This show will change your mind about the rubbish you throw away

Plasticity Theatre Troupe’s Plastic City looks at the impact of how non-biodegradable rubbish dumped in the sea is destroying the environment. Photos: Plasticity Theatre Troupe

The ecological disaster brewing in our oceans that is the marine trash vortexes – the soupy collections of debris, mostly plastics – has rarely gone beyond the headlines in Malaysia.

But a group of six young artists from Penang who call themselves the Plasticity Theatre Troupe are looking to change that with their contemporary shadow play Plastic City.