The eye-opening whale sculpture is filled with a mix of plastic bags, plastic containers, bottles, and other waste collected from the ocean.

With microplastics polluting the food chain and increasing numbers of marine species facing endangerment, the world’s ocean plastic issue is more urgent than ever. To push the issue, Greenpeace Philippines used art to make a bold statement about the pollution issues facing local communities. Seeking to capture the public’s attention, a nearly 50-foot-long blue whale was beached just south of Manila. But, it was no ordinary whale; it was actually a massive installation created from ocean plastic.

Greenpeace notes that though the Philippines has made steps to address plastic pollution through legislation, the reality is that the country has ranked as the third highest contributor of plastic waste in the ocean for many years. Mirroring the findings of real beached whales, the sculpture’s stomach is filled with a mix of plastic bags, plastic containers, bottles, and other waste collected from the ocean[…]

Source: Life-Size Beached Whale Installation Shocks People in the Philippines