Dead End: Belarusian eco-activists sound alarms about plastic waste

Every week the institutions located in Kastrychnitskaya street in Minsk dispose of over 20,000 discarded plastic bottles.

Photo: Tatsiana Ulasenka / Belsat.eu

Photo: Tatsiana Ulasenka / Belsat.eu

Being eager to highlight the problem, a group of eco-activists filled a retro bus to the top with the same number of bottles.

Near the bus, the activists set up a makeshift bus stop named Dead End (Kastrychnitskaya Street). The information plate contained the information about the Belarusians’ annually throwing away a billion PET bottles.

The activists also stressed that plastic stuff takes 500 years to decompose. They alo called on passers-by to use eco-friendly tableware and sort waste.

In September, the eco-activists staged the event Goodbye Plastic Bag.

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