sure that,
no plastic, or Styrofoam is used in decoration.
One more way to
reduce the carbon which is generated from the bridal make up and jewelry. Use eco-friendly jewelry like stones, and
metals, diamond gems and beautiful breathtaking metal pieces. Also using all
the natural beauty and herbal products for the skin at your wedding day is good
for the health.
Cutlery
The cutlery which used in dining-hall
should be eco-friendly and reusable, instead of using those Styrofoam soup
cups, plastic soups and paper cups for chaat. It`s better to serve food in
banana leady and all the cups, spoons, plates and coffee and hand wash bowls
should be made up of steel bowls or melamine.
These steel vessels are clean and
hygiene as they are washed with hot water. All you have to do is just to pay
the labour for washing this, which is cheaper than the disposables. In end you
will left with banana leaves that can be composted.
Table rolls and
Napkins
Instead of keeping the paper or plastic
roll on table, it is better to clean out the table after every dining. The
table should be clean two times once clean it with water and then again with a
sanitized cloth.
At the end of wedding, you will find a
large amount of solid paper which can`t be recycled, but in case of wiping you
have to wash the cloth only and reuse for other weddings.
Don’t use those paper tissues, normally
people use two tissues after meal, Instead of paper tissues start using the
cotton cloth which can be washed and reuse again.
Water:
Wasting
money on plastic water bottle will give you nothing except the garbage, in wedding
time you have to keep at least two water bottle on each table, sometimes people
will ask for more, all these plastic bottles will go in trash only.
These
thousands of plastic/paper cups which have generated form which paper cups
cannot be recycled and plastic cups have very low recycling value.
Instead
of this, serve water in steel mugs which can be washed and reuse again.
At
the end, there is no wastage disposals and it is very cost-effective.
Food
Serving
large proportions, and rapidly would make tough for people to refuse which they
don’t like. Which means huge quantity of food is waste along with plastic spoon
and cups.
Instead
of this, serve small portions, at a slower pace to avoid wastage.
At the end
What you can do is:
Collect all the waste
which produced during the cooking of food and sent to bio gas plant for
recycling.
The food which is
wasted after the meals should be sent to the piggeries/ or bio gas unit.
The banana leaves can
be kept separately and mixed with cow-dung for the composting or cleaned either
you can sent it to goshala.
We all know, wedding
is said to be the occasions of memory, joy and celebration. So it only depend
on people choice to make the wedding outstanding and forget about the planet.
If everyone also
thinks about the planet along with the wedding occasion then it will definitely
become a beautiful and joyful place to live.
Be remember to celebrate the wedding
occasion in eco-friendly way.
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