Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta sculptor brings awareness of plastics in our oceans to Veracruz

Faced with the growing production of plastic containers, straws and other items that, when discarded, end up in our oceans, and other places, contaminating the environment, but above all with a lethal impact on the life of animal species, particularly marine wildlife.

To reinforce this message, Greenpeace, with the support of the sculptor Javier Calvillo from Puerto Vallarta, promoted the development of a sand sculpture represented in a turtle, on the beaches of Boca del Río, a species that receives the main negative effects of plastics in the ocean.

The sand sculpture is 12 meters wide and 8 meters . . .

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