"Everything you can ever imagine ends up on the beach."
Angela Haseltine Pozzi
A new exhibition at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut is using trash from the ocean to create art. It's an effort to highlight the importance of recycling plastic.
The exhibition, called "Washed Ashore," is the brainchild of Angela HaseltinePozzi. It features everything from life-sized humpback whale rib cages (made of plastic bottles) to faux-coral reefs and sea anemones.
"The idea is that we show all of the debris and the kinds of debris that comes in. We don't pick and chose, we try to use like 95 percent of everything we collect," Haseltine Pozzi said. "We have toothbrushes; we have pacifiers; we have rope; we have buoys; we have all kinds of things. Everything you can ever imagine ends up on the beach."
Read and seemore pictures at WNPR'sscience blog, The Beaker.