Whale sculpture put up in downtown Zagreb to warn of plastic waste in seas
- by croatiaweek
- in News
(Photo: Greenpeace Croatia)
ZAGREB, Oct 17 (Hina) – In a campaign aimed at raising public awareness of the problem of large quantities of plastic waste in seas and oceans, Greenpeace activists put up a sculpture in downtown Zagreb on Wednesday showing two whales covered in plastic waste.
Three and six metres high, the sculptures represent whales emerging from a sea filled with plastic waste. They were made by Italian Greenpeace activists.
(Photo: Greenpeace Croatia)
The sculptures are covered in plastic bags from shopping malls, which underlines the problem of the lack of responsibility in the management of plastic waste in Croatia.
(Photo: Greenpeace Croatia)
Greenpeace campaign director Petra Andric said the campaign was closely related to the adoption of a European directive on disposable plastic bags and was aimed at prompting the Environment and Energy Ministry to see to it that the directive was implemented as soon as possible.
(Photo: Greenpeace Croatia)
The activists called on citizens to sign their petition in Zagreb’s main Ban Josip Jelacic Square or on Greenpeace’s website.
(Photo: Greenpeace Croatia)
