• Sapna Yadav
• Jaya Singh
• Annika Durve Gupta

Worship is an integral part of human life and floral offerings along with fruits, sugar, jaggery, milk and milk products, are an integral part of worship. Large quantities of flowers are used for worship in India every day. Unfortunately, when the flowers dry or decay, disposal of these once beautiful offerings become an issue. These are now considered waste material and are dumped in landfills or are released in water bodies. This may lead to severe environmental pollution and health hazards. In the present study, temple waste collected from various temples in Kalyan area. The waste was segregated according to flowers waste and others. Flower petals extract was used for preparation of microbiological media for cultivation of common laboratory microorganisms. The dye potential of the colorants obtained from the marigold was evaluated by colouring pure cotton fabrics. Various metals salts were used as mordant to set extracted dye onto the cotton fabrics. Cellulose is the major abundant renewable polymer in the world, not only found in the cell wall, but it can also be synthesized by some bacteria and animals. Cellulose fibres were extracted from coconut coir. The coconut shell was used to make carbon particles. The efficiency of dye degradation by marigold petals and coconut carbon particles was determined. Hence, these waste flower and other temple waste have an enormous, and largely unexploited, potential of being turned into wealth using existing, simple and inexpensive technologies.

Utilization of Temple Waste for Various Purposes

"Utilization of Temple Waste for Various Purposes", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.167-173, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCB06026.pdf

"Utilization of Temple Waste for Various Purposes", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp167-173, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCB06026.pdf