Tenerife Plastic Statue Built From 30t Rubbish Find

This is the moment a huge statue is unveiled on the holiday island of Tenerife made from some of the 30 tons of plastic removed from the coastlines since last year - to highlight the effects of plastic waste on the environment.

The statue made with recycled objects, designed in the style of Canarian painter Nestor Martin-Fernandez de la Torre (1887-1938), was unveiled at the University of La Laguna located in Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands in front of a crowd of 500 people, including island officials and invited schoolchildren.

The project was the brainchild of the University of La Laguna and the Loro Parque Foundation to highlight the concerns of how plastic waste affects the environment.