Current:Home > ContactFrom trash-strewn beach to artwork: How artists are raising awareness of plastic waste -TradeBridge
From trash-strewn beach to artwork: How artists are raising awareness of plastic waste
View
Date:2025-04-19 05:41:41
This article originally appeared inNexus Media News.
Duke Riley started out making maritime crafts, like sailor’s valentines and scrimshaws, entirely out of shells, bones and other natural materials that washed ashore on the beaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts and greater New York. Then, on a walk in 2017, he picked up what he thought was a piece of bone. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was a plastic brush used for scrubbing boats.
veryGood! (7)
Related
- Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
- Toyota to invest $922 million to build a new paint facility at its Kentucky complex
- California DMV apologizes for license plate that some say mocks Oct. 7 attack on Israel
- Don't let hackers fool you with a 'scam
- New Mexico governor seeks funding to recycle fracking water, expand preschool, treat mental health
- Angelina Jolie nearly fainted making Maria Callas movie: 'My body wasn’t strong enough'
- Military service academies see drop in reported sexual assaults after alarming surge
- Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people
- Gen. Mark Milley's security detail and security clearance revoked, Pentagon says
- Moving abroad can be expensive: These 5 countries will 'pay' you to move there
Ranking
- Which apps offer encrypted messaging? How to switch and what to know after feds’ warning
- Dick Vitale announces he is cancer free: 'Santa Claus came early'
- The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds
- Backstage at New York's Jingle Ball with Jimmy Fallon, 'Queer Eye' and Meghan Trainor
- Spooky or not? Some Choa Chu Kang residents say community garden resembles cemetery
- Trump suggestion that Egypt, Jordan absorb Palestinians from Gaza draws rejections, confusion
- DeepSeek: Did a little known Chinese startup cause a 'Sputnik moment' for AI?
- The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
Recommendation
A White House order claims to end 'censorship.' What does that mean?
The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room
What do we know about the mysterious drones reported flying over New Jersey?
'Vanderpump Rules' star DJ James Kennedy arrested on domestic violence charges
Brianna LaPaglia Reveals The Meaning Behind Her "Chickenfry" Nickname
This was the average Social Security benefit in 2004, and here's what it is now
Military service academies see drop in reported sexual assaults after alarming surge
The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds