No page is left blank

A pleasing oath "NO PAGE IS LEFT BLANK" !
It's a common thing to notice everywhere that once the term end (final exam) gets over, most of the students just throw their notebook or they leave them for kabbadiwalas without separating the blank pages. The no. of blank pages is not just 10-15; it's much more than this. Sometimes, just name is written on the cover page & its over after the term end. It sounds we don't care for these small things. Even if we can get new notebooks easily, we should not ignore the fact that trees are cut to obtain a paper. Nature is godly. We should make judicious use of the available resources. We need to value them..... Reuse should be followed by Recycling.  If we can reuse, we should reuse !
Lets take the oath "NO PAGE IS LEFT BLANK" ! 
Use even one sided printed question papers, applications, posters or any piece of paper you find is blank. 

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ECO-FRIENDLY WINE/BEER

Making Wine/Beer Eco-Friendly

       problems associated:

• Wine and other alcoholic drink bottle use quite thick glass.The glass make approx 40% of the total weight of the full bottle.Thus the tare weight of a full wine bottle is comparatively high to its gross weight.This increased weight causes increase in transportation cost and so the carbon footprints.These bottle creates a huge sum of glass wastes which is recycled or send to sanitary landfills.
• Wine and beer bottle seals age often coated by capsule(which is made of Lead).It may contaminate the drink while opening the seal/cork. The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution recommended to prepare report on Lead in alcoholic beverages.It was found that about 90% of the canned and bottle beers contain less than or equal to 10 micrograms /ltr of lead,where as half the draught beers samples contained greater than10 micrograms/ltr.It is concluded that consumption of beer containing 50 microgram/ltr. lead could significantly increase blood lead level.                  [ref.:Lead in alcoholic beverages.Sherlock JC, Pickford CJ, White GF.]                                                                                                                  
• Alochol industry generated waste water increases the BOD of the water bodies.Other environment related problems include High Carbon emission and solid waste generation.                                                                                                                                                                                               Sollutions suggested:

1. wine should be exported in bulk from the production farms and canned/bottled close to the market.

         It will reduce the transportation cost and so the carbon footprints.

         Also the local bottle making and recycling market will have positive influence.

    2.  Box-wine is other choice in packeging. It is more eco-friendly than the bottle wine     

         but the wine can be stored for limited time(~12 months).

    

    3. Tetra-Pack is yet another option.It is being used widely due to its several 

         usefulness.

        

    4.Using capsule (foil) made up of some safe material eg.aluminium,plastic etc.

By: OPSSEN