Impact of festivals on pollution: Analysis

Ahead of Diwali, the Supreme Court banned the sale of firecrackers in Delhi-
NCR till 1 November 2017. The judgement was delivered by the apex court to
protect the city from the recurrence of 2016-like incident. In the previous
year, on the next day of Diwali, the air quality in Delhi 14 times more
polluted than the safe limit.

Ahead of Diwali, the Supreme Court banned the sale of firecrackers in Delhi-
NCR till 1 November 2017. The judgement was delivered by the apex court to
protect the city from the recurrence of 2016-like incident. In the previous year,
on the next day of Diwali, the air quality in Delhi 14 times more polluted than
the safe limit. Smoke from firecrackers choked the air and also affected
visibility in large parts of Delhi and the adjoining areas in Uttar Pradesh.
It is against this backdrop, it is pertinent to know the reasons for increased
pollution during festivals, its impact on the environment and health and also
the steps to be taken to curtail this alarming situation.
Reasons for increased pollution during festivals are –
• Bursting of crackers on the occasion of various festivals like Dussehra and
Diwali, increase in usage of fuels as a result of travelling during festivals and
high consumption of ‘unclean’ fuels by eatery shops to meet the festive season
demands cause the air pollution to increase during festivals.
• Immersion of idols and related pooja material in nearby streams, lakes and
rivers after Ganesh Chaturthi and Dussehra are the primary reason behind
pollution of water bodies across the country.
• Unrestricted use of loudspeakers and burning of high decibel crackers causes
the noise levels go up compared to the normal times and cause the noise
pollution during festivals. The imported crackers, especially from China are
found be to be violating the norms of the land.
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The air, water and noise pollution together have an adverse impacts on the
environment and health. Some of them are –
• Increase in suspended particulars, especially PM 2.5, which are released into
the environment by the crackers have an adverse impact on children and
elderly. They lead to diseases like heart strokes and asthama and even impact
the mental health.
• Continuous exposure of water bodies to polluting material lead to decrease
in the purity of lakes and streams that satisfy irrigation and drinking water
needs of people. Contaminated water can cause many types of diarrheal
diseases, including cholera, and other serious illnesses such as guinea worm
disease, typhoid and dysentery.
• Noise pollution affects both health and behavior. Unwanted noise can
damage psychological health. Noise pollution can cause hypertension, high
stress levels, tinnitus, hearing loss, sleep disturbances, and other harmful
effects.
• The high wastage during festivals also impact the health of ragpickers and
people living near the dumpyards.
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Way forward
In view of the above mentioned adverse impacts of festivals on the
environment and public health, the following reasonable restrictions can be
taken by the government.
• Imported crackers, which are at the centre of criticism, should be banned by
the government. This step even leads to consumption of safe crackers by the
citizens and more employment opportunities. Strict regulations should be
enforced against the domestic products to make them environmentally
friendly. Further, the products should mention the ingredients used and the
noise it causes while burning. This measure leads to greater awareness among
people while purchasing.
• Information and communication technologies and the social media should be
used to a great extent to spread the ill effects of high decibel crackers.
• The government should encourage the eco-friendly idols so that they will not
pollute water bodies after immersion. The government should consider taking
the help of educational institutions and celebrities in spreading the awareness
in this regard.
• The use of high decibel loudspeakers should be banned irrespective of the
community involved in its use.
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Conclusion
Article 25 of the constitution provides for freedom of conscience and the right
to freely profess, practice and propagate religion by all the citizens of the
country. But it should also be noted that the article also provides for
reasonable restrictions like the practice of religion should be subject to public
order, morality and health. This constitutional provision seeks to strike a
balance between the fundamental right to freedom of religion of citizens and
the need to secure public order and health by the State. The authorities must
come up with proactive measures to curb pollution during the festivals by
considering the Article 25 in letter and spirit.
Unfortunately, every year, the quantum of air and noise pollution caused due
to the bursting of firecrackers increases on Diwali.

Firecrackers release pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, carbon

monoxide etc in the air, which causes ailments like asthma and bronchitis. Not
only the elderly and patients in hospitals, but animals and birds are also
affected due to air and noise pollution.

Though various schools and organisations organised demonstrations prior to

Diwali to educate the masses on a pollution-free festival, their efforts have
been futile.

The environment and pollution departments also got notices published in

various newspapers about regulations to curb noise and air pollution, but to no
avail.

As per directions of the Supreme Court, bursting of sound-emitting firecrackers

has been banned between 10pm to 6am. However, shockingly, the direction
was openly flouted as firecrackers were burst throughout the night.

This caused excessive noise and air pollution. On the receiving end of this
menace were the elderly and patients in hospitals.

Post Diwali, the roads are littered with the remnants of fireworks. The deluge
of garbage, including empty bottles used to light off rockets, on every nook
and corner of the city is a worrying sign.
“It’s not a new thing. This happens every year,” said Naresh Johar, a city-based
writer.

Bad effect of a festival to the environment can be: Noise pollution. This may
occur during the festivals when there songs that have been put and are around
And they end up polluting the environment. Another can be Air pollution
especially when they are burning offerings to their Gods. Most of the so called
offering produce a lot of smoke especially when they are being burnt. The
smoke pollutes the environment hence affecting the environment.

What are the needs and importance of the bad effects of festivals on the
environment?
Festivals are necessary because we humans have an innate desire to come
together and engage in common activity. Religion just happened to provide
that excuse to us. Watch children who gather together and dance and shout
for no reason. We as adults have not lost that childhood joi de vivre. Hence we
celebrate festivals.

As regards pollution it is a question of awareness. We will and do pollute even

without festivals. Festivals merely give us the social sanction to indulge in that
excess. But with increasing awareness a sense of social responsibility starts to
develop. I am already seeing thes...

Festival :- it is a important day for children.The children calculate each and

every day;some use reverse counting.It brings happiness in
family,society,etc.But it is blamed for environment bad health.Taking examples
of Indian festival:-Holi and Diwali.Diwali is being blamed for air pollution by
people who care about environment.Similarly Holi blamed for
water pollution.It is we for our enjoyment have put all blames on festival.We
changed the traditional way of celebrating festival.Looking back into history
Diwali was never celebrated by burning crackers and Holi was never celebrated
by was...

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Unfortunately, every year, the quantum of air and noise pollution caused due
to the bursting of firecrackers increases on

Diwali.

Firecrackers release pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, carbon

monoxide etc in the air, which causes

ailments like asthma and bronchitis. Not only the elderly and patients in
hospitals, but animals and birds are also affected

due to air and noise pollution.

Though various schools and organisations organised demonstrations prior to

Diwali to educate the masses on a

pollution-free festival, their efforts have been futile.

The environment and pollution dep...

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Akshay Sharma, B.Tech. (ECE), Student, Learner, Civil Services Aspirant

Updated Jun 27, 2017
 The current scenario of the world is that due to excessive & over-
exploited use of resources we are in a situation of worst pollution
conditions. We are facing problems due to pollution in every field be it
Air, Water, Noise or any other. All this has already been affecting the
environment adversely.
 Some of the festivals nowadays have become special days/events of
adding to the already deteriorating condition of the environment.
Like Diwali celebration adds up to air and noise pollution enormously.
Similarly, the 'Visarjan' festivals add up to water pollution greatly. First
of all,
There is No need or Importance Of bad effects of festivals on environment…

Last of all,

God has gifted us the Environment, the surroundings,the Nature…

We are here to upgrade the beauty…not to destroy it in levity….

Therefore using resources that affect one’s state in a negative way …Is NOT
GOOD…

AND..people need to understand it…

But, What happens ,is

….People Are Frivolous and want to go mad for popularity during a fète….

 instead of individual celebration prefer community celebration. This

will ensure the reduced cost of celebration; paper pollution in a
limited space and as compared to the individual celebration, a
community celebration will cause less air and noise pollution.
 Even while celebrating commonly make sure that you limit your
celebration for a limited period of time. Your celebration can last for
maximum 3 to 4 hours.
 Instead of selecting traditional chemical cracker this Diwali goes for
eco-friendly Diwali crackers. Eco-friendly crackers are made up of
recycled paper and the sound produced by the...

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Daniel Hewes, works at The Sustainable Performance Institute

Answered Sep 25, 2018 · Author has 94 answers and 36.2k answer views
I’m not sure that I’m understanding your question. What are the needs and
importance of the bad effects…?

We don’t need the bad effects of festivals on the environment. In fact, it’s
important — imperative, really — that we eliminate as many “bad effects”
against the environment as possible. With that being said, I don’t think that
music festivals are necessarily a resounding “bad effect,” even if a lot of waste
and pollution is often left behind in the aftermath of the events.

The bad effects are:

 waste left behind

 polluted air from vehicles
 destruction of natural areas
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Festivals are occasions when we pay obeisance to our Gods and Goddesses;
they are annual or seasonal events of joy and fervour. But, in the midst of the
pomp and gaiety, we become inconsiderate towards the environment.

With due reverence to people of different faiths, I must say during or after the
festivals we pollute our air, water and the surroundings in several ways. During
Diwali, the sound pollution becomes intolerable, especially for the old and the
infirm. By immersing idols, once the many Pujas are over, we pollute the
Ganges, Yamuna and other rivers with the colour of the idols and a few other
accompaniments. The smoke released into the atmosphere, when we burst
crackers, causes a lot of harm, especially to those who suffer from lung or
heart diseases.
We should make an effort to enjoy our festivals by taking into note the
environmental harms that some of our actions cause and, accordingly, try to
take suitable remedial measures.

Methodology of bad effects of various festivals in environment methodology

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Festivals are occasions when we pay obeisance to our Gods and Goddesses;
they are annual or seasonal events of joy and fervour. But, in the midst of the
pomp and gaiety, we become inconsiderate towards the environment.

With due reverence to people of different faiths, I must say during or after the
festivals we pollute our air, water and the surroundings in several ways. During
Diwali, the sound pollution becomes intolerable, especially for the old and the
infirm. By immersing idols, once the many Pujas are over, we pollute the
Ganges, Yamuna and other rivers with the colour of the idols and a few other
accompaniments. The smoke released into the atmosphere, when we burst
crackers, causes a lot of harm, especially to those who suffer from lung or
heart diseases.
We should make an effort to enjoy our festivals by taking into note the
environmental harms that some of our actions cause and, accordingly, try to
take suitable remedial measures.

Observations of adverse effect of festivals on environment

Adverse effect of festivals on environment :-
Indian culture is highly diverse and that's why different festivals are celebrated
in our country throughout the whole year,and there are many effects of these
festivals on our environment.
Such as;
1) The firecracker causes a lot of air pollution.
2) The water is heavily misused in the festivals like Holi.
3) The high volume speakers and Dj causes a lot of noise pollution.
4) The rivers are also polluted during various religious festivals.
And many more
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Analyse The Environment Effect Of Events

The scope of this essay is about issues in the effect that an event can be
caused, either in social, economic, and also environment. Not only the affects
it selves but also this essay cover the topics in assessing the challenges that
may occurs to environment management industry. I focus on identifying
environments factors that effecting events by offering analysis to it. Also in this
essay I set the limit about the kind of events into just festival, cultural events,
and social events, so the prospects of the person who reads are limited and as
a result this met their expectation since that this essay only talked about
something in wide scope ,not in detail.

When we talk about environment effects of an event, we cannot be far from

pollution. Pollution is the biggest issue ever that every government must face
in order to protect their environment. Based on curry and Moutinho (1992)
that said “the relationship between tourism and environment is a symbiotic
relationship in sense that conservational area, wild life, and preservation of
sites and monuments of historical interest often a response to tourism
demand but have the effect of stimulating and maintaining the flow of visitors
to that region,” government cares about the environment because they can
get profit from tourism sector. So that in defining any effects in this essay, I
divide the effects into two parts. The first is the negative effect of an event to
the environment, and the next one is the positive effect of an event to the
environment. Then based on those negative effects I will divide it into two
parts as well. The direct negative effect of an event to environment and also
the indirect negative effect of an event are that parts. After that there are
some challenges about environment caused by effect of events in event
management industry.

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Firstly we will talk about the negative effects of an event to the environment.
Just like I stated in the introduction, this negative effects are divided into two
categories, the direct negative effects and indirect negative effects as well. The
meaning of negative is already known, it can be something bad, terrible, not
proper and many more, but the meaning of direct negatives effect in this essay
is about any bad effects that may occurred as the straight result of an event to
its environment that come from the waste and material procession of the
event itself. Then I will identify some certain events that give direct negative
effect to the environment and analyze why that events may cause those
damage. The first event is Taiwan lantern festival which held every year when
about thousands of Taiwanese light balloon of lantern that made from oil-
soaked in folded paper and then put it in high pole. This caused the debris
from that lantern to litter the environment and one day this set a fire near
Taiwan International Airport, thus create huge amount of cloud and later on
many flight is cancelled temporarily. Those smokes may contain carcinogenic
chemicals and also benzene that are harmful for people’s health and also
becomes pollutant that may damage environment (Adam, 2008). Similar with
lantern festival is Floating Lantern Festival in Chiang may where the usage of
old style natural material made from banana trunk with the leaves stick in the
trunk is replaced by Styrofoam that resulting in the river banks, ponds, and
parks being littered and obstructed. This lead to broken environment since the
cleaning up progress may consume more time. (Jonal, 2009). The next event is
Diwali festival that held in India that consist with bursting crackers. This event
may pollute air since the crackers may release toxic gases. The third example is
about Bourgas festival in Bulgaria. In that festival, people build seven stages
and then makes tent in sea garden park which resulting everlasting and
significant effects to its animals and plants. The result is becoming worse every
year. This damage to environment mainly caused by that construction, mass
amount of people with tents, and the poor of storage bin with poor restroom
facilities as well (Illiev, 2009). The last example of direct effect to environment
is the Ganesh Festival in Western India. In this festival, big doll is created using
plaster of paris and noxious metals which are destructive substance and then
coated with paints that may contains cadmium, mercury, and carbon. All of
this doll is put into water that resulting in the decrease of oxygen level in the
water which later on may lead to dangerous health for human who eat any fish
that contaminated in that water. This festival is clearly polluted the water with
the ecosystem within it (Nita, 2007). However, pollution is not restricted only
to material pollution but, “Poorly designed hotels and other tourist facility
buildings, and inadequate or inappropriate landscaping, create visual pollution
in an area”, ( Kaur &Batra, 1996)

Now we go to the indirect negative effect of an event to its environment. The

meaning of this indirect effect is any consequence from the performance of an
event that resulting in the damage of environment by people activity that they
did in order to be able to participate in that event. People do everything they
could to participate in any certain festivals, sport events, and more events or
they just become spectators in that event. By doing that thing, realized or not
they have been participating in the destruction of environment. People don’t
realize when they littering in the area where the events was held. It is still okay
if government or official clean up the mess, but the problem occurred when
the mess is not quickly being cleaned as it may pollute the environment. They
even don’t realize that when they go to an event, they use vehicle such as cars,
planes, and even ships which all of them is participate in polluting any land,
water, and air. The bigger a festival is, the more people will come all around
the world. For instance is Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing
Arts which is the biggest music festival in the world. Many arts performed
there such as music, arts, cabaret, and dance (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc,
2009). Being the biggest in the world, we can imagine how many people from
different contingents in this world travel only to England where the event took
place. Most people must be use planes, ships, and even cars. In Vietnam, many
different countries in Europe, U.S., and Asia are participating Hue cultural
festival that have tourism, buy and sell and investment fair that participated by
qualified local and foreign business (Viet Nga Tourism, 2008). With so many
foreign countries participate in, we can assume that more different region of
people will come to Vietnam. The other events that contain many different
countries are when 15 countries attend Asian-African Children Art and Culture
Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia. Even the committee expected up to 25 countries
will bring their delegation to attend arts performance, games, and storytelling
(Zhao, 2009). Of course it is not as big as Glastonbury festival that may
attended by million people or more, but this events still makes people around
the world go by plane that participated in air pollution that damage the
environment. At this moment I will analyze why cars, planes, and ships that all
of them are used by people to attend any events is damaging the environment.
Pollution from car is the most pollution that people committed. Any emission
from car is give bad effect to the driver and people around that car. Climate
change is the responsibility of car as well since the engines create greenhouse
gas accumulation. The change in climate may produce extreme weather that
lead to failure in production of plant fields (Environmed Research, Inc., 2009).
Global climate change also worsen by plane that some people belief that it
produce more main greenhouse gas than cars each time since it produce
carbon dioxide more in average. Annual global warming as big as Africa Island
was also produced by planes (Kirby,2000). And finally is the ship pollution that
worsens the environment condition. It makes noise that bother natural world,
its ballast tank destroy algae and animals while sometimes it produce illegal
waste to the sea. Its sulphur oxide makes acid rain that later on damage crops
and when its’ inhaled by people lead to heart attack. Moreover Cruise ship that
people tend use to held some events like festival, concert abroad it or just as a
transportation facility to attend any event in different island. Cruise ship
produce solid sewage ,oily bilge, and of course air pollutants.

we talk about positive effect of an event to its environment, we talk about any
good thing that may help and prevent the environment from damage. The first
example is about Tzu Chi bazaar of food held in Medan, Indonesia. This
bazaar’s profit will be allocated to the development of any ruin building caused
by earthquake in Padang. Moreover in this bazaar that sold vegetarian food,
and environment friendly tools, people must bring their own recycle bag
because in this bazaar forbid any plastic bag that might damage the
environment (Redaksi Web, 2009). Other positive event is Plant for the Planet:
Billion Tree Campaign which backed by Kenyan environmentalist, Prince of
Monaco, and ICRAF. This campaign rehabilitates million hectares of land by
planting billion of trees that will bring back soil and water resources,
ecosystem of forest that later on reduce global warming by hold the carbon
dioxide level in the air (West,2009). Based on The Nature Conservancy (2009),
Nature conservancy campaign to help protect coral reefs also can be a positive
effect for environment. That campaign is just similar with thousand island
conservancy event in Indonesia that start everything about Hawksbill Turtle
from hatching, rearing, tagging, and releasing that can be joined by general
people (Pulau seribu.net, 2008).

Then if we want to assess the challenge that provided to this environment

issue in event management industry, we must know the challenge itself. The
main challenge of course is how to prevent and reduce the pollution that
occurs from the celebration of events. Many ways can be done to prevent the
pollution, such when held Taiwan Lantern festival, people can use virtual
lampoon instead of real fire. People can follow the rule not to littering and
leave no trace campaign that they must clean up any mess that occurs because
of them. Make substitution for event properties such as doll made from
natural friendly material can help protect the environment as well. In order to
reduce the car pollution is by buying fuel-efficient cars, use bio-fuel gasoline,
and do not drive a car in often time (Environmental Defense Fund, 2009). To
reduce plane pollution is by not flying into near distance of destination; go to
event close to home and use teleconference technology in spite of use flight
for business (Kirby, 2000). And finally in order to reduce and protect the water
pollution, any ships are supposed to have good management in recycling or
hold the waste, and they must use bio-fuel to reduce air pollution. Urban green
tourism can help to reduce the pollution with more natural friendly program. ”
By extension , green could also be read as sustainable or healthy and UGT is
then about ecological, cultural, and economic sustenance for the good health
of people and their environment”(Gibson, Dodds, Joppe &Jamieson, 1992). The
second challenge to this industry is whose responsibility for the environmental
damage this is. This is not only individual attendee, not only government, but it
is the responsibility of all parts that make this event happened. So company,
government, individual participant and sponsors are sides that have liability to
the environment around the event. Education from government and the event
committee is needed to make people realize that if they damage the
environment, they will suffer from consequences as well. This education must
decrease resistance to care about environment and otherwise they must
become enthusiasm with this problem. Next challenge is the speed of action
after any suggestion or campaign to reduce pollution caused by an event to be
done by people. Whether the speed is slow or fast, it depends on the self-
awareness of each person. Accuracy is also important that the campaign can
target people with the effective and efficient way, so they tend to protect the
environment. The last challenge is about the term where this campaign or
education about caring to the environment is being executed. This can be short
term where people are tend to keep the education only when this thing is
booming, by follow the main stream, or in a long term where people are full of
aware in protecting the environment for good.

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Conclusion

There are some effects on environment that affected by some particular event.
This effect can be measured as negative and positive effect. The negative
effects are occurred when the event with its instruments and participants
create pollution directly as a trace to an event existence and more over people
who attend in certain successful event will give pollution to air, land, and
water, by driving, use flight and cruising with ship just to see the
entertainment becomes indirect negative effect to environment . The positive
effects can be completed if there are environmental friendly festivals, bazaars,
and campaign about safety to environment and event to protect ecosystem as
well. In this case people should increase the frequency of positive events, and
try to reduce activities that may harm the environment. And for assessment of
challenges in environment that provide to event management industry is
about challenge that we face in this industry. The challenge is about preventing
and repair environment from pollution by substituting instruments of events
and reduce the usage of any vehicles. Green tourism is one of solution that can
reduce the pollution. Then people who have responsibility in the effects of
environment become some issue that must be discussed further. Next
challenge is about education that must be educated to all people who will
attend certain event and then they realize how environment is important for
their live. Accuracy and speed are the challenge that objective and measure
people’s sequence in realize about this big issue. And finally the term of this
campaign to reduce challenge is determine the successful of this movement,
the longer of the term is the best object so that environment during the show
of an event can be secured.