Plastic and its impacts on the world’s oceans are at the centre of a new Douglas Coupland art exhibit at the Vancouver Aquarium.
The display, Vortex, is constructed from plastic trash that has washed up on B.C.’s shores.
Aquarium president John Nightingale said he hopes the piece helps visitors visualize the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the north Pacific Ocean.
“Over a dump truck of plastic goes into the world’s oceans every minute of every hour,” Nightingale told reporters Tuesday.
“That plastic is causing big problems with ocean animals and ocean ecosystems.”
Inspiration from real life
The exhibit includes a battered Japanese fishing boat that washed
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