#plastic pollution
For this year's Christmas, the American University in Cairo (AUC) displayed a Christmas tree created from plastic bottles to raise awareness about plastic consumption. The tree is made of 10,000 plastic bottles, which constitutes only 15% of the monthly plastic consumption on campus. “This 6 meter high tree is a small reminder to people on out daily consumption of plastic,” Seham Sultan, the designer of the tree and AUC’s graphic design program coordinator, reiterates, “If everyone looks for greener alternatives and…