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Environment / Ecology | Wash and melt: Idol immersion in Bengal turns a green leaf -Jayanta Basu

Wash and melt: Idol immersion in Bengal turns a green leaf -Jayanta Basu

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published Published on Oct 28, 2020   modified Modified on Oct 29, 2020

-Down to Earth

Manpower minimised, water used in the process recycled; environmentalists hail the model, but implementation under cloud

Idol immersion in Kolkata has turned a new leaf in the wake of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic through the ‘wash-and-melt’ model. Tridhara Akalbodhon, a club in south Kolkata, used water jets to melt its durga idols instead of immerising them.

Environmentalists, too, have hailed the model as environment-friendly.

The idols were positioned through a crane within a makeshift 400 square feet water body created adjacent to the pandal. Around 25,000 litres water was used to immerse five idols. The whole process took around two hours.

The clay was melted after immersing the idol. As a result, the colour peeled off, partially baring the inward frame. The water was then recycled to repeat the process.

The frames were taken to the solid waste disposal site at Dhapa on the eastern fringes of the city, where idols that were immersed in the Hooghly under conventional methods.  

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Down to Earth, 28 October, 2020, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/environment/wash-and-melt-idol-immersion-in-bengal-turns-a-green-leaf-73993?fbclid=IwAR07-FfmBZCZ8yMUbkfI_VF2kUTdXcSGO6F4GF5QRC2yjHzY6Cgaa_tW_kg


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