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Plastic Debris Art

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A commitment that began on their first date, Richard and Judith Lang have been collecting plastic debris from Kehoe Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore in California, for over ten years. They use these plastic articles to make beautiful works of art, not just as an exhibition of their talents, but to draw attention to the deeper concern of plastic pollution of the world's oceans.
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Learn more about Judith and Richard's work.
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 Watch how artist Ben Wilson has been using chewing gum litter to produce exquisite artwork for the community!
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 How many more of such selfless artists would we need to reduce our waste? Reduce, reuse, recycle - make a commitment to practice this idea more deeply every day.
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Sheila
To see more art from plastic pollution: washedashore.org
Sidonie Grace
Very inspiring. It's a smart way of turning the nuisance into beautiful works of art... Something we could all participate in by doing our little bit at our own level. Thank you. Namasté!
Leslee
I am. Inspired, but more disturbed by people who throw plastics on our beaches, oceans and forests. What are they thinking?
Jacob Cramer
Art is so multifaceted, and it's beautiful how he's drawing awareness to pollution through his art!
eaugot
Thought this might connect with handle with care recycle . E
TarnzArt
Love what your doing,as an artist,i to love making recycled art.you inspire me to do it with my art class.I work with mental heath,we often don't have resources......you can see wher im going with this lol.thank you fore your love story.much love Tarnz,from NewZealand
Tanya Peters
Very beautiful and the thought process behind your art and intention is consciously in the positive making this even more beautiful. I think by taking out the so called good and bad that we tend to judge of everything we look at and just look at it like an anthropologist is key to making change that is so much more impactful. Thank you for sharing each of your souls and tapping into your highest creativity. This is very inspiring and fulfills a need of feeling like we are all connected and every little action we do does make a big impact immediately and over time. Namaste
Christine Preziosi
After living in SF for a while I have become more and more aware of the recycled art mentality. I spent this thanksgiving in NY and FL and noticing all the trash!! On the beach in Florida I had a distant younger relative say, "oh man, trash beach, trash beach" as he walked out to the beach in front of his home, I was severely disappointed. Spending the rest of my walk picking up plastic but bummed out that I had no idea what to do with it. Which was overwhelming. You have inspired me and reopened those recycled art brainwaves. Thank you.
Joanne Benham Rennick
I am so grateful to you for sharing your story through this video. I am a professor of Contemporary Studies and I just finished teaching a unit on the environment with a particular focus on plastic (see Alan Weisman's online chapter Polymers are Forever). So often young people see the tremendous challenges we face as a society and feel utterly powerless to make an impact. Your work shows that individuals can make an impact through their attitudes, example and willingness to raise awareness. I really commend you for this and, most of all, your ability to see the beauty, fun and hope in the situation. If we can't do that, we might as well all just bury ourselves now. We've got to find a new way forward. Thank you so much.
bilkis
very good idea, helps to create a clean environment and clean the world of plastic pollution and creates awareness in the people and gives ideas to use the debri for useful things, very innovative
PJ Pitonyak
You have inspired me by making me think about collecting the plastic and using it to make something beautiful. I am going to show this video to my special needs Earth Science students and see if they can collect some plastics to create art. I'll share what they create.
Della Badart
I am a sustainable artist and have collections of cast offs too. I understand how it is exciting to reasemble items into something beautiful. It is unique when you have a group of an item you can make into something else. I see their goal except I see it in cotton. We all need to be sustainable. The world needs to think sustainable more than green... reuseable.
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