ANN/THE JAPAN NEWS-YOMIURI – A giant model of a dinosaur skeleton made from about 20,000 empty plastic bottles went on display on Friday in the Shinjuku Sumitomo Building in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.
The model can be viewed in the building’s Sankaku Hiroba all-weather atrium located on the first floor.
Sumitomo Realty & Development Co, based in Shinjuku Ward, arranged to have the model made and displayed to heighten awareness of recycling plastic bottles among office workers.
Last year, the company collected about six million 500-millilitre empty plastic bottles from three buildings in the ward.
Using some of the bottles, graduates of Tokyo University of the Arts constructed the model tyrannosaur skeleton, which measures four metres high and 10 metres long.
A 41-year-old homemaker who visited the site with her two children from Mitaka, Tokyo, said, “I want to continue thinking about the importance of recycling with my children.”
Though plastic bottles can be recycled if they are sorted and collected, companies do not sufficiently sort plastic bottles compared to households, according to Sumitomo Realty & Development.
An official of the company said, “We want to make this display an opportunity (for people) to think about recycling more plastic bottles in offices.”
