Plastic Packaging Gets New Life in Xuanhao Li’s Elegant Jellyfish Lamps
January 31, 2025
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Mulyana Transforms Plastic Yarn and Netting into Arresting Ocean Textures
October 16, 2024
In ‘The Repatriation of King Skellig Mör,’ Duke Riley Explores the Bizarre Relationship Between Nature and Institutional Power
May 31, 2024
A Nonprofit Is Creating Modern Loungers Entirely from Plastic Pulled from Bali’s Waterways
March 21, 2024
Otherworldly Zip-Tie Sculptures by Sui Park Crawl Across Galleries and Sprout in City Parks
December 5, 2023
The Drifters Project Harnesses Community to Clean the Oceans and Visualize Global Plastic Pollution
November 6, 2023
By Engraving Found Plastic Waste, Duke Riley Links Extractive Practices Throughout Human History
July 6, 2023
Plastic Bottle Caps Bound by Thread Undulate Across Ghizlane Sahli’s Embroidered Sculptures
October 12, 2022
The Ocean Cleanup Conceptualizes Its Third Massive Apparatus to Remove Trash from the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
September 22, 2022
Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder
September 2, 2022
Monumental Forms Ripple and Float in Leeroy New’s Sculptures Made from Discarded Plastics
April 5, 2022
In ‘Turn Off the Plastic Tap,’ Three Tons of Waste Pour From a Spigot Floating 30 Feet Above Ground
March 10, 2022
Social Issues and the Climate Crisis Intertwine in Subversive Crocheted Works by Jo Hamilton
November 15, 2021
An Insightful Short Film Follows a 90-Year-Old Fisherman Who Clears Plastic from Bali’s Coasts
August 6, 2021
A Colorful Macro Photo of Beach Sand Reveals Infinitesimal Fragments of Coral, Quartz, Shells, and Plastic
July 29, 2021
‘Fake Food, Real Garbage’: A Satirical Store is Fully Stocked with Groceries Made Entirely of Plastic
July 7, 2021