Role of Philatelist in our Environment!!!

Philately, the king of hobbies, involves paper, paper and more paper.  We cut one tree for every 10000 to 15000 sheets of paper and more than 2.5 million trees are cut down every day to make paper.  35% of the total trees cut around the world are used in paper industries.  Paper is used on a very large scale and we need more for the future generations also.

So how can we, as philatelists help to save trees?

We can use recycled/up-cycled papers to send letters and stamps can be printed with recycled papers like the below one.

2017, Environment Day stamp made of recycled paper from Turkey

With the onset of a new year, the calendars adorning our walls are replaced with  new ones. Instead of throwing the old calendars, we can make up-cycled covers with them.  Below are some covers I got from my friends. We can take out the stamps the same way how we remove them from the  virgin covers or we can keep these covers as such in the exhibits to add more colour to it.  Lets turn our hobby environment friendly.

I have posted "How to make an envelope" at,
http://philateli.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-to-make-envelope-easy-way.html

If any body interested in exchanging up-cycled envelopes please contact me at,

priyakothai[at]yahoo[dot]com

How to make an envelope - Easy way

Here I am sharing with you all how to make an envelope in an easy way.  After all Philately is our hobby, We can't spend too much of time for preparing an envelope.  Here are the steps.

STEP 1: Keep the square paper in a diamond shape.

STEP 2: Fold the paper such that the bottom corner aligns with the top corner.

STEP 3: Unfold it and then fold it sideways such that the left corner aligns with the right corner.

STEP 4: Now, fold the bottom corner till the centre of the paper.

                                                    

                                                              STEP 5: Fold the centre crease.

STEP 6: Fold the right side towards the centre (slightly more than the centre )crease.Now glue this.

STEP 7: Similarly fold the left side towards right side. It should overlap the right side fold.

STEP 8: Now told the right side fold's corner exactly at the centre crease.

STEP 9: Insert your finger on the last fold and make it into a flat diamond. Glue it, leaving the opening alone.

STEP 10: Now fold the upper side and grab it until it is (a little more than) half inside the diamond.  Now your envelope is ready.

Want list - Malta

Gold Foil - Death of Caravaggio, 2010 MS

Odd Shape(Quadrangular) - 1967 Christmas stamp

QR code - 2009 Cruise liners

This stamp is available with QR code at the bottom tag, Unfortunately I don't have that picture

India's First Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet

Odisha is hosting the 2018 Men's Hockey World cup. To commemorate this, India post has issued an Olive Ridley turtle shaped Miniature sheet. Olly, the Olive Ridley sea turtle is the mascot of this tournament.  Gahirmatha beach in Odisha is the World's most important nesting beach for the Olive Ridley Sea turtles. One of the 5 stamps issued, shows Olly playing hockey and the tournament cup. The shadow image of Puri Jagannath temple is portrayed on the Miniature sheet. 

There are 16 teams participating in this tournament and India is the second country to host the Hockey World cup thrice. The only other country is Netherlands.  Earlier India hosted the World Cup in 1982 in Mumbai and in 2010 in Delhi.