The Cellar - Aug 26th, 2018: Bruge’s Skyscraper

Bruge Belgium is celebrating it’s triennial with the theme Liquid City.
One display is this whale made with 10,000 lbs(4536 kg) of trashed plastic, called skyscraper.
The best part is when they’re done with it they can break it up and le it wash out to sea.

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Skyscraper contains nearly 4,000-square-feet of plastic waste, which is just a dent in the 150 million tons of plastic that currently circulates in our seas. STUDIOKCA worked with the Hawaii Wildlife Fund to coordinate several beach clean-ups, which is how the team found most of the plastic for the 10,000-pound whale.

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“Right now there is 150 million tons of plastic swimming in the ocean, our oceans, the oceans we share,” says Klimoski in a video created about the project. “Pound for pound that is more plastic waste swimming in the ocean than there is whales. So an opportunity like this to show the type of plastic and the amount of plastic that ends up in our oceans is really important.”

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