Breck Create's Precious Plastics studio in Breckenridge hit a milestone this winter, diverting 10,000 pounds of plastic from ...

A Styrofoam meadow created by artist Narendra Haynes is consumed by mealworms. The living sculpture is part of the "Eco/Systems: Gather" exhibit at Asian Arts Initiative. (Emma Lee/WHYY) A small ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A grocery store featuring thousands of faux food items made entirely from discarded plastic bags opens Tuesday to the public, an artist's non-edible creation calling attention ...

Greenpeace International unveils an art installation by artist Benjamin Von Wong, ahead of a United Nations Environment Programme summit on reducing plastic pollution, in Paris Greenpeace ...

A new anthology on plastics in art reveals the philosophical conundrums and contradictions at the heart of a material the ...

Ricky Boscarino started creating art out of recycled plastic around eight years ago, which he says changed his view on how plastics are used daily. Plastic waste can be diverted from landfills in many ...

"Plastic Fantastic" (2010) outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art (via diedrakrieger.com) Today, we received a message in a plastic bottle from Philadelphia-based artist Deidra Krieger. Labeled with a ...

The FINANCIAL — The plastic rubbish crisis facing the Earth’s marine environment is truly a tragedy of the commons, with a growing amount of manmade debris, including more than 315 billion pounds of ...

The Associated Press Robin Frohardt, creator of the Plastic Bag Store, holds plastic bag roses at the art installation on Jan. 17 in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Plastic Bag Store is a custom-built public art ...

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