Can you guess which two toys weren’t found on a beach? Play the game on our Facebook page!
How plastic is our ocean? The adventure documentary “A Plastic Ocean” exacts a critical warning — please help us get the word out today.
Photographer Barry Rosenthal’s
work incorporates trash found in coastal areas of the New York Harbor.
The
Two Hands Project has a straightforward approach to plastic pollution: Take 30 minutes and two hands to clean up your world anytime, anywhere.
The Two Hands Project is a PPC member organization.
Another tide of plastic trash has washed ashore in Cornwall. See the disturbing photos.
Dirty
Beach UK, a Brighton-based collaboration between artists Lou McCurdy
and Chloe Hanks, developed a pop-up, touring “supermarket” that stocks
only “locally-sourced” plastic items recovered from beaches.
“We like to create popular, provocative and witty work that focuses on
the social and environmental challenges of plastics and throwaway
culture.”
The installation is a humorous and provocative piece of art with a good helping of science and ecology.
Dirty Beach UK is a PPC member organization.
PPC
supporting artist and ally Pam Longobardi talks about her work with plastic pollution in the new issue of Drain Magazine.
Styrofoam and plastic pollution are washing up on San Francisco beaches after the recent storms. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Plastic-Washes-Up-On-Ocean-Beach-364760761.html
Artist
and PPC contributor Jo Atherton reports on the origin of the pink detergent
bottles that washed ashore in her native Cornwall last week. “The bleach
solution poses little threat to wildlife, but of greater concern are the
bottles themselves.”
PPC Visual Artist Pam Longobardi uses plastic pollution in her art. Her work is part of “SIDESHOW ON MARS,” a new exhibit opening tonight at Life on Mars Gallery in Brooklyn. The exhibit runs through January 31.
If you’ll be in Hawaii on Monday, January 18 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), participate in Plastic Free Hawaii’s beach clean-up!
Thousands of pink plastic detergent bottles wash up on Cornwall’s beaches: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-35226958
Here’s a list of the significant ocean events that happened in 2015, including plastic pollution. Refuse disposable plastic to keep it off our beaches.
“Forever is today for our children.
Delete plastic from your world.
Our oceans are death zones, our beaches plastic.
Refuse2Use” - Peter Fonda
#Resolve2Refuse disposable plastic: http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/get-involved