The stunt is drawing attention to a stinky issue in the world's oceans.
The four-metre-high poo sculpture is scaled to represent the volume of plastic dumped in the world's oceans every 30 seconds.It is filled with plastic, to highlight the amount of waste being dumped into the ocean every 30 seconds.A large poo-shaped plastic sculpture has been temporarily dumped on Bondi Beach in Sydney to highlight the problem of plastic pollution.
The work is one of more than 100 initiatives taking place globally on World Environment Day and a reminder that plastic now dwarfs every other kind of litter found on Australian shores.could be slashed by 80 per cent by 2040 if plastics were reused, recycled or replaced with alternative materials, a recent United Nations Environment Programme report found.
"We are in the middle of an overwhelming toxic tidal wave as plastic pollutes our environment and negatively impacts human rights in a myriad of ways over its life cycle," special rapporteurs and environment experts David R Boyd and Marcos Orellana said in a report released on Thursday. Another report, also released on World Environment Day, suggests most agribusinesses that unlawfully clear wildlife habitats in Queensland are financed by an Australian bank, via a mortgage or other security.
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