Ecosmic

   Do you know? What is the second most littered item on the street? CHEWING GUMS  Chewing Gum is the second most littered item on the street. Do you know Chewing gum, which keeps our mouth minty and fresh, is made up of Synthetic plastic. Chewing gum, which actually makes us cool, is made up of synthetic plastic. Previously it was not like this chewing gums were made up of tree resin. But to circulate chewing gum commercially, and to keep the prices low, companies started mixing polymer. Anything that generates 1 lakh tonnes of waste, can’t be good for the environment. Right?  After we eat a chewing gum we throw it somewhere or stick it somewhere. Actually, for decomposition of chewing gum, it takes 50-500 years.the 1st chewing gum we chewed is still lying around somewhere. And affecting the environment. The chewing gum which is not thrown in the dustbins,travels through water sources collecting toxins and reaches the water bodies. And fishes consume it thinking it’...

La Niña is a climate pattern that describes the cooling of surface ocean waters along the tropical west coast of South America. La Nina is considered to be the counterpart to El Nino, which is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean. I could not collect more info about La Nina. If, anyone of you knows about it please let me know in the comment section.  I am linking a video below please watch it for more information:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIJBtdagj2E&t=65s Wish you a Happy Diwali to all of you

 Hey all,              How are guys doing? Hope you are to be fine. So, today I will share a small fact rather than a solutions for a problems. So, recently I read a article which said that "India to witness coldest winters ever from December to February due to 'La Nina' " Some experts say that this is because of global warming. Not only Winters but even Summers are getting hotter these days.  So what we can do the solution is going to be released this week.  Stay tuned, follow for more updates.  Spoiler:- The next post is goning to be about 'La Nina' Thank You! Your Varshitha.

  Diwali is a festival which is also called the festival of lights. That’s why on diwali every house is decorated with lights. According to reports the day after diwali more than 800 tonnes of plastic waste is collected. The major reason is gifts and sweets. Obviously we can’t stop giving gifts because this is an important part of the celebration.  We can give plants which purify the air in the environment.  Snake plant  Peace lily  Areca palm Aloe vera Money plant These are the alternatives try out them. Thank you, Your Varshitha.

Period, this word might be uncomfortable to hear for some people but it is high to normalize it. A girl in one lifetime, generates 125 kgs of waste of sanitary napkins. And 121 million females in India use sanitary napkins.  Sanitary napkins take 500-800 years to decompose.  The solution for this is Menstrual cups. These are low cost and can be used upto 10-12 years. We spend about 12,000 on sanitary napkins. It's time to get changed. So, we women ♀ can shift from sanitary pads to menstrual cups! Thank you!

  So, from day to night, in our daily routine, knowingly or unknowingly we generate waste.  Be it from a plastic toothbrush, body wash or shampoo, or by anything we buy from the market. According to reports A person generates 2kg of waste per day. 2kg*365=730kg per year. Just multiply this with the world population. We produce 5,705,955,056,700 kg of waste.  Solution:- Bamboo toothbrush  Homemade toothpaste One natural soap Coconut oil as moisturiser Homemade shampoo Cloth Bag Package free/ loose products Eco bricks  Natural cleaners Composting Carry own water bottle, cutlery for street food. These are few steps to get rid of plastic waste and other types of waste in oour day to day life. By the way I am trying but not working. If you are intrested please follow the above steps. @happytuesday..

   In a year around 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are dumped in a year. Making it the most littered item on the earth. A single cigarette butt takes over 10 years to decompose completely. This problem was observed by Naman Gupta and she solved it. He made mosquito repellents and some useful and attractive pillows out of the fiber inside that.

  Is glass a better alternative to plastic? Let's find it out! Comparison Plastic  Glass  Raw material  Plastic is a petroleum based material.which is made of crude oil,gas and chemicals. Glas is a material which can be made from bio available resources. Like sand,soda ash and limestone.  Recycling Plastic is a material whose quality deteriorates by recycling. Glass is 100% recyclable. Which means it can be recycled numerous times without any quality loss. Cheaper  Plastic can be moulded into any shape while using less energy. To make glass products,it costs more as it requires a lot of heat to shape it. Impact on health  Harmful chemicals are leached from plastic which get transferred into food which impacts our health negatively.   Glass is such a material through which no harmful chemicals are leached. Durability  Plastic is more durable. Glass breaks easily. Impact on environment  Plastic’s quality gets worse due to which recycl...

If I say each and every mail is polluting the environment. What would be your reaction? Do you know where your emails are even stored? In different corners of the world they are saved in servers. And to run these servers a lot of electricity is needed. And even today most of it is generated from fossil fuels. Which is leading to extreme air pollution. So directly or indirectly,emails generate co2 which is harming the environment. According to studies, one spam message produces 0.3 grams of co2. Normal email 4 grams and attachment emails generate around 50 grams of co2.Around 60 billion spam emails are sent in one day. Which means 18,00,000 kgs of co2.  What can we do?  Delete useless mails. Delete your spam. Unsubscribe unwanted emails. Turn off social media mail notifications Clean your trash bins. Clean your inbox whenever possible.

  Hello all,                 Hope you all are enjoying your weekend. I wanted to share what actually made me start this blog @ecosmic.  According to a report by NASA almost 12 cities in India are going to sink in the next 80 years. It's because of Global Warming. Due to more pollution the glaciers are rapidly melting and according to FORBES report almost 1 feet of the sea level has increased from the year 1901 to 2018. This did not happen in the last 3000 thousand years.And there are even some reports saying that we are the last generation to save India from sinking and planet earth from  destroying. The only thing we can do is to aware people and find solutions for this problem. It's late but let's start to save our India as well as our earth. ~Varshitha

   Masala tea, green tea , lemon tea or be it anything,as soon as we wake up,we need our cup of tea. Normally, we make tea from loose leaves.But for convenience’s sake big companies started selling tea in teabags. We just have to dip it in hot water or milk and our tea is ready. The problem is in the teabags itself. At a glance  Many people use tea bags. Tea bags are often used in what seems like a paper bag but to keep the seal and shape of teabags intact in hot water some brands are mixing polypropylene in it, which is a type of plastic. When this teabag gets mixed with hot water,billions of microplastic get released in the tea. According to recent research  In Canada's McGill University one tea bag can release 11.6 billion microplastics.Microplastics are plastics which are smaller than 5mm are called microplastic.So basically, we are eating plastic! Solution:- we can use a tea infunser which starts from a price of 150/-

  In the last post we got to know about the importance of segregation of waste i.e Bio-degradable and Non-Biodegrable waste! In today's blog you are gonna find the way to decompose bio-degrable waste. What do you do with your kitchen waste? Our kitchen generates a lot of waste throughout the day.Whether it be vegetable peel,leftover food or rotten vegetables. All of this waste goes into the dustbin. But what if all this waste is used to make something productive? #Compost The same compost which we buy from the market with money to keep our plants nourished. What if we make the same compost at home? Almost 60% of waste in a day that we generate comes from our kitchen. The waste gets mixed and gets collected in landfills and methane gas gets released which is a greenhouse gas.and this directly or indirectly pollutes our soil ,air, water. So basically we’re polluting earth with something that is used to heal earth. How do we make compost? Things you would need to make compos...

  Do you know the importance of segregation waste? I  think everyone knows. We all need to separate biodegradable materials and non-biodegradable materials. This might help a lot of waste to stop going to landfills. Biodegradable materials like vegetable peels, plant waste , fruits etc... can be turned in to compost rather than reaching them to landfills. According to a report, India will increase its waste from 62 million tons to about 165 tons by 2030. If this happens India will need a landfill as big as bangalore. So try to seperate Bio-degradable and Non-Biodegradable waste seperately! image credits:-Google.