Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Environmental Friendly.........!!!!!



As I was driving down Gauhati the other day, I saw a man selling these leaves. In fact am seeing some one selling them after quite a while. These are a type of leaves that are used to pack all types of things except of course liquid......starting from non veg items to veg to everything. Yes, you can pack your lunch too. They are specially grown and cultivated for this purpose....( I really don't know if it has any other use ) but with the invasion of plastic bags in the recent years, these leaves had lost its market. Everyone else opted for the more easier and cheaper option......till the environmental conscious people here realized how harmful plastics are for the environment.......they are now helping these villagers promote their products again. It works out a little costly but then all good things come with a price I suppose.

10 comments:

Kavita Saharia said...

Very nice post Nitu..i sincerely wish that we realize in time the dangers of using plastic and take necessary steps.

sujata sengupta said...

wow thats a great option, needs a bit of clever marketing though and we could have the next new innovation!! lovely post

R. Ramesh said...

excellent photos yar...gr8 click..and the post was very interesting..

Great Grandma Lin said...

great idea...we need to start somewhere.

Anonymous said...

interesting !!!!

Cheryl said...

How very interesting! Anything to help the environment has my vote!

Urmi said...

Very nice and interesting post and the photos are very beautiful.

Onkar said...

Very informative post.

Anonymous said...

could tell me the name of these leaves, if you've the scientific names the better, thanks

Chris said...

That's a really cool idea, I've never heard of this.

I am starting to see a lot of cloth bags where I live. It's good to see a lot of people becoming aware of the harm plastic baggies can cause on the environment.