Wedding and Party's - are fun!
A wedding, a birthday party, a family get-together, a naming ceremony - these are such highly energetic and positive events that make us all so happy, so cherished and so loved.
We are welcomed by welcome drink (DC1), and then there is chitter-chatting with our friends, whom we would have met after a long time and all happily walk into the dining hall.
We take the soup with spoon (DC2,DC3) , head to the plates (DC4), pickup all our favorite in the menu, pick a spoon (DC5) and find a seating area, happily talk around and hog on the yummy delicacies, pick up some water if required (DC6) and move to the Dessert section.. May be ice cream or Jamoon or Cake, put it in a bowl or a plate (DC7) and peth khush! (stomach is happy) and again head for tea/coffee (DC8) after sometime..
But what does it end up with?
Wondering what are these DC#'s doing in between? It is the "Disposable Container/Spoons (usually plastic or thermocol or paper cups)", which we comfortably ignored and carried on, probably took more than 1 whenever required.
So, on an average an individual uses "minimum" of 8 types of disposables per event.
Think of multiplying that with the number of people in a family (say a family of 4) = 32 disposables per family.
If the number of guests are about 200, the quantity is 1600 disposables.
If about 400 guests -> 3200 disposables!
If about 1000 guests -> 8000 disposables! and we can keep going...
Do we even realize what are we doing??!
Where would all these disposables end up? All the plastic disposable containers again in the landfills, all this junk we used for just for about an hour or two of it's purpose?
Here are some real time pictures of after-event...
This is just one such event...u can imagine many such on the same day!
(Pic credits : Vani Murthy)
And did you think that Paper Cups were eco friendly?
See what we found when we tried composting a paper cup! It has a thin layer of plastic within.
(Pic credits : Vani Murthy)
Gifting
And not to forget the gift wraps, the flower bouquets... dont you think it is such a waste to wrap it first, to be unwrapped and thrown away in moments? Use paper wraps if you really really want to. Do not opt for the shiny and the plastic ones.
Replace bouquets (they are just beautiful dead flowers right?) with real and alive plants as gifts! U would be gifting them multiple roses for lifetime than just few, which would be alive just for a few days.
(Pic credits : Vani Murthy)
What to do? How can I have an eco friendly party?
My friend Shyamala Suresh has written excellent articles on how to make a get-together to be an eco friendly one:
Have a look and leave your comments on what you think, if that is difficult to be achieved!
an enlightening post !
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