A Giant Turtle

A giant turtle made from discarded plastic trash will greet visitors to the British Science Festival this week. Plastic containers, bottles and cups [blank] collected locally in Hull, where the event is taking place at the city's university. Standing 3.5m tall (11.5ft), the art installation [blank] commissioned by the University of Hull with the aim of raising awareness of plastic waste. Professor Dan Parsons, director of the university's Energy and Environment Institute, said: "Marine pollution is a mounting global challenge, which is [blank] having devastating consequences. "We have a duty to protect these fragile environments and the marine life and ecosystems which we [blank] home. The university has commissioned this installation as a physical [blank] of what is ending up in the oceans, but also to ask visitors to campus to stop and think what they could do to try to reduce their own waste."