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Urban Planet: Plastic Bottle Fish Sculpture

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Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.

An enormous fish sculpture made entirely of discarded plastic bottles was built on Botafogo beach in rio de Janiero, Brazil as part of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The installation is illuminated from the inside at night. (This is Colossal)

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