“All through my growing up years, I celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi in a grand way along with family and friends but I was always concerned about the Visarjan procedure. I could see a lot of dried leaves and flowers used during Puja thrown away on the last day of the festival. Also, the idols which we worship for 10 days would be drowned in a lake or pond nearby further leading to water pollution.
I felt I should do something about it. So in 2018, our organization, Green Waves Environmental Solutions, came up with the idea of making eco-friendly seed clay Ganesha idols.
What started with the simple thought of doing something good for the environment, soon turned out to be a successful social venture. We used pure clay for making these Ganesh idols along with seeds of vegetables, flowers, and herbal plants. The idea is, once the festival is over, people can put them in a pot and grow a plant.
When we introduced this concept in 2018, we didn’t receive much response from the people because they were generally attracted to the plaster of Paris idols. But once they got to know about our waste management initiatives such as plantable pencils and national flags, many of them started approaching us, and last year, we could manage to sell more than 1500 seed clay Ganesha idols. This year, the number has only doubled and I am happy that we could bring a positive change with these eco-friendly concepts.
Through our Green Waves Seed clay Ganesha, we aim to celebrate the biggest festival of the year in a green manner and our green Ganesha kit will help people plant a tree, thereby reducing global warming and protect our already dying water bodies. Not only this, we are also planning to collect dried flowers which people use for their puja so that they can be converted into charcoal-free incense sticks through flower cycling technology.”
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