Art Made Of Garbage Highlights The Issue Of Plastic Pollution In Ocean

The massive, fish-shaped structure composed of plastic trash was constructed by the authorities at the Besant Nagar beach in Chennai.

Multiple urban and rural sources of pollution, with plastic trash making up the majority of them, are putting the marine biodiversity of the seas under threat. Ocean plastic pollution is a persistent problem around the globe; animals may become entangled in larger pieces of plastic like fishing nets or ingest microplastics that eventually enter the food chain to be consumed by humans. We have put up this installation made with plastic waste retrieved from the ocean at Besant Nagar Beach in Chennai to mark the Mega Beach Clean up programme organised today. It not only portrays the sad reality of pollution in our oceans but also raises an alarm about the serious… pic.twitter.com/Vn0a7jhuGj

Research published in March this year found that there are an estimated 170 trillion pieces of plastic, mainly microplastics, on the surface of the world's oceans today, much of it discarded since 2005.

The officials in Chennai erected a structure of ocean plastic art at the Besant Nagar beach to raise awareness about the harmful impacts of pollution and the importance of maintaining clean beaches.

Sharing the image of the massive art structure, IAS officer Supriya Sahu, who is Additional Chief Secretary, Environment, Climate Change, and Forests, for the Govt. of Tamil Nadu, wrote on Twitter, "We have put up this installation made with plastic waste retrieved from the ocean at Besant Nagar Beach in Chennai to mark the Mega Beach Cleanup programme organised today. It not only portrays the sad reality of pollution in our oceans but also raises an alarm about the serious threat to marine biodiversity."