It’s a symbolic gesture designed mainly to draw attention to the condition of beaches in Europe. A hotel has opened its doors in Rome that is entirely covered with waste picked up on European shores.
This is an initiative by the environmental group Save the Beach. It wanted to make people aware of the incredible diversity of waste littering Europe’s beaches. From a guitar to a stuffed animal to a leather shoe, blankets and even a plastic mannequin’s leg, the walls of the Save the Beach Hotel are a testament to people’s disregard of nature and show that it is not only limited to cigarette butts or small pieces of paper.
The hotel is located near the Vatican and has five rooms and a reception. It ensures visitors the hotel does not smell like garbage.
Danish supermodel and environmental campaigner Helena Christensen told the BBC: "When you’re inside the house, there are walls as there would be in a normal house, but they are all made of inorganic waste. And then the outside… is completely covered in everything that we throw on beaches. And so you can basically just go around the house, and look at a lot of very personal objects, and some of them make you really wonder what made a human being throw this away on a beach."
The hotel opened on June 4 and stays open only four days until June 7.