By Newsroom | India's Supreme Court banned standard fire crackers in 2018 and allowed the use of only green crackers to control air pollution. Well - what are green crackers, how are they different and how are they identified?
Standard fire crackers contain harmful chemicals - such as arsenic, lithium and barium. These are not used in green crackers - instead, they are manufactured with less polluting materials like, potassium nitrate and aluminium.
The aluminium, lead and carbon, also help reduce emissions, while they are set off. Green crackers release water vapour, which does not kick up dust and prevents air pollution.
Green crackers also produce much less noise. When compared - a standard cracker emits about 160 decibels - while the green category produces between 110 to 125 decibels.
Obviously - the green is priced higher than the standard cracker, because of the benefits that come with it.
In India, the green crackers are developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute since 2019.
Green crackers are identified by their QR code, and the green logo of the manufacturer on the packaging.
Sivakasi in the southern Tamil Nadu state is India's cracker hub - contributing 70 percent of the country's supplies. During the festival of Diwali, one of India's biggest - supplies from Sivakasi surge to 90 percent - according to some reports. It is believed, there are more than one thousand cracker factories of different sizes in the town - which are a means of livelihood for thousands of families.
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