This poignant art installation by Ben Von Wong is sending a strong message to world leaders: We need to #TurnOffThePlasticTap 🚱🥤
Plastic is leaking into nature at an unprecedented rate, polluting our oceans, choking wildlife & entering the food chain.
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A sculpture titled Giant Plastic Tap by Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong is about two storeys tall, spewing plastics all over the environment in front of the Shaw Centre in INC-4.
It's time to #TurnOffThePlasticTap ! 🚰♻️
#GiantPlasticTap #Sustainability #1BillionForEarth
Commercial fishing gear makes up nearly half of all marine plastic pollution. If we're going to #TurnOffThePlasticTap we need to stop eating fish. #overfishing #DrowningInPlastic
Why have you changed your glass bottles for nasty #plastic ones Blue Dragon ? Is this progress?
I liked the old ones and they were easier to recycle... #TurnOffThePlasticTap
The #EndPlasticPollution campaign depends on you and me. Simply just #TurnOffThePlasticTap .
#UNEP50
🎨 @VonWong' #TurnOffThePlasticTap was a global campaign to raise awareness about plastic pollution.
Using recycled plastic and waste, the structure has been recreated around the world to advocate for cutting our reliance on plastic that leaves a permanent mark on our planet.
What better way to raise awareness about pollution than making art out of it? 🇨🇦 artist Benjamin Von Wong took on the challenge and is now recognized internationally for his creativity to encourage people to rethink their plastic usage🙌 #TurnOffThePlasticTap
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Students creating a #GiantTapProject inspired by
Von Wong for @unep against plastic pollution #TurnOffThePlasticTap ! #ExtraordinaryEarthProject Students Rebuild #GYSD24 YSA
Fed up with all the #singleuseplastic , a great solution to #TurnoffThePlasticTap #PassOnPlastic #OnePlasticFreeDay 🍴
Behind me is a 4 story #TurnOffThePlasticTap art piece by activist Von Wong erected at the UN compound to mark the #UNEA5 #UNEP50 UN Environment Programme
Just received my issue of The Biologist so good to see @RoyalSocBio are still using compostable wrapper to mail content to their members. Would love to see more organisations using similar alternatives to help reduce single use plastics🐳💙 #plasticpollution #turnofftheplastictap
Srilankan pubs promoting sustainable change to it's customers.
#plasticpolution #saynotoplastic #turnofftheplastictap #saveouroceans #SriLanka #postivechange
The one and only #TurnOffThePlasticTap fundraiser is live with 50% of proceeds going to Human Needs Project.
Starting bid: ◎ 1 $SOL
43 hours. Ends @ 2:30 pm MST on the 14th.
Collection of 3x 1/1s
Shoutout to the Trash Panda Penthouse fam for making this possible.
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3) We can USE ART TO GRAB GLOBAL ATTENTION
My frens, We're building a MASSIVE PLASTIC WASTE SCULPTURE to #Turnofftheplastictap in Nairobi in 1 month and the UN Reps won't be able to ignore it.
🥁Roll: I'd like to present our partner and catalyst:
The Trash Panda Penthouse's
LFG!
Is it time to turn off the tap!?
The rate of world #plastics production exceeds 400 million tons per annum—more plastics have been produced in the past 20 years than in the five decades following World War II.
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#TurnOffThePlasticTap #ClimateCrisis
Great to see a free water refill spot so close the Museum! It's a part of reducing plastic poluution! #TurnOffThePlasticTap
#EUMissions Restore our Ocean & Waters aims to reduce #plasticpollution at sea🌊, a concept 💯 illustrated in this piece by Von Wong outside the #UNOceanConference2022 in Lisbon. #TurnOffThePlasticTap #HorizonEU #MissionOcean #MissionOcean Waters #PREP4BLUE