Life-sized plastic whale to raise awareness

[Still Waters]

Artists are putting the finishing touches on an 82-foot-long (24-meter-long) blue whale made from discarded plastic that will be on display near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge to raise awareness about ocean pollution.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium said Friday a blue whale can weigh 300,000 pounds (136,000 kilograms)—about the amount of plastic scientists say enters the ocean every nine minutes.

A 2015 study by Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia, found 9 million tons (8 million metric tons) of plastic waste enter the ocean annually.

The sculpture created from plastic water bottles, lids and bags by artists Joel Deal Stockdill and Yustina Salnikova will be publicly unveiled Saturday.

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-life-sized-plastic-whale-ocean-pollution.html?

[zep73]

The plastic pollution of the seas makes me angry. It shows that some people don't care about the world or the future. They don't care at all.

They're idiots, and don't deserve to live.