#plastic awareness

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A new installation in England turns trash into illuminated art—and shones a spotlight on our damaged oceans.

[terramarproject]

In this Special Edition of Global Ocean TV, the official television channel of the world's ocean, The TerraMar Project sits down with fashion designer turned plastic activist Barbara de Vries.

Ten years ago, after noticing a considerable amount of beach plastic on the shores of Eleuthera, Bahamas, Barbara became an ocean plastic pollution activist and used her connections and design experience to raise awareness of the problems of plastic in the oceans by founding a company called Plastic is Forever. She promotes incorporating beach plastic as a design material through community outreach and workshops in the Caribbean Islands, speaks at related events and designs product for co-branded collections. In 2015 she received the Dutch American Heritage Award for her contributions to the environment.