Art From the Sea: Giant Sculptures Crafted From Beach Waste Exhibit Value of Recycling

Sea pollution has long been a problem worldwide, as big and small debris swim aimlessly on the ocean. From metal, plastic to rubber debris, these things destroy not just the beautiful scenery beaches have, but marine creatures depending on them.

Viral Nova cites instance when one thinks that just one or two pieces of plastic garbage floating on the sea won't affect the entire ocean because of its vastness. However, these little pieces accumulate, resulting to a very serious environmental problem.

Fortunately, Oregon-based organization "Washed Ashore," founded by environmentalist-artist Angela Haseltine Pozzi, created the "Art to Save the Sea" Project. This cause plans to educate and stimulate awareness on ocean debris, plastic pollution and their negative effects on marine life species, Space Coast Daily reported.

The project creates life-size figures made of plastic materials found in seas and shores -- discarded material also called "beach waste." Their creations are living proofs that the society are overusing plastic materials, leaving them anywhere they like -- even in the ocean, Bored Panda noted.

A "Tiger Shark" and "Roxy Mermaid" have been made from these scraps. The group collects plastic trash from beaches and uses them to build large-scale sculptures of sea life, to show the creatures affected by the worsening pollution.

They hope that these carvings can become eye-openers for the many, and for communities to see the real extent of such environmental problem. It's easy to point that sea garbage are too many they can actually make for a sculpture museum.

From colored toys, colorful slippers and pieces of glass, they built a huge starfish. They, too, found petroleum-based garbage, like plastic, netting, and rope.

And surprisingly, very gigantic debris made of plastic were used to build an octopus, and a number of plastic bottles were taken for the jelly fish. They all look nice and clever, but when one ponders, it's quite sickening to find out that all these material once floated freely along the sea.

And that sea was probably just a fraction of the vast ocean.

These are just things these people managed to pull out of the water, but concerning the amount of garbage that remain to rest deep in the ocean floor, as well as those in other untapped areas, one is yet to find out.