Ways to Celebrate Green Diwali
Green or Eco-friendly Diwali is a way of celebrating the festival of lights by ensuring minimum damage to the environment.
Green crackers are eco-friendly crackers and safe for the environment. The fumes from firecrackers may have a harmful affect.
Let’s use natural colours & ingredients like rice powder, cloves/ cinnamon(brown), turmeric or haldi (yellow), etc. for decoration. Simple Flowers are the best option for ‘go green diwali’ as they are safe for the environment and bio-degradable.
Say no to plastic wrappers for gifts and decorations. Use bio-degradable bags which are completely compostable. Avoid purchasing products in plastic pouches or plastic wraps and insist on biodegradable and recyclable packaging materials. Many alternative packaging materials are available today with the same qualities as plastic but are much less harmful to the environment.
Home decoration is a vital part of the entire Diwali celebration. People decorate their homes with fancy lights, and lamps that consume electricity. If you are looking for ways how to celebrate eco-friendly Diwali, you can improvise your decoration by opting for solar decoration lights available in the market. If you are using lights, make sure they are LED
Celebrate eco-friendly & pollution free Diwali with clay diyas or earthen lamps which consume oil for producing light and are easily available in the market
Though the market is filled with a range of tempting, delicious, and countless sweet options, mostly these sweets carry artificial colours & high sugar content. So, this year, celebrate green Diwali with homemade sweets. This will save you from swallowing artificial colours and keep track of your weight. You can use products like milk, jaggery, coconut, and dry fruits to make your sweets nutritious & yummy.
Diwali is a festival that brings love, and affection among people. People welcome their friends and family to their homes and offer food, sweets & beverages to have fun together. Here, serving & distributing food in compostable tableware is one of the easiest & unique ways to exchange eco-friendly Diwali messages.
Ways to celebrate safe Diwali
It is advisable to follow a few safety measures to ensure a safe and joyous Festival of Lights for you and your loved ones.
Make sure everyone in the family – kids and adults both – wear cotton clothes while playing with fireworks. Synthetic fabrics catch fire very easily.
Make sure your children’s arms and legs are covered in well fitted clothes. Fire catches easily on flowing, trailing garments. For the girls, make sure the dupatta is pinned back properly.
Purchase greencrackers only from legal manufacturers and make sure to read the instructions before using them. Good quality greencrackers reduce the risk of mishaps.
Make sure you have the emergency numbers noted down – numbers of doctors, fire station, police station, etc in case of any emergency.
Most important safety tip is keeping a first aid kit handy for emergency purpose.
Keep a fire extinguisher nearby while bursting firecrackers. A bucket of water or sand can also come handy in tackling a minor fire mishap.
Discard the used firecrackers with care. You can either put them in a bucket of water or cover them with some sand to dissipate the heat.