Sudarsan Pattnaik, internationally acclaimed sand artist, created a sand sculpture of Lord Ganesha with 1000 plastic bottles around it at Puri beach in Odisha. majestic installation was made on eve of Ganesh Chathurthi in order to send a mess against use of single-use plastic. sculpture also carries a mess that reads "Save our environment" on left side and "Say to single-use plastic" on or. Single-use plastic includes plastic bottles, plates, cups, packd food, and or plastic materials that can only be used once or recycled. 

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Inspired by PM Modi's anti-plastics call

According to Pattnaik, he was inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign to ban single-use plastic. Through his sand art, he appealed to people on Twitter to support and join single-use plastic ban campaign in order to save environment. sculpture is about 10 feet high and is created with five tonnes of sand. Earlier, artist has won  Peoples Choice award at Boston International Sand Art Championship 2019 for his sand sculpture that highlighted plastic ban.

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War against Single-use plastic:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has targeted single-use plastics in a big way. He is currently leading a campaign ‘Say to Single-use Plastic’. He also issued a clarion call on his latest radio show Mann ki Baat after having previously spoken about it in his Independence Day speech. He furr urged people to observe 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi this year as a day to make India plastic-free. During his Independence Day speech, he had said, “Can we free India from single-use plastic? time for implementing such an idea has come. May teams be mobilized to work in this direction. Let a significant step be made on 2nd October."

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