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Rekrit Paper pencils – Upcycling waste paper for the better tomorrow! (Article by: Mr. Chetan Kothavade , Founder; Eco-Trust, Pune)

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  Rekrit Paper pencils – Upcycling waste paper for the better tomorrow! Article written by: Mr. Chetan Kothavade (An Ecopreneur, Eco-Trust, Pune)      Pencil is the most important stationery item which is massively used by school, college students all over the world. And so to fulfill the requirement of the market huge wood is consumed for its production. Nature’s destruction is leading to the global warming and many such horrible impacts.      It is estimated that over 8 million trees are being chopped annually to produce pencils that we use on a daily basis. Over 13 million hectares of forests are lost to deforestation, out of which 36% is for paper manufacturing and 42% is for manufacturing timber-based products that constitutes about 18-20 billion pencils. Moreover, nearly 85 billion tons of paper wastes are generated each year and 40% of them end up in landfills. In addition to landfills, 9 billion used pens are thrown away all over the world annually, accounting to plastic ac
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Rekrit’ Paper pens - Wise Option Against Plastic pens! (Article by: Mr. Chetan Kothavade , Founder; Eco-Trust, Pune)

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Rekrit’ Paper pens - Wise Option Against Plastic pens! Upcycling the Waste Paper for better tomorrow! Article written by: Mr. Chetan Kothavade (An Ecopreneur, Pune) Ball pens are the most important stationery item which is massively used by school, college students all over the world. And so to fulfill the requirement of the market huge plastic is consumed for its production. But these use & throw plastic pens are not recycled & hence worstly increasing the plastic footprint on earth. Let’s have a look on following facts -  Use & throw pens cost are low but it cost higher for Nature! -  There are no organized ways for recycling of plastic pens -  27 lacs Plastic pens are produced per day -  1.6 Billion pens waste are dumped on ground all over the world Plastic takes approx 400 years to decompose. Due to rapidly increasing landfills & littering in water, soil life & sea life both are terribly getting bad impact. 8 million tons plastic thrown in sea
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निर्विघ्नं कुरू मे देव

बाप्पांना देऊन पहिला मान राखुया सारे निसर्ग भान..!! वक्रतुंड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ। निर्विघ्नं कुरू मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा।। आपल्या संस्कृतीतले सर्व उत्सव हे जीवनात उत्साह, आनंद घेऊन येतात, सकारात्मक ऊर्जा , आशादायी विचार घेऊन येतात. त्यापैकीच एक महत्वाचा उत्सव म्हणजे गणेशोत्सव!! आपल्या जीवनातील सर्व कार्य सुरळीत, आणि निर्विघ्न पार पाडावीत, सर्वांच्या जीवनात सुख समृद्धी नांदावी; ह्यासाठी दरवर्षी गणेशोत्सवाच्या निमित्ताने आपण गणपती बाप्पाला प्रार्थना करतो. ह्या उत्सवाच्या परंपरेनुसार आपण १० दिवस बाप्पांचे पूजन करतो आणि अनंत चतुर्दशीला मूर्ती विसर्जन करून ह्या उत्सवाचा समारोप करतो. पण ; ह्या अनंत चतुर्दशीच्या दिवशी होणारे गणपती मूर्तींचे विसर्जन मोठ्या प्रमाणात जल- प्रदूषणाचे कारण ठरत आहे... "निर्विघ्न कुरुमे देव" अशी प्रार्थना ज्या देवाला आपण करतो त्याचाच उत्सव हा आपल्या काही चुकीच्या वर्तणुकिमुळे आपल्याच जीवनात विघ्नाचे कारण ठरावा हे आपल्याला आवडेल का???   POP प्लास्टर ऑफ पॅरिस पासून बनवलेल्या गणेश मूर्ती मध्ये प्लास्टिक आणि सिमेंट च्या मिश्रणाचा वापर केला जातो, त्याम
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