Hong Kong is the world' greatest consumer of plastic bags - 33 million are dumped in landfills every day.
To draw attention to the problem, the Artist Commune and the Green Student Council are holding the No Plastic Bag installation exhibition and Student Poster Design Competition at Cattle Depot Artist Village.
Works by four local artists - Kum Chi-keung, Lam Yuk-lin, Mok Yat-sun and Siy Tak-yin - will be showcased alongside winning entries of student posters centred on the theme of environmental protection.
Mok's work, Reading, is a book made of plastic bags. He cut out patterns of living things and common objects from plastic and pinned them to a wall. The work questions whether everything should be made from plastic.
Siy's installation piece Reborn comprises a roomful of plastic human heads, each wrapped individually in a red cocoon. The work portrays the struggle between humans and nature.
Siy said she faced a dilemma in choosing plastic over traditional materials, such as glass or clay, to create the piece.
'I asked myself whether it was environmentally unfriendly to use plastic in my work,' she said.