That impulse has led to a series of photographic projects that illuminate plastic’s ubiquity as well as its reach—how printer cartridges that spilled off a ship in the Atlantic Ocean ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic ... sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials ...

Ocean Sole, a social enterprise ... The Frenchgate Centre says displaying some of the art reminds people about the harm plastic pollution can cause. The Kenyan charity's efforts involves more ...

NAtional Geographic The magazine has devoted much of its issue to the problem; the plastic pollution we can see at the surface is probably just a small proportion of what's in the ocean.