The Role of Art in Addressing Ocean Plastic Waste and Marine Life

This report examines the critical issue of ocean plastic waste and its devastating impact on marine life. It proposes the innovative use of art as a restorative method, highlighting projects like the Washed Ashore Project, where plastic waste is transformed into sculptures to raise awareness and inspire action. The report details the sources of plastic pollution, its effects on marine animals, and the urgency of finding solutions. The proposed restoration method involves collecting plastic waste, recycling it, and utilizing it to create art, which will be displayed to educate the public about the problem. The report emphasizes the importance of reducing plastic consumption, the role of artists in creating awareness, and the potential for a significant positive impact on marine ecosystems. The project has a timeline of 5 months for implementation, encompassing waste collection and the creation of art installations. The report emphasizes the need for a multifaceted approach to tackle plastic pollution, including both individual action and large-scale initiatives.

Examples of restoration method
chosenThe role of plastic items in the day by day lives of individuals everywhere
throughout the world is relentless. For those living on the coasts, a simple stroll
on the sea shore can give anybody understanding into how stunning our
dependence on plastic has become as jugs, jars, packs, covers and straws are
ever-present. Tragically, an over-whelming measure of plastic contamination is
not even obvious to the human eye, with a significant part of the contamination
happening out adrift or on an infinitesimal level (Rochamn, 2016). The fleeting
utilization of a large number of plastic is, essentially, unreasonable and risky.
Separate examinations from 2013 propose upwards of 50 percent of sea turtles
are ingesting plastic at an extraordinary rate, and die as a result of it. In the same
way as other marine creatures, sea turtles ingest plastic waste for a feasible
nourishment source, once in a while causing blockages in their stomach. Plastic
pressing groups and elastic groups keep on profoundly sway the Stellar Sea Lion
populace. An eight-year examination in Southeast Alaska and British Columbia
recorded 388 ocean lions caught in plastic debris. Like other marine warm
blooded animals, whales regularly confuse marine debris with a potential
nourishment source. In certain species, like that of the albatross, the whales’
mouth is so enormous it unwittingly gets plastic debris. Fish, seabirds, sea
turtles, and marine warm blooded creatures can get ensnared in or ingest plastic
debris, causing suffocation, starvation, and suffocating (Jambeck et al., 2015).
Plastic waste kills up to a million seabirds per year. Similarly as with ocean
turtles, when seabirds ingest plastic, it occupies space in their stomachs, causing
starvation.
S c e n a r i o a n d I m p o r t a n c e
The end goal of the restoration that is being outlined here is the reduction in the
amount of waste that is generated by us, humans and the negative impacts that it
is having on the marine life. Animals are being dead and washed ashore due to
the harmful consumption of plastic that they mistake for food sources. By the
restorative method, the waste generated could be translated into a form of art to
make the people aware of the harmful effects of plastic being dumped in the
water
The required time frame for the execution of the restoration method is 5 months.
Firstly, the plastic waste will be lifted from the sea shore and transformed into
reusable form such that art sculptures can be created.
Restoration Method End Goal and Time Frame
It's an issue that is just developing as plastic utilization ascends in nations all
over the place and it represents a significant danger to marine life. At that point
there are the craftsmen, who see the grime of sea squander as an open door for
magnificence. Through the transformative intensity of craftsmanship,
individuals are carrying attention to the issue of plastic waste in provocative
and beguiling manners.
Washed Ashore gathers waste that has been assembled by community cleaning
endeavors along sea shores. The waste is then cleaned, sorted and prepared,
and afterward a craftsman thinks about a model that brings out marine life and
utilizes a lot of plastic. Since the association's dispatch in 2010, their group has
helped clean in excess of 300 miles of sea shore (Chung & Brown, 2018).
Plastic bags are universal and to pass on the sheer size of their essence on the
planet, Pascale Marthine Tayou made an enormous, bullet like art-form of
plastic bags. The numerous shades of the packs propose something
carnivalesque and happy, yet the worn out material of the bags breaks that
fantasy. The plastic bags, which are frequently disposed of and wind up
floating through the world, are additionally proposed to infer homelessness,
there is no home for plastic in nature.
One of the most useful restorative methods to get rid of the plastic waste in the
ocean is to turn that into art. Yes. You read that right. What better than display your
creativity from the enormous amount of waste that is generated by us, humans into
a sculpture form of art? Each year or more precisely, month, there are gigantic
amount of wastes that are being collected from the oceans which, obviously harm
the marine life. Hence, to help in the restoration of the marine equilibrium, it is
essential for us to deduce methods to restore it. Hence, recycling the plastics
generated in an industry will ensure that recycled plastic is created. It is with this
form of plastic that artists over the country and the world can utilize to create
different forms of art for the display in front of the beaches (Helmreich & Jones,
2018). It will help in generating awareness among the people about the amount of
plastic that is dumped in ocean and help is successful restoration of marine life. The
artists from all over the world can come together and display one-of-a-kind
sculptures related to marine life or other things to make the people aware of the
treat that marine life is currently experiencing.
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