Glass and plastic bottles recovered from the sea are combined for the Musical Sea Star sculpture at the Washed Ashore interactive percussion art exhibit at the SF Zoo in San Francisco, Calif. on ...

Jordan-based artist Maria Nissan is on a mission: to rid the world of single-use plastics and to raise public awareness about the environmental scourge through eye-catching art.One of her best-known ...

A combination science and art project, Gyre involved a journey to Alaska’s beaches to examine and collect washed-up garbage, and then making beautiful art out of it. Alaska possesses some of ...

“I became aware of environmental issues the moment I saw with my own eyes just how much plastic waste was in the ocean.” Japanese manicurist turns beach trash into stunning works of art: 'I ...

How does garbage shape our world? That’s the driving question behind “Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic,” on view at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in ...

The art was created by St. Paul artist Sonja Dapper. (Jared Kaufman / Pioneer Press) Items including buttons, plastic silverware, and old toys form a collaged portrait of the musician Prince.

Ann Arbor, Mich. — A traveling art installation and immersive film experience, The Plastic Bag Store is using a sense of humor to tell a unique interactive story about the amount of plastic ...

The art installation features colorful sculptures featuring an 11-foot seahorse, a 13-foot-long eel, a 150-pound anemone and seven other gigantic aquatic animals, all made of trash.

The officials in Chennai erected a structure of ocean plastic art at the Besant Nagar beach to raise awareness about the harmful impacts of pollution and the importance of maintaining clean beaches.

The strength of the art hopefully serves to "raise awareness to a very important and increasingly critical subject matter, that is plastic pollution in our oceans," she said.

Back to homepage / Live news Jordan's plastic trash turned into art with a message. Amman (AFP) – Jordan-based artist Maria Nissan is on a mission: to rid the world of single-use plastics and to ...