Visitors to the Kanakakkunnu Palace, the main venue of the Tourism department’s Onam Week celebrations, are sure to have a rethink on the overuse and discarding of plastic materials.
A 90-foot-long snake installation made out of 20,000 used plastic bottles about to gobble up the globe, installed at the venue, serves as a reminder to the unsustainable practices that have been causing environmental damage.
Eleven students of the College of Fine Arts here took four days to complete the installation using plastic bottles that passengers had discarded at the Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station during the past few days. The installation was made on behalf of the Suchitwa Mission, which planned the activity as a means to raise awareness among the public of the threat that humanity faces due to the uncontrolled use of plastic.
