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Clean Water, Air & Land
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Eco-friendly Incense sticks Nirmalya are manufactured from the floral disposals or floral waste procured from places of worship by employing and training women from a low-income background.The incense sticks manufactured in this way are eco-friendly and as a result are not harmful to humans.
Nirmalya incense stick by Green Wave addresses the issue of improper disposal of flower waste through recycling of flower waste from places of worship. Flowers are considered as holy entities and hence are offered by pilgrims to their gods and goddesses. Every day these flowers offered by the devotees in places of worship are left unused and therefore become waste. This flower waste gets accumulated at worship places due to a number of religious practices. Because of the various religious and social beliefs devotees as well as places of worship authorities avoid throwing flowers and other items which are used for prayers in the garbage or use the conventional waste disposal practices like municipal system as this would end up these flowers in the landfills and instead put them in the plastic bags and throw them directly in the water bodies, apart from this; it is also thrown near sacred trees with no suitable mode of disposal. Every year approximately 80,00,000 tons of waste flowers are dumped in the rivers choking them to death, such disposal of waste creates problems like eel and worm development, water pollution, foul odour, land pollution; moreover it is not good aesthetically.
The incense sticks made by the current manufacturing chains use the coal as raw material for the carbon content which is required for burning. Coal has carbon in its ground state and the organic matter in the dried flowers has Carbon in the +3 oxidation state. For burning, the oxidation state is to be changed to +4, which is easier and requires less energy in the organic case of flowers. Also, the emission of carbon dioxide from the burning of incense sticks is reduced to a great extent due to this change in the raw material, making the product more energy efficient.
Replacing Coal with the flower waste acts as potential waste management solution to the flower waste, it is more energy efficient and generates lesser carbon emissions.
Waste-to-value innovation of Green Wave generates high-value products, minimize landfill pressures,and provide employment opportunities for low-income women
Recycling of flowers at source of generation if available in huge quantities will be more cost-efficient than conventional recycling models or methods
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