{"id":4546,"date":"2004-09-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/15\/2004-09-15-mumbai-trust-prepares-eco-friendly-ganesh-icons\/"},"modified":"2004-09-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-15T12:00:00","slug":"2004-09-15-mumbai-trust-prepares-eco-friendly-ganesh-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/15\/2004-09-15-mumbai-trust-prepares-eco-friendly-ganesh-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai Trust Prepares Eco-Friendly Ganesh Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dailypioneer.com\/indexn12.asp?main_variable=STATES&#038;file_name=state4%2Etxt&#038;counter_img=4\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>MUMBAI, INDIA, September 12, 2004: Keen on reducing water pollution due to immersion of Ganesh icons in sea\/river waters, a city-based religious trust has embarked on a novel project to spread awareness about &#8220;environment-friendly&#8221; Ganesh icon. Instead of icons made of Plaster of Paris, which offer longevity and convenience but are the very material contributing to the pollution &#8211; the group has put forth an idea of icons made of &#8220;water-soluble&#8221; paper pulp to draw attention of the masses towards the major cause. City-based Shri Satguru Aniruddha Upasana Trust, which runs several projects of direct relevance to society, has taken the initiative albeit on an experimental basis to bring home a chemical free lord Ganesh icon. The organization has a 13-point program guidelines for which have been drawn by their guru Bapu. &#8220;One successful program of this 13-point scheme is recycling of paper. We already make various items like toys and alphabet blocks from &#8220;papier mache.&#8221; So this year when Bapu asked us to try out something on similar lines for the Ganesh icon, we came out with an icon made entirely from paper pulp,&#8221; Vilas Muley of the trust said. The traditional icons are made of shaduchi mati (clay). But, because the icons made of it are not commercially viable, the murtikaars (icon-makers) these days use Plaster of Paris, which is cheap and easy to manufacture in bulk, he said, adding, &#8220;Plaster of Paris is the main culprit.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceMUMBAI, INDIA, September 12, 2004: Keen on reducing water pollution due to immersion of Ganesh icons in sea\/river waters, a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}