Life-sized plastic whale to raise ocean pollution awareness

Artists are putting the piece of legislation touches upon an 82-foot-long (24-meter-long) blue whale made from discarded plastic that will be upon display unventilated San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge to lift preparedness not quite ocean pollution.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium said Friday a blue whale can weigh 300,000 pounds (136,000 kilograms) very roughly the amount of plastic scientists herald enters the ocean every one of one of nine minutes.

A 2015 laboratory analysis by Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia, found 9 million tons (8 million metric tons) of plastic waste enter the ocean annually.

The sculpture created from plastic water bottles, lids and bags by artists Joel Deal Stockdill and Yustina Salnikova will be publicly unveiled Saturday.

It is located in Crissy Field, the heart of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

It is sponsored by the aquarium in partnership once the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.