SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Parks full of plastic leftovers have popped up all over the Bay Area, like Presidio Heights Playground in San Francisco, where dropping off used toys has become a simple ...

An Environmentalist, Doyinsola Ogunye stands in front of a heap of footwear picked from the shore at the beach in Lagos LAGOS (Reuters) - The sight of discarded plastic bottles and bags floating in ...

Mourners gather around the coffin at a performance of artist Anne-Katrin Spiess' "Death by Plastic" in front of South Station. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Environmental activists gathered in front of South ...

While other artists might use watercolors or oil paints, Mbongeni Buthelezi uses waste plastics to create highly textured portraits at his studio in Booysens, Johannesburg. His medium is the plastic ...

Dutch artist Madeleine Berkhemer began making sculptures from stockings in 1997, using up to 1,000 pairs of pantyhose to make each of her taut, ethereal pieces. Initially, she didn’t worry about the ...

This story will be featured in our SacramenKnow newsletter. Sign up to get updates about what’s happening in the region in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. With a $20 panini press she got off ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A grocery store featuring thousands of faux food items made entirely from discarded plastic bags opens Tuesday to the public, an artist’s non-edible creation calling attention to ...

Pam Longobardi, commission for the cover of ‘Sierra’ magazine (2014) (all images courtesy the artist) Plastic has become a material of unique conceptual and physical importance to our society, and the ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A grocery store featuring thousands of faux food items made entirely from discarded plastic bags is now open to the public, an artist’s nonedible creation calling attention to the ...

Three years ago, creator Burls Art released a video documenting the building of his first guitar, which featured a body made from 1,200 colored pencils. The video went viral and more impressive builds ...

Brazilian artist Eduardo Srur reproduces works by renowned masters without using a drop of paint – just recycled shreds of plastic picked up from city streets and rivers. For his latest exhibition, he ...