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Giant Creatures Made Out of Plastic Pollution
Brut America
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3/25/2025
Giant sharks, whales, and turtles — oh my! This nonprofit art project is making giant sea creatures out of plastic pollution. Special thanks to The Washed Ashore Project.
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We invented this amazing thing that's, you know, durable and waterproof and, you know,
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lasts forever and, you know, it can save lives, it can do all these great things,
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but it never came with a warning label that it will last forever.
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The real issue is we're now even finding microplastics in plankton.
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That's the whole food chain.
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I didn't know about marine debris, I didn't understand what the issue was
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because I hadn't ever studied it or thought about it.
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One day I saw all these people picking up rocks and agates all near the shoreline
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and then over to my left I saw this long line of marine debris
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that was like a mosaic of colors up the line
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and I was really horrified.
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I thought, what if we make giant animals that they can't ignore
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and it'll pull people in and then we can teach them about this problem
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and maybe we can make a difference.
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I work with thousands and thousands of volunteers and school kids
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and everybody helps build these sculptures.
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We get garbage just all the time and we have a place where people just drop it off
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and then they go into bins and we hose and wash.
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We have a workshop where people could come in, just drop in at any time of day,
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walk into the workshop and sit down and put things on a wire
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or stitch things with wire onto a screen.
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The heads of the animals are my thing that I do.
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It's really important to get the personality
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and I want them looking right in your eyes
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so that they can connect with the viewer and wake them up and reach their heart.
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At least once a week we have someone who's in our exhibit hall who just starts crying
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and they're like, I have to change my ways.
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I need to stop using so much plastic.
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We've got to find the positive.
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We have to realize that, first of all, humans embedded plastic
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and humans are smart and we do have good hearts.
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Most of us do and we don't want to kill the oceans.
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We just need to keep protecting it.
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