A young bride who wanted to raise awareness about the amount of waste in society has posed for wedding photos in front of a mountain of garbage together with her newly-wedded husband.
Dressed in a stunning white wedding gown, the bride, named Iris Hsueh, stood against a pile of trash that had accumulated in Puli, in Taiwan, on 14th October.
Hsueh and the groom, who was not named, travelled to the location that she had specifically chosen to be the backdrop in a bid to raise awareness about garbage explosion in the city.
The blushing bride told local media that the issue is not unique to Puli and hopes everyone will pay attention to the problem and reduce the amount of waste.
She admitted that the photographer thought she was joking when she first suggested the location.
Their photographer, who had been snapping bridal couples for 30 years confessed they had never encountered anyone wanting to have their wedding photoshoot at a garbage site.
Hsueh said that the smell at the shooting site was strong, but she hopes everyone can pay attention to the overflowing garbage in Taiwan.
She added that she hopes to help somehow reduce the amount of garbage that makes it harder to see how beautiful Taiwan is.
She thanked her fiance for supporting her choice of an unconventional wedding photoshoot location.
They plan an eco-friendly, vegetarian wedding in January and said they will ask guests to bring their own containers and utensils.
City workers in Puli had been forced to pile up the collected rubbish as a temporary solution due to a lack of storage space, local media reported.
Li Yishu, the director of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Nantou County Government, said that towns like Caotun and Zhushan in the county have garbage storage or burial sites.
Although the Environmental Protection Bureau helps transport some of Puli Town’s garbage to other cities and counties, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the daily garbage volume.
Officials are currently working on figuring out a permanent solution.
