Single-use Plastic Ban In India And Its Effect

We enter the second half of 2022, and a big change shakes the nation, that is Single- use of plastic is banned in India. The government of India has banned many items that were part of our daily life from usage. The huge step by the government of India will help the nation to combat plastic pollution. In this blogpost, we shall cover, how the single-use plastic ban affects the nation, how it affects the manufacturers, and what people have to do, with alternatives for plastic things.

Why ban Single-use plastic products?

These items are not recyclable and do not degrade with time. After the usage of these items, they land up in the trash where the landfills are filled. We have to make it a stop sooner or in a few decades, we will be witnessing mountains of plastic near us. The adverse effect of single-use plastic causes severe damage not only to the terrestrial ecosystem but also to the aquatic.

How Surprise Someone Builds Future with Recycled Paper

Do we ever have a count on how many papers are used in our writing or how many trees are cut to make 10 copies? Though the world is going digital day by day yet many activities require paper. Creating a paper without deforestation is one of the best possible ways. In our recent #EnvironmentalTalks with Pinky Maheshwari we came to know various aspects of papermaking and the art of customizing. Let us share with you about the organization and the founders of Surprise Someone and interview insights with Pinky Maheshwari.

Surprise Someone

It creates paper from the waste rags and cotton and not from paper, plus the papers have seeds planted in it so when these papers are discarded a sapling grows into a plant; by this, the enterprise is not only contributing towards the environment but also creating a business model that is sustainable for years and years. 

To conserve the environment and reduce deforestation this enterprise is making a wave of change and showing the path to many aspiring entrepreneurs. This enterprise gives livelihood to many rural people, and it also received an excellence award in an innovative product category. It is in the list of best 50 Start-up India at the India International Trade Fair in 2017. To train 10,000 girls to be self-sufficient and educate them this enterprise has a bright vision for the future generation. 

What Does EcoBloggers Community Say On Environment

We have been enthusiastically writing about the environment awareness posts in our #EnvironmentalTalks cause for the #CauseAChatter. We have carefully chosen the topics that bring the cognizance among readers and are grateful to all the Environmentalists and Founders of Eco-friendly enterprise guests who featured at our #EnvironmentalTalks sessions who discussed what a common person can do towards the benefit of the environment. 

What is Green Therapy & How does Green Therapy help balance Mental Health

Humans prosper when multiple factors around them are in a balanced form and one of the factors is nature in synchronization with humans. Have you ever felt the change in your mood and behavior when you are close to nature or a serene place that is gushing with the profoundness of the environment? A smile passes through our lips, the heart is content, eyes have nature's beauty to enjoy and one feels good about everything. If you are nodding in yes then you have also experienced nature therapy.

What is Green Therapy or Eco Therapy:

Green therapy is the practice of being amidst nature for healing, it also boosts the well-being of mental health. Green therapy is called Eco or Nature therapy. This practice in the ecopsychology field was developed by Theorode Roszak. It is nature’s way of healing people in the emotional, social, and physical blocks.

Plastic toys and their harmful effect on Nature #EnvironmentalTalks with Anshu Sharma

Toys and childhood go parallel in life and child get to learn many life facets through toys too, but how good are plastic toys for the child and how to lessen the effect of plastic toys on the environment is a big concern. Many times we question why we need change or why we need to replace the plastic toys for the green environment.

To understand this we invited Anshu Sharma, founder of Toysrep to discuss the effects of Plastic toys on nature and how a parent can select the toys so that it causes less harm or no harm on environment.

How and Why to celebrate festivals in an eco-friendly manner

The festive season is here, and so it marks the beginning of the positivity, laughter, and loads of preparations in the house begins. Many feel the buzzword of eco-friendly products starts as soon as the festive season embarks but the reality is the environment-friendly products are around the year only now, we focus on them. 

Most of us understand the importance of eco-friendly products or habits that can help the environment to retain mother nature but many times fail to reach the right channel. It is a proven fact that collective effort at a single time brings in the change, and that is the reason it is pleaded again and again by the environmentalist to make the wise decision during festivals. Mother Teresa aptly explained the scenario in the brilliant quote “None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful”.

How Green Yoga is positive step towards Green Environment

Yoga imbibes balance not only in our thoughts but also towards the world we live in. The nature around us bestows us with positive energy and yoga helps to train our senses to identify this energy. Thus yoga and the environment are interdependent in a way. Yoga takes us a step closer to mother nature, aids in better understanding of little things around us, harvesting our energy towards the betterment of all the living things around us. Where there is a positive flow of thoughts there will be increasing creativity and sensitivity towards the place we live in.

Today we all are vouching towards adopting sustainable techniques to tap the valuable resources and one of the ways is by practicing Green Yoga.

Learn how to restore environment from Peepal Baba: #EnvironmentalTalks highlights

The environment needs to be restored and we all need to contribute towards this cause proactively, to understand how we common person can be part of this change; we invited Peepal Baba of Give Me Trees Trust in the #EnvironmentalTalks in Instagram Live to understand the current situation of the tree plantation and ways one can be part of it.

Peepal Baba & Give Me Trees Trust 

Azad Jain, popularly known as Swami Prem Parivartan, took yoga and meditation classes in the evening, and later, he started being called Peepal Baba as he and his trust has planted more than 1 crore Peepal trees in the nation.

His journey began on a simple note by following his class 4 teacher to plant the trees and later his maternal grandmother to look after the planted trees. The journey that began in class four continued from then and was no stopping for him for 44 years. 

Give Me Trees was started as a school project then later on when volunteers started getting associated it was formed into the trust. Nationwide more than 2 million trees are planted by them and they are sure to bring the change.

5 Notable Tree plantation NGOs in India: Each step counts

Today on World Environment Day June 5, we all pledge to keep the environment safe and also watch many inspiring stories about how people are contributing to the efforts towards the environment. But how many of us make a conscious effort to bring change to the environment and surroundings. Many groups and trusts are actively involved in the tree plantation activity, and today we list with you 5 significant tree plantation NGOs in India working towards the betterment of the nation and in turn restoring the environment.

 

Why we need to replace Plastic Toys for Green Environment

In our 3rd post of #EnvironmentalTalks of #CauseAChatter, we will bring your focus on the toys that are an integral part of every household. According to the statistics, 70% of the toys are made of plastic and most of them are not one-time-use plastic that means toys are manufactured with materials that are difficult to recycle. Have you ever thought of recycling the toys or what happens when we discard the plastic toys and did you ever ponder upon the old plastic toys and their effects on children? 

Let us take a closer look at toys and their effect on the environment and how we can make the environment better with few changes.

Toys & their production:

Toys are produced in large numbers but India produces only 0.5% of the toys in the toy industry whereas China produces 80% of the toys in the world. The majority of the toys are plastic made and the life of it depends on the nature of the plastic and the usage of it.

Check the age of plastic toys:

We often keep toys of the elder child for the younger one and plastic toys are easy to handle and care additionally the colors don’t fade and they look as new once washed. But the older the plastic toys more harmful for your child. Earlier production of plastic toys did not go through vigorous checks on the quality of the plastic and it affects a child’s health once the child chews it. So discard all the older plastic toys which are 5-7 years older and it is good if they can be recycled.

How & Why Top Industries work towards better Environment

Change is evident in the world and the change-makers can make the change towards the betterment of society. In our previous post of #EnvironmentalTalks of #CauseAChatter, we discussed the importance of explaining the reasoning to children about the protection and care towards the environment. In this post, we shall have a closer look at the companies and industries that are working for the betterment of society plus taking decisions to revive the lost environmental areas.

Why Industries need to focus on Greener Solutions:

Industries have always been considered a major role in environmental pollution, therefore looking for a solution in this sector is the priority of the nation and the world. Industries are one of the largest growing sectors in India and with many upcoming entrepreneurs paving way for manufacturing the products on their own instead of importing. It is the responsibility of the owners to make the environment more greener with their efforts and also make sure that the industrial waste is minimum. Additionally properly dumping the industrial waste is the key aspect.

Why inculcate Environment awareness in Children

Environment and its uses are exposed to the children from an early age at the same time we also need to make children understand the awareness of the factors that are causing harm to the environment. 

Why inculcate Environment Awareness 

Children are the torch bearers of the future plus they are the ones who can bring in change along their growing years.

Childhood habits create a great impact in life additionally kids with the proper understanding of the environment will make the future manufacturing of the products in a manner that minimizes the harm to the environment. Can you imagine a world with environment-friendly products? If you are nodding in doubt then let us say that this can be a reality soon if we cultivate habits that are environment friendly in our children. 

The below pointers will help parents and educators to inculcate Environment awareness and the practices that can be followed for the betterment of the Environment.

Woman Entrepreneur Ms Roshni Mukherjee : Shaping the Education World

Women and education were totally on different pages a few centuries ago but as time passed women understood the power of education and proved their mettle to the world. Women can change the world with their thoughts and actions and education is a powerful tool for them. And in today’s era, women and education are on the same page, most women now understand the importance of education and are imparting the commitment towards it. We all would agree that ‘an educated woman can shape the world better’. 

 

Steps to preserve Languages in Education System : #EducationForAll #CauseAChatter

A language plays an important role that boasts about the affluent culture, rich heritage, diverse perspective, strong belief, profuse literature, extravagant music, and renounced art of a particular region. Every culture's reflection is the way we use our language. It is important to understand a regional language that generates a sense of great bonding and helps to mould completely. 

Can you imagine the World without Language?

We cannot imagine this world without any language. The medium of communication is very important to know each other and improve our perspective about other regions, and countries therefore, breaking all the social barriers. Thus, a language encases our culture and individuality.

But, it’s a sad truth that most of the languages are losing its ground as it is not practiced either in spoken or written form. When a language is lost, the expressions and values get diminished with it. It’s very important to preserve our language and to emphasize its importance our new education policy is encouraging the use of regional languages in the school curriculum.

New Guidelines for Teachers in NEP 2020 : #EducationForAll #CauseAChatter

New Education Policy has brought in a fresh perspective towards education and also promised large recruitment opportunities for teaching staff. NEP 2020 has the foundation policy of flexibility that gives the educators and students an extensive layout of courses to build their careers in life.

Today in this post of the #EducationForAll series of the #CauseAChatter of Blogchatter we will discuss the opportunities and the guidelines in NEP2020 for teaching staff.

Importance of Vocational Education in India : #EducationForAll #CauseAChatter

Skilled person can make a living on its own, can create new avenues for self and even turn events in a manner that are fruitful in life. Let us see what is skill and how much importance it holds in personal life and how the education sector contributes to skill building. This post is a part of #EducationForAll series, today let’s focus on the importance of Vocational Education and its foundation in our education system of India.

 

Implementation of New Education Policy 2020: #EducationForAll #CauseAChatter

Good news flowing in the education field with Ministry of Human Resources Department, stated New Education Policy of the year 2020. Former ISRO chief Dr. K Kasturirangan headed the nine-member team who written new education policy which also comprised members of MHRD.

 

The country is rejoicing, educators, academicians and students are looking for a positive change in the education system through the new education policy, NEP2020 proposal. Let’s have a look at the benefits of the new education policy and change it can bring in the education field and make India prosperous nation in this sector too.

 

Now many are concerned how NEP 2020 will be implemented and most importantly when NEP 2020 will be implemented. Parents, educators and students started raising their questions as this academic year 2020-2021 is itself a challenge in the education due to Covid 19 pandemic.

 

Solution to Education vs Hunger Pangs : #MidDayMeals #EducationForAll #CauseAChatter

We are going to ponder upon a very important aspect of #EducationForAll series of #CauseAChatter. Let us first read this fiction story titled ‘Difficult Decision’ before we move ahead.

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It was fine sunny morning, and the time when Kriti was sipping a cup of tea, while reading newspaper. She had finished her morning chores, and Kamu her helper was washing utensils, when suddenly she heard; “I want to , I want to Maa”. Kriti folded newspaper and took her cup to walk to backyard where she saw Vishnu crying and pleading to his mother.

“I will go to school today Maa, I can’t be at home.” said Vishnu in a shivering voice.

 

“Why not, I will myself drop you there; you won’t miss the school” replied Kamu with a heavy heart.

“That’s good Kamu, your son is so passionate about the studies, and one day he will become a successful man” Kriti said.  She gave Vishnu a packet of stationery and story book and patted him.

7 reasons to add Moral Education period in Schools : #EducationForAll #CauseAChatter

We have always heard about how education is very important aspect of life. You can refer our previous posts to know how education helps and has importance in us in various walks of life. Knowledge of subjects and its application does complete our education at certain level or is there something else that is being not focussed. Is there an area of development of child that is being completely neglected. Let us say for example a Robotic Engineer will have all the learnings about the design, the AI systems and physics involved in building a robot so, we can say engineer is a well-educated successful person. 

 

But can we also assume that this robotic engineer also has qualities like responsible, sensible, open minded and good human being. No we cannot, for that we also need moral education to be part of our education system.

 

Schools in the rush to complete huge syllabus and focussing on sports and extra co-curricular activities the exclusive moral science period is not added in curriculum. And due to this there are many situations in life where a topper student also fail to understand simple or sometimes misses to understand basic human behavioural traits.

 

3 Pillars for Right Education : #EducationForAll #CauseAChatter

Education comes to us in varying forms and styles for example through formal learnings in class rooms and informal way through experiences of life. The learning curve progresses towards positive scale and allows us the power to judge what is right for us, for our family, for our society we live and our nation. 

Gaining knowledge is not a process that has some specific time frame, it walks with us throughout our life making us little by little educated. The three step process that can clear the haze of understanding the fine line between good and bad is to Accept, Adapt and Reflect. Education gives the power to control all the these.

In the third post in the series #EducationForAll with Blogchatter under #CauseAChatter let us focus on how these 3 steps can make a smooth sail in tough times of life as an individual and as society.