A Call For Clean Oceans

These sculptures are a call for clean oceans.

- Gail Skroback Hennessey

Angela Haseltine Pozzi didn’t like seeing plastic trash washing up on the shore near her home in Bandon, Oregon. She wanted to rally her community to clean it up, so she started an organization and called it Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea.

Here’s how it works: Volunteers help clean up Oregon’s 300 miles of shoreline. Then, using only plastics from the beach cleanup, Ms. Pozzi and her staff and many, many volunteers create sculptures of sea animals.

Ms. Pozzi says, “I want to create sculptures that make people take a look and think, ‘How can there be this much trash on the beach?’ The Washed Ashore sculptures, hopefully, will make people consider their plastic purchases and be aware of how so much plastic ends up in the oceans.”