Press Release Summary = In India huge amount of flowers are cultivated & West Bengal
is the 4th position to cultivate flowers after Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka &
Tamilnadu. A survey report reveals that 40% of the total productions of flowers are
unsold and wasted everyday which are thrown in water of river Ganga or any other
places which also creates water pollution as well as environmental pollution. These
wasted flowers can be used in various ways & we can get wealth from waste materials.
Press Release Body = In India huge amount of flowers are cultivated & West Bengal is
the 4th position to cultivate flowers after Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka & Tamilnadu. A
survey report reveals that 40% of the total productions of flowers are unsold and
wasted everyday which are thrown in water of river Ganga or any other places which
also creates water pollution as well as environmental pollution. These wasted
flowers can be used in various ways & we can get wealth from waste materials.
The various uses of these wasted flowers are:
a. Extraction of colourful dyes from these flowers and use it in textile Industry
for dyeing purpose.
b. These colourful dye are used to making Herbal Abiir.
c. The residual waste portion can be used as fertilizers.
Colouful dye can be extracted from flowers which can be used for dyeing textile
fibre, these flower dye are eco-friendly & it has no allergic action on skin like
synthetic dye. Moreover the procedure is very cost-effective and depending on it
small scale Industry as well as Large scale Industry can be set up. The laboratory &
pilot plant work & is going on at Chemical Engineering department, Jadavpur
University with collaboration with Moromi, a NGO of West Bengal. Beside this these
colour can be used to making colourful herbal abiir which has no side effect on
skin.
2012
