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How to make your diwali eco-friendly

November 1, 2008

Is upcoming diwali festival leaving you with innumerable unanswered questions like how to celebrate diwali in an eco-friendly manner as whole world is looking for greener alternatives? Certainly the emission of harmful toxins due to cracker bursting on diwali is harmful to everyone on the planet in every way. So here are some ways that can help you to make this diwali more greener and friendlier in various ways.

Combining diwali festival with lights and sounds is just the story of previous times. Why do you restrict your thinking to cracker burning and light only? Explore more innovative ideas! Go for some colorful ways. Instead of using artificial colors, use natural dyes and bio-degradable ingredients while making rangoli. You can even make use of colorful homely pulses, turmeric dyed rice and flowers too instead of those artificial colors which are made up of azo dyes. Do you know that earlier, rangoli was a means to feed birds? Why don’t you also make use of this retrospective step and follow your roots.

Always keep in mind that diwali is a festival of lights than a festival of sounds emitting from the bursting from harmful crackers. Work on various ways to enhance the ambience and aesthetics of the surrounding environment you live in rather than in deleting it. Make sure that cacophony should be avoided at any cost. But still if you are too fond of crackers, go for eco-friendly ones. This is because such crackers sans carbon emitting compounds and rely only on the simple process of combustion. These crackers only contain paper pieces as raw materials instead of those other harmful toxins and chemicals.

So don’t wait anymore, follow the above ways for celebrating diwali in a greener and eco-friendly way with your family and loved ones.


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