Trash art

The Washed Ashore project has collected over 40,000 pounds of marine debris and turned it into giant sea life sculptures.

Made from recycled plastic bottles.

My Dog Sighs, a talented street artist from England, made his first drawing when he was 7 years old. Since then everyone knew him as a child who can draw, and this was enough to set him on a journey to become an artist. Later, he left his job at a primary school where he worked as a teacher, decided to become a professional and started painting everything he thought the galleries would like.

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Confronting and unraveling the intimate relationship that contemporary society has with plastic is at the heart of artist Pam Longobardi’s mission for the Drifters Project.

These organic materials, at first appearance waste and worthless, in the late 1960s became the base of many artworks belonging to the artistic movement that ...

A series of sculptures by Virginia artist Ryan Lytle created from melting plastic grocery bags.

Working along a single stretch of coastline in Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve, artist Alejandro Duran collects countless bits of trash that washes up from locations around the world. So far he’s discovered plastic debris from dozens of countries on this shore of the Caribbean coast which he utilizes for site site-specific installations for an ongoing project titled Washed Up. By creating aesthetically pleasing landscapes from a disheartening medium, it’s Duran’s…

Found recyclable materials become art in the 3rd annual Recyclable Art Competition.

Recycled Animal Art: How to create beautiful recycled animal art out of trash and junk material. This is an exciting recycling project.