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#Strawpocalypse

Volunteers preparing the installation, The Parting of the Plastic Sea (2019), as part of #Strawpocalypse by Benjamin Von Wong. The artist and activist collaborated with Zero Waste Saigon and Starbucks Vietnam to gather a total of 168,000 drinking straws for the project. Image courtesy of the artist

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