Shadow Correspondent
jammu, Apr, 03
A awareness programme organized by Jammu Municipal Corporation regarding waste flower management in collaboration with management of Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir, Gandhi Nagar and prominent persons of the locality.
The present work deals with collection, handling, utilization and management of the waste flowers that are coming out of the Temples in Jammu and surroundings. An attempt has been made to provide a solution to current situation and complete analysis of Temple waste flowers with formation of compost. Worshiping is the way of living and people offer various offerings to the duties which mainly consists of flowers, leaves, fruits, coconuts, clothes, etc. and out of which flower offerings are found in the huge quantity.
India’s many places of worships generate close to 20 lacs tones of flowers waste daily. Much of it ends up in land fills where it doesn’t decompose as it would naturally because it mixed with other non biogradable waste.
Religious sites around Jammu are looking for ways to reuse or recycle floral waste and Jammu Municipal Corporation started to collect floral waste from the step of Mandirs and to carry up to Bhagwati Nagar to prepare compost at JMC Centre. Most of the Temples used to dump their flower waste in nearby water bodies or leave it in plastic bags under trees. Dumping flowers in the water is not a good solution. Floral waste uses the dissolved oxygen in rivers and lakes to decompose. This causes oxygen deficiency for marine life.
All the prominent persons and senior citizens and Mandir committee stepped for cleanliness drive from Laxmi Narayan Mandir Gandhi Nagar, Jammu.
