A sculpture called the 'Plastic Monster', made from five tonnes of discarded plastic, now stands on Cox's Bazar beach. The Bidyanondo Foundation exhibition, meant to make the scale of sea pollution visible to tourists and residents, was opened on Monday evening (12 October) by Deputy Commissioner Md A Mannan and will run for four months, Samakal reports.
Beside it, a temporary theatre on the beach will show an awareness film on responsible tourism. The ticket is not money: each visitor brings two discarded plastic bottles, which the organisers say turns a night out into plastic collection and recycling.
The plastic came from Bidyanondo's 'Plastic Exchange Store', where people hand in waste plastic all year in return for everyday goods. The organisers hope the sculpture will push people to use less single-use plastic, put waste in bins and travel responsibly.
Opening the exhibition, the deputy commissioner said the sea is a natural resource central to biodiversity and the economy, yet carelessness lets plastic waste threaten the sea and the beach. Keeping Cox's Bazar clean, he said, needs tourists, residents and traders as well as the administration.
Jamal Uddin, a director of the foundation, said the monster is a reflection of our own carelessness. He hoped visitors would not just take photographs but ask themselves where their plastic ends up and what it does to the sea.
The report is by Samakal's Cox's Bazar correspondent.
Source: Samakal
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