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Food wastage

Every year, one third of all food produced globally goes to waste. This not only affects our wallets but also has a significant impact on our environment. When food waste ends up in landfills, it releases methane gas, which contributes to climate change. We can reduce food waste by buying only what we need, planning our meals, and composting our food scraps. Let's work together to reduce food waste and make a positive impact on our environment. Food waste is a significant problem that affects individuals, businesses, and the environment. According to the United Nations, approximately one-third of all food produced globally goes to waste each year. This equates to 1.3 billion tonnes of food, which is enough to feed three billion people. Food waste has many negative consequences. Firstly, it is a waste of resources. Producing food requires land, water, energy, and other resources. When food is wasted, these resources are also wasted. This is not only bad for the environment but also ...
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Biodegradable v/s Compostable

  Sometimes, we all get confused with these two phrases - Biodegradable & Compostable. Biodegradable materials have the potential to breakdown with the help of the movement of microorganisms including bacteria and fungi, and so on. Bio” which means “life,” “degrade” which means to break down, and “able”   of course meaning that it can happen. Biodegradation is the technique of nature taking its direction and breaking down materials into small parts.  Plastic can breakdown into carbon dioxide, water, and some different matters. Pretty simple, right?The fact is that many of things are biodegradable, if given enough time. Plastics specially are known to take decades or maybe centuries to breakdown naturally, however they will breakdown. So, technically speaking, they're biodegradable. Even diapers, infamous for lasting a long term in landfills, will breakdown ultimately.While a packaging enterprise says that their product is biodegradable, all they sincerely suggest...
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World Environment Day 2020🌱

Plant ~ "Adopt me. They say my parents were killed by something called the development”. Earth is the home different species of flora and fauna. It is vital to understand that by protecting our planet, we are not just protecting other species but also the entire human race.  The Word Environment Day is popularly called "People's Day" to show their care and support for the Earth and their environment. Knowing the ways to protect  the environment is really important. The theme for World Environment Day 2020 is, 'Celebrate Biodiversity'. It makes a speciality of its function in imparting the vital infrastructure that helps existence in the world and also in human development. "With 1 million species facing extinction, there has never been a more important time to spread awareness on biodiversity." Biodiversity is recognized as ecological diversity and contains of various animals, flowers, and other creatures in a specific habitat.  We have to preserve ...
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Save Our Planet

The  Earth is warming at an alarming rate, humans are the cause of it. Also, a failure to act today will deeply affect the future of the Earth. Amid the horror of Covid 19, it is important to remember that another worldwide disaster is unfolding (Climate crisis) , although slowly but gradually everything will turn out against us. Global warming is happening, and its effects are being felt around the world.  If we think that the carbon dioxide & methane already added to the atmosphere ,since past so many years, wouldn't have an impact on Earth due to the lockdown. Then, we are wrong because the lockdown of 3 or 4 months wouldn't have any long lasting impact compared to the sins we have committed in past many years. As of now, the damage seems to be getting worse. The Scientists predicted years ago  - severe storms, heat waves and the melting of glaciers and ice sheets — are accelerating. If we look closer, what’s happening at the top of the world, the Arctic and the bo...
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Earth is healing

Due to the lockdown announced by the government to contain the spread of COVID-19, nature has begun to flourish.  The benefits of this lockdown is in the air quality in most Indian cities. The cities which were known for their bad air quality have reported 'good' air quality index (AQI). Following the 'janata curfew', air pollution levels dropped 60% in Kolkata, 6% in Mumbai, and 26% in Delhi. We all know the crucial role of ozone layer. Besides the drop in pollution levels, the ozone layer also play an important role in maintaining a balance of climatic conditions. Earth has begun to heal with decreased human activities.  The earth has been healing itself while we stay locked down in our houses. There are reports of Ganges water being sparkling clean, the Himalayas being visible from towns in Punjab, ozone layer sealing, air quality index improving significantly, birds singing in our cities, flamingos flocking Mumbai, animals coming out of hiding and roaming on t...
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Lightning causes climate change

“For every two strikes you get today, you’ll get three strikes at the end of the century,” Lightning has a few less well-known effects. For example, lightning is a major natural cause of wildfires .  It can lead to the formation of ozone. This greenhouse gas traps heat in the atmosphere. So, this has some negative effects in the troposphere is contrary to the beneficial role it plays when formed in the stratosphere, where it shields the Earth from harmful UV radiation from the sun  Global warming could have an electrifying effect. Rising temperatures may increase lightning strikes by 50 %over the next 100 years. Hence, more lightning would cause more warming — that would cause still more lightning, which would boost warming even more.     Climate change will lead to: • Increased moisture in the warmer atmosphere.  • Increased intensity  of the storm. Also the small aerosol particles in the air, such as those in smoke from wildfires or cars , ca...
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Plastic monster

PLASTIC ~ THE REAL MONSTER Plastic floats. This is where our story begins. Plastic monsters came to life around the world, rising up from dirty landfills, climbing over piles of trash & even swimming up and out of seas, lakes, rivers & oceans to make a very long and sometimes arduous journeys back home to their source. This plastic monsters may not be real, but this represent a very serious crisis: the plastic monster is a reality which actually portraits the world’s plastic waste.    Microplastics are very small portions of plastic that pollute the environment. Microplastics are not a selected type of plastic, but as a substitute any sort of plastic fragment that is much less than 5 mm in length. They enter natural ecosystems from an expansion of sources, such as cosmetics, apparel, and industrial procedures.   Classifications of microplastics currently exist. Primary microplastics are any plastic fragments or debris which might be already 5 mm in size or...
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Bhutan tourism -GNH (Gross National Happiness)

Tourism in Bhutan ~ "Bhutan puts ecology before the economy." Bhutan  follows ‘high value-low impact’ tourism whichis  based on its unique Gross National Happiness (GNH) policy. It is based on 4 principles :- 1.Sustainable development 2. Environmental conservation 3.Preservation & promotion of cultural values 4. Good governance. The international & local visitors will  pay an extra dollar for this attractive tourist's destination. Futher, this extra dollar can go into restoration, conservation & well-being of the local biodiversity. Quality-of-life signs may encompass years of healthy existence, get admission to to way of life (e.G. Track, literature, arts) and education; networks of social connections and mutual consider; get admission to to smooth air, water, nature and lifestyles sustaining surroundings services; and the homes and infrastructure that offer us with refuge, transportation, gathering locations, and human-produced means of production; in addit...
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Key role a Leaf plays in our lives

What a difference a leaf makes! Well, not one leaf. We have 3.04 trillion trees on our planet—that’s 400 trees per person. If we count all the leaves on all those trees and take a look at what they do collectively to the air around us, is stunning. We know they absorb air. Their leaves gobble carbon dioxide, and then, with help from the sun, the carbon stays in the tree. Oxygen gets released. Come winter, the leaves fall off, trees go bare. Without leaves, trees go quiet. Any extra CO2 is more likely to hang in the atmosphere—until June. That’s the month when trillions upon trillions of leaves are opening, growing, & starting to breathe and  their collective breath literally cleaning the sky. It’s like the world’s northern forests become a giant vacuum cleaner, scouring the air, sucking down the CO2 till around November. When leaves fall, the situation reverses … and it feels a little scary It tracks the flow of carbon dioxide across the planet over 12 months, starting in Ja...
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Bio-degradable pads

**The content below is not just for girls out there but for every person who feels the concern for the environment.** Everyone of us is aware of mensuration days in a female's life. Numerous types of sanitary pads has been introduced for their sanitation. As per research, a female uses 17000 pads approximately in her life. Now, just assume if a single pad takes 500 years to decompose then, how much time these 17000 pads are going to take. With only 16% of Indian women using sanitary pads today, ladies in India currently generate a 100,000+ heaps of sanitary pads waste every 12 months. As sanitary pad usage will increase, waste will further add up!  This also means that  the sanitary pads we toss inside the bin every month will hang around even when you and I are long gone. The sad news is that those grimy pads are not being recycled. These are simply disposed off into the garbage.The blood on the pads can accumulate pathogens and this can additionally infect the soil. In India...
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