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Science

"Washed Ashore" Exhibit at Mystic Aquarium Features Ocean Trash

Connecticut Public Radio | By Patrick Skahill
Published December 2, 2014 at 8:25 AM EST
Mystic Aquarium
An exhibition features ocean creatures sculpted from collected beach refuse.
"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. 

Credit Mystic Aquarium

"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 see more pictures at WNPR's science blog, The Beaker.
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Patrick Skahill
Patrick Skahill is the assistant director of news and talk shows at Connecticut Public. He was the founding producer of Connecticut Public Radio's The Colin McEnroe Show and a science and environment reporter for more than eight years.
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