Why is it the need of the hour to go for eco-friendly Ganesha Murti?

Ganesh Chaturthi is a grand festival celebrated across India, especially in Mumbai to revere Lord Ganpati for peace and prosperity. For a long period, since the invention of Plaster of Paris, Ganesh Murti are made of that substance and when immersed after the occasion, generate pollution in the natural source of water like rivers and ponds.

Till this time, absolute responsibility has been manifested through our disposition and we ignored the severe effects of pollution which is slowly engulfing our mother nature. Time has come, when we should act as responsible citizens and try to make our earth less polluted by shifting towards eco-friendly Ganpati Murti. If the question arises that what is the need to do that, the rest of the article tries to explain the answer to such a question.

The main problem comes when the immersion ritual takes place. The religious belief has its own place but it is our duty to ensure that our religious beliefs should not be celebrated at the cost of nature. The question arises naturally what can be done with those numerous huge Murti made of POP? That is the point where we must think of a substitute and use such substances that can easily be immersed in water without doing much harm to our environment.

Adding to that, it saves our water resources and the marine life associated with it. As eco-friendly items are biodegradable, it gets easily dissolved in water without creating any animosity towards aquatic life and marine ecology. On top of all the things, eco-friendly items are cheap and it is very easy to get those items. So, eco-friendly Ganpati should be the new normal to invigorate our environment and make it greener.