GREEN INDIA

REDUCE•Buy products with minimal packaging and recycle any packaging where possible.

•Bulk-buy products with a long shelf-life.

•Avoid individually wrapped items.

•Choose the concentrated or refillable form of products like juices and cleaning products.

•Use a basket, backpack, box or reusable shopping bag instead of plastic bags. Keep them handy in the boot of your car.

REUSE

•Reuse your plastic bags and look for products that can be reused many times

•Choose durable and reusable items rather than disposable ones

•Carry your own water bottle or reuse water bottles.

RECYCLE•A good recycler both ensures they recycle goods and also considers what they buy and whether the products have recycling capabilities.

•Buy products made from recycled materials or with recyclable or reusable packaging. Plastic packaging that is marked code 1, 2 or 3 is commonly recycled in most municipalities; several councils now also accept codes 4-7 (check with your local council )

•Avoid packaging made of more than one material that can't be separated or put in your waste recycling bin, e.g. plastic laminate on paper.  

The National Mission for a Green India

•The National Mission for a Green India is one of the eight Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). •The Mission recognizes that climate change phenomena will seriously affect and alter the distribution, type and quality of natural resources of the country and the associated livelihoods of the people.

• GIM acknowledges the influences that the forestry sector has on environmental amelioration through climate mitigation, food security, water security, biodiversity conservation and livelihood security of forest dependent communities.

Key innovations

1.Focus on quality of forests

2.Focus on ecosystem services

3. Focus on democratic decentralization

4.Creating a new cadre of Community Youth as Foresters

5.Adoption of Landscape-based Approach

6.Reform Agenda as conditionality