We are looking for an intern to help organize a large scale art/activist installation in the heart of NYC (probably Times Square) that engages with issues of plastic pollution. The intern would be the face for many interactions with the public and the City, and would help with the day to day logistics of coordinating the installation. He or she would work directly with the founders of Trashpatch.org,...

Environmentalist and artist Pam Longobardi has long used the detritus of human life to highlight the issues in our collective relationship to nature.  For her latest installation, at Falls Park in Greenville, South Carolina, Longobardi joined together with students from the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities to clean up the Park’s Reedy River, then used the trash...

TED.com has posted artist and PPC Co-founder Dianna Cohen’s inspiring speech from the Mission Blue voyage about Plastic Pollution. Check it out now—if you aren’t already committed, seeing Dianna’s passion about this problem will have you taking the REFUSE pledge and encouraging others too. For years Dianna’s medium was discarded brightly colored plastic bags. As she saw how they slowly broke...

How can you not wax nostalgic finding a Monopoly piece amongst the tons of plastic washing ashore? A little green house, instantly recognizable—a poignant reminder of summer days spent in fierce economic battle with your bandit-mogul buddies. The fake bills tucked under the board. The property deeds lined up, waiting to get all the Yellows…waiting for Marvin Gardens. The lowly Baltic Avenue,...

The first warm of spring; fog is hunched a mile offshore, and, no wind. Last week’s series of storms passed with waves that brought coastal alerts and mountainous breakers at the Maverick’s surfing contest sixty miles south. At Kehoe Beach, turning right to the north, we find the customary tangle of plastic and wrack. For variety we decide to head south across Kehoe Creek, flowing out...

PPC member and advisory board member Beth Terry, author of the popular blog about plastic-free living FakePlasticFish, just published an excellent article on Dianna Cohen, cofounder and executive board member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition. Trained at UCLA, Dianna Cohen has been making art with plastic bags for over 20 years. Along this personal and artistic journey, Dianna’s own relation...