A festival underway in the city to promote an alternative and eco-conscious lifestyle without plastic
A festival underway in the city to promote an alternative and eco-conscious lifestyle without plastic
“Bring your own bags, containers and water bottles,” specified the invitation to a different festival.
The first ‘Zero Waste Festival’, which runs until Sunday in front of Gandhi Thidal, advocates an alternative and ecological lifestyle without plastic in product packaging and where citizens dispose of their garbage.
Organized by the Shilpataru Foundation, an artists’ forum, with the support of other organisations, including the Alliance Francaise, the event has been arranged to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Independence and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sri Aurobindo .
“Our goal is to popularize a litter-free lifestyle and create model cities of Puducherry and Auroville,” said Kirti Chandak, an artist and organizer of the festival, which is supported entirely through volunteerism, donation economy and funding. collective.
The overall goals of the event are to share eco-centric lifestyle solutions, develop eco-friendly packaging alternatives, and support training incubators to inspire do-it-yourself models. It also seeks to guarantee in a decentralized way that citizens assume responsibility for their waste and that nothing goes to landfill.
Other goals are to help eco-entrepreneurs with innovative green solutions to produce products and packaging and to inspire eco-consciousness through education and art.
The advocated lifestyle is one in which each household engages in source segregation, establishes individual or community composting pits, and recycles garbage through improved skills.
The event also features vegetable markets organized by farmers’ collectives, hands-on workshops and talks, as well as side shows ranging from poetry to music and games.
“Its two key goals are to raise awareness of the concept and to provide packaging solutions to growers. Visitors to this event are not just consumers but active participants in a movement,” said S. Srinivas of Shilpataru.
The underlying message is that each and every person can participate in this movement, wherever they are, by living an ecocentric life and not letting their trash go to landfill, which represents the crux of a “zero waste lifestyle”. .
Source: www.thehindu.com