The following video report was filed by News 8 Austin's Heidi Zhou-Castro.

For one man, wearing plastic bags from head to toe is not a fashion statement; it’s a political statement.

Environmental activist Andy Keller is riding cross-country to spread the word about plastic bag waste. Keller wore 500 plastic bags to represent the average number used by a single individual in one year.

"The Bag Monster" is touring cities currently considering plastic bag bans. Thursday, he made a stop in Austin.

"Every year, each of you humans create a bag monster like me," he said to a crowd at Republic Square Park Thursday.

Keller also set up an installation of 45,000 plastic bags at the park. They reflect the average consumption of bags throughout a lifetime.

"We're going to multiply, and populate the Earth, and take over and cover the Earth with plastic and kick all you humans out,” he said. “We're going to start with the sea turtles.”

Keller is riding a three-wheeled motorcycle from California to New York in order to raise awareness about just how many plastic bags people use. When the tour is over, he will have visited 15 cities across the nation.

"There isn't this magical place called 'Away,' he said. "When you put things at your curb, they go away, but the reality of plastics is that they last at least 500 to 1,000 years."

"They live on in our environment. They blow around; they get caught in trees," he continued. "You've probably seen them on the side of our highways, littering our rivers."

Keller started his tour in California.

Later this month, California will vote on whether to implement a statewide plastic bag ban. If the vote for the ban passes, they would become the first state in the nation to completely ban plastic bags.