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Student volunteers going the extra mile to remove plastic pollution out of a feeder stream along the banks of the Raritan River.

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Raíces Cultural Center director Francisco G. Gómez collects litter from along the banks of the Raritan River, later to be used as art materials for "garbage art" sculptures in the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop.

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The volunteer pictured here spent almost an hour cleaning this small section of stream that empties into the Raritan River.

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Volunteers and organizers sorting the collected garbage after the river clean up.

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Volunteers and program participants sort through garbage collected during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop to separate the materials that would be used as art supplies in the eco-art workshop from those which would be hauled away for the…

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Sorting garbage collected during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop to separate the materials that would be used for making sculptures from the garbage that would be hauled away for the landfill.

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Artist Lisa Bagwell observing volunteers sorting garbage collected during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop. Once sorted, the usable materials would be turned into eco-art sculptures.

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Volunteer sorting garbage collected during the Water Is Life Initiative "Our Plastic Waters" eco-art workshop Raritan River clean up. The garbage collected was later turned into eco-art sculptures by the program participants.

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In just three hours, along a quarter mile of Raritan River waterfront, there were truckloads of litter collected. Volunteers sorted the garbage to separate materials that chould then be made into sculptures.

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Dozens of bags of litter were collected along a quarter mile stretch of riverfront during the Our Plastic Waters river cleanup. After sorting, some of the garbage found and collected was used to create eco-art sculptures to display during the Water…

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Artist Lisa Bagwell works with Our Plastic Waters program participants to create forms for sculptures made from the garbage collected during the river clean up portion of the project.

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Program participants of the Our Plastic Waters event first volunteered to clean up a section of the banks of the Raritan River and then work with artist Lisa Bagwell to create community sculptures from the garbage collected in the clean up.

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Raíces EcoCulture Intern Kira Herzog works on the form for a sculpture made from river litter at the Our Plastic Waters eco-art project.

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Our Plastic Waters program participants making a fish sculpture out of garbage collected at a pre-workshop river clean up.

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Garbage collected during the Our Plastic Waters program in the pre-workshop river clean up. These plastic bottles were separated from the garbage collected during the clean up to be used as materials for a community eco-art sculpture project.

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Shot bottles collected during the river clean up portion of the Our Plastic Waters event. These were sorted out of the litter collected to use as materials for a community eco-art project.

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Artist Lisa Bagwell working with a Rutgers student and program participant to create a fish sculpture from garbage collected during the river clean up portion of the program.

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Volunteer and visual artist Joyce M. works with garbage collected during the Our Plastic Waters Raritan River clean up to turn it into usable art materials for a "garbage art" sculpture.

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Volunteer Christina Proxenos works on one of three "River Fish" sculptures created during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop.

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Volunteers creating eco-art sculptures at the Water Is Life "Our Plastic Waters" program.

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Participants in the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop create "River Fish" sculptures from litter collected along the banks of the Raritan River.

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Balls collected along a quarter mile stretch of the Raritan River waterfront to be used to build eco-art sculptures by Our Plastic Waters program participants.

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Glass bottles collected along a quarter mile stretch of the Raritan River waterfront to be used to build eco-art sculptures by Our Plastic Waters program participants.

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Cans collected along a quarter mile stretch of the Raritan River waterfront to be used to build eco-art sculptures by Our Plastic Waters program participants.

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Plastic bottles collected along a quarter mile stretch of the Raritan River waterfront to be used to build eco-art sculptures by Our Plastic Waters program participants.
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