God Statues Exporters Seek Divine Intervention Recent reports say that the environmentalists are urging the Ganesha idol makers to go green on this Ganesh Chaturthi. In this festival the household idols are carried to the sea shore, where they are immersed into the seabed. Environmentalists don't have an issue with this concept, though they have a certain discomfort with the material used in the idol making. Usually plaster of Paris is used to give the idol a robust look and shape whereas environmentalists insist on using clay and green paints.