What Happens To Used Flowers In Temples?

A start-up in Kanpur has found a way to reuse flowers discarded by temples.

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00:00Every year, we Indians put in about 8 million tonnes of flowers in the Ganges.

00:22All the pesticides and insecticides that were used to grow these flowers mixes with the

00:26river water, making it highly toxic, which is one of the leading causes of Hepatitis

00:31Cholera across India and Bangladesh, affecting lives of more than 420 million people.

00:36Ultimately, these pesticides mix with the groundwater, causing irreversible damage.

01:26We came up with a unique packaging, where we infused the packaging material with seeds.

01:52For example, Tulsi seeds or Holi basil.

01:55So the concept was, once you've used this product, simply sow the packaging and a Tulsi

01:59plant would grow out of it.