{"id":50571,"date":"2021-12-10T07:06:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=50571"},"modified":"2025-04-10T04:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:24:38","slug":"giant-toroa-full-of-plastic-lands-at-mission-bay-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/giant-toroa-full-of-plastic-lands-at-mission-bay-in-auckland\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant toroa full of plastic lands at Mission Bay in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greenpeace Aotearoa has renewed its call to ban single-use plastic bottles today by revealing a sculpture of a toroa (albatross) with a ten-metre wingspan, at Mission Bay in Auckland.<\/p>\n\n<p>The haunting artwork is made out of single-use plastic bottles, and crafted in honour of a toroa who starved to death after swallowing a plastic bottle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/12\/accb3b75-image-from-ios-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The haunting artwork is made out of single-use plastic bottles, and crafted in honour of a toroa who starved to death after swallowing a plastic bottle.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-50572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/12\/accb3b75-image-from-ios-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/12\/accb3b75-image-from-ios-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/12\/accb3b75-image-from-ios-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/12\/accb3b75-image-from-ios-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/12\/accb3b75-image-from-ios-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/12\/accb3b75-image-from-ios-1-1821x1366.jpg 1821w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/12\/accb3b75-image-from-ios-1-453x340.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>This toroa became a symbol of the campaign to <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz\/plastics-banbottles\">ban single-use plastic bottles<\/a>.<br><br>The super-sized sculpture symbolises the harm plastic pollution brings to all living creatures in nature, including humans.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe world is in a plastic pollution crisis that requires urgent action and single-use plastic bottles are one of the worst culprits,\u201d says Greenpeace Aotearoa plastics campaigner Juressa Lee.<br><br>\u201cWe\u2019re here today to highlight the harm caused by throwaway plastic bottles, and to call out Coca-Cola as one of the main contributors to that crisis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cCompanies like Coca-Cola are making and selling one billion plastic bottles every year in Aotearoa, and show no sign of stopping. 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