“Bring your possess luggage, containers and drinking water bottles”, specified the invite to a competition with a change.

The 1st ‘Zero Squander Festival’, that is below way till Sunday opposite the Gandhi Thidal is advocating an alternate and eco-conscious way of life devoid of plastic in product or service packaging and wherever citizens self-dispose of their garbage.

Hosted by Shilpataru Foundation, a forum of artists, with assist from other organisations such as Alliance Francaise, the occasion has been place up to coincide with the 75th Independence anniversary and the 150th start anniversary of Sri Aurobindo.

“We intention to popularise a way of living free of charge of rubbish and to make model towns of Puducherry and Auroville,” stated Kirti Chandak, artist and convenor of the festival which is entirely being supported by volunteering, gift-economy and crowd-funding.

The broad aims of the function are to share ecocentric way of life solutions, evolve eco-helpful packaging solutions and assist upskilling incubators to inspire ‘do-it-yourself’ designs. It also seeks to make sure in a decentralised way that citizens think obligation for their waste and that absolutely nothing goes to the landfill.

Supporting eco-preneurs with progressive eco-welcoming options for creating solutions and packaging and inspiring eco-consciousness by training and artwork are the other goals.

The advocated way of life is a single wherever each individual domestic engages in source segregation, create personal or group composting pits and upcycles litter by upskilling.

The party also characteristics vegetable markets hosted by farmers’ collectives, hands-on workshops and talks moreover facet-reveals ranging from poetry, to songs and games.

“Their two key aims are to elevate awareness on the concept and to offer packaging answers to producers. Guests to this event are not just customers but active participants in a movement,” explained S. Srinivas, of Shilpataru.

The fundamental concept is that just about every and…