Monday, March 9, 2020

DON'T PUT ALL EGGS IN ONE BASKET? THEN TELL ME WHAT AM I MADE OF- VI?!


Before we try to guess what the egg basket is made of, let us acknowledge the ingenuity and creative efforts of Smt. Bharti Gupta, Smt. Sharmila Sen, Mr. Abhinav Gupta, Ms. Radhika Rao, and Ms.Joshika Gupta!

You must have guessed most of the materials used in making the egg basket. Let me tell you, all the materials are waste materials except a few:

  1. Single-use plastic egg case in which eggs are sold in departmental stores and supermarkets (The egg vendors and shops selling eggs pack and sell the eggs in plastic carry-bags and 
  2. Discarded pieces of cloth retrieved from a tailoring shop
  3. Plastic bubble-packing sheet that was in a parcel we received 
  4. Fevicol
  5. Velcro tape
  6. Thread/Wool twine handles of plastic carry bags of  India Gate Basmati Rice
  7. Two-inch wide Cello-tap
  8. Oil Paint
  9. Oil paint thinner'
  10. Deccan Herald newspaper pulp
  11. Ceramic powder
  12. Varnish
  13. Water
The tools we used:
  1. Measuring tape
  2. Scissors
  3. Spatula and spoon
  4. Needle and thread
  5. Marker pens
  6. Mixing bowl
  7. Paintbrush
We mostly used packaging materials that are for single-use and sad enough encourages us to throw them away once we have retrieved the wares packed in them. Do we ever think about how all that we dump in the form of garbage are we also not responsible for the garbage and its recycling? 
Our human concept of garbage is for anything that is no longer useful for us. 
We ignore the fact that the Earth's environment has a natural recycling process in which nothing is a waste and nothing gets wasted except for human-made(if not man-made) tangible products that we usually produce challenging Nature and its ecological balance. Therefore, the Earth;'s natural recycling process is unable to effectively recycle tangible products made from fossil fuels and their by-products. We ignore this fact and insist on using single-use plastic for short-term gains called "Cost-Effective". We eventually miss out on its adverse effect on the Earth's eco-system. 
We have two main problems to take care of:
A. Human Population
B. Garbage and Waste
Both are equally responsible for the negative impact on the Earth's environment in the form of #climatechange and #gobalwarming

Manufacturers and consumers cannot indulge in a blame game for garbage and waste. Both are equally responsible and we need to change our habit and focus on innovating more sustainable methods of product manufacturing and packaging resulting in minimum waste and garbage. 
So, as consumers, we thought, discussed, and devised a way to use the single-use plastic packaging to make a sustainable egg-box that is carefully lined up with cloth and bubble wrap to diffuse the impact of any accidental action viz. push, drop, or falling of the basket from our hands. The packing keeps the eggs safe.  

If you don't believe it then view this video:



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