Some do more than just worry and wring their hands about that ocean full of plastic out there. StudioKCA of Brooklyn, New York, constructed an almost four-story tall sculpture that appears to leap out of a Belgian canal — “Skyscraper (The Bruges Whale)” — out of five tons of plastic ocean debris for the 2018 Bruges Triennial. The whale is pictured, courtesy of Alejandro Duran, Mathias Desmet and Chuck Choi of StudioKCA.

The sculpture is a “reminder of the 150 million tons of plastic waste still swimming in our waters,” StudioKCA says, and weighs several tons, is 38 feet high, 38 feet wide from fin tip to fin tip, and 12 feet in diameter. It contains 4,000 square feet of plastic, including toilet seats, kids’ toys, hangers and car bumpers. The design firm partnered with the Hawaii Wildlife Fund and the Surfrider Foundation Kaui Chapter to collect the beach debris, which took four months.

“Skyscraper is a physical example,” Lesley Chang of StudioKCA said, “of why we need to change how we use and dispose of plastic in the world today.” (tinyurl.com/plastiwhale)