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Here’s Why A Giant Plastic Whale Will Be ‘Beached’ At Castille Square Tonight

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Olympic gold medalist rower James Cracknell poses with Plasticus. Photo: PA

A special visitor is expected at Valletta’s Castille Square tonight – a massive plastic whale meant to raise awareness against ocean littering. 

The whale, nicknamed ‘Plasticus’, is ten metres long and made up of a quarter of a tonne of plastic recovered from oceans, beaches and recycling plants to represent the amount of plastic which gets dumped into the world’s oceans every second.

It is the brainchild of the Sky Group communications company, which has already sent it on a tour of several cities in the United Kingdom and has now shipped it to Malta to coincide with a major EU oceans conference which will be held at the Hilton Hotel tomorrow.

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Plasticus is made up of the same amount of plastic which gets dumped into the oceans every second 

“In conjunction with the Our Ocean Conference 2017, Plasticus the whale will be positioned outside the Auberge de Castille to help raise awareness about the dangerous amount of plastic in our oceans,” a Sky Group spokesperson told Lovin Malta. “Sky hopes Plasticus will draw attention to this alarming fact and encourage the public to change their plastic consumption habits.”

Sky plans to erect Plasticus at Castille Square at 9pm tonight but if the weather does not permit it, it will be postponed to tomorrow morning. It will stay there until Sunday morning, which means the thousands of people who visit Valletta for the Notte Bianca festival on Saturday will get a chance to view it.

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Prince Charles is in Malta to attend the Our Ocean conference 

The Our Ocean conference is a major annual event aimed at encouraging countries and businesses to make concrete commitments to protect the marine environment. Several high-profile speakers will address tomorrow’s conference in Malta, including Prince Charles, European Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella, Sky Group CEO Jeremy Darroch, and Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.

Malta used last year’s conference to announce the designation of nine new marine protected areas, and Muscat could be expected to use this occasion to flesh out plans for a money-back scheme for plastic bottles. 

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