Plastic Message In A Bottle
An exhibit at the IUCN World聽Conservation Congress raises awareness of just how much manufactured crap聽we toss into the ocean.
罢丑别听 staked out absolutely the best location at the Hawaii Convention Center, right next to the escalators that聽connect the meeting rooms with the exhibition hall.
That’s where attendees to the聽, which concludes Saturday, can’t miss a pile of blue fish nets and scattered piles of plastic.
Get on the escalator going up, however, and you may see a design emerge: a woman swimming in the sea surrounded by honu, or turtles.
“The idea is here’s a beautiful聽woman聽swimming in the ocean, part of聽romantic聽Hawaii as a paradise, yet she is made out of plastic garbage, which is our聽day to day reality,” said Lesa Griffith.
The plastic, collected from Hawaii beaches by the nonprofit聽, is part of an exhibit titled , showing until Oct. 2 at the museum’s Spalding聽House.
As the exhibit explains, humans聽produce more than 300 million tons of plastic a year聽— 33.6 million tons of it discarded聽in the U.S. alone.
The exhibit is sponsored by聽, and .
