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Supermodel Helena Christensen was the first guest in a temporary hotel in Rome built largely from trash, built to raise awareness of European beach pollution.
The hotel, whose five rooms and reception area are line with about 12 tons of garbage that has been collected from various European beaches, is located next to the 2nd century Castel Saint'Angelo on the banks of the Tiber.
The hotel was conceived of and and designed by German artist HA Schult, who is famous for his work,'Trash Men,' in which thousands of life-sized human figures made entirely of non-organic waste and were placed near the Great Wall of China, the Egyptian Pyramids, in Moscow's Red Square and other emblematic locations all around the world.
The hotel stayed open from June 3-7, as a reminder to what could become of the planet if humans fail to look after it. June 5 was World Environment Day.
Says HA Schult: 'The philosophy of this hotel is to show the damage that we are causing to the sea and the coast. We are living in a time of rubbish, and we run the risk of becoming just that."
The event organisers, the Corona Save The Beach campaign, said that almost 9,000 of waste per square kilometre were left or washed up on European beaches every year.
The hotel lacked showers and used chemical toilets. Curtains were made from torn sheets.
Christensen reportedly checked out after a only few hours in the hotel, saying that she could not cope with the toilets. Foto Jacopo/Splash News/Newscom
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