How much plastic do we use, consume, waste and accumulate every day? To remind us of this comes the Washed Ashore project that denounces the problem of plastic and other waste that continue to contaminate beaches, seas and oceans.
How much plastic do we use, consume, waste and accumulate every day? The project comes to remind us Washed Ashore which denounces the problem of plastic and other waste that continues to contaminate the beaches, seas and oceans.
Thousands of volunteers collected more than 12 tons of waste along the coasts in just four years and created more than 45 sculptures. Washed Ashore reminds us that one plastic bag can be mistaken for a jellyfish by a hungry turtle and that waste compromises the life of sea creatures.
Life in the seas and oceans needs our help. The sculptures, to say the least disturbing, made with i plastic waste by the volunteers participating in this project they have become part of a traveling exhibition to raise awareness of the issue of waste and the need for its reduction.
Washed Ashore's volunteers transform the plastic collected on the beaches into works of art designed to attract the attention of the spectator and to invite them to change their habits. The Washed Ashore movement is led by the environmental artist Angela Haseltine Pozzi and invites all of us to reflect on our waste-related habits.
Can we at least partially renounce products packaged with plastic? When instead we buy them, do we remember to do the separate collection and not to abandon the waste in natural places?
The appeal is also addressed to the companies, in the hope that they can reduce the volume of plastic packaging and the amount of non-recyclable materials that are still used to package food and non-food products.
Supports Thu the Washed Ashore project.
Marta Albè
Photo source: Washed Ashore
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