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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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At the Our Plastic Waters opening reception, Rosemary Demartino, the mother of the featured artist Lisa Bagwell, speaks to Raíces Cultural Center Director Francisco G. Gómez. The Water Is Life coloring pages on display in the exhibit were colored by…

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A Rutgers exchange student from China expressed that he had never seen anything like the amount of garbage that was strewn along the Raritan River waterfront during the clean up portion of the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop.

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Student volunteer cleaning along the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative.

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Turkey made out of recycled presciption pill bottles, corks and other plastic waste by artist Lisa Bagwell at the Our Plastic Waters exhibit during the Water Is Life exhibit series.

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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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Raíces EcoCulture Intern Kira Herzog finds a full bottle of soda amongst the plastic bottle debris along the Raritan River during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop and river clean up.

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Student volunteers from the Highland Park High School Environmental Club took part in the Our Plastic Waters cleanup and eco-art workshop during the Water Is Life initiative.

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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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Volunteers sorting litter cleaned from the Raritan River waterfront during the Our Plastic Waters clean up and eco-art workshop.

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Snail made out of plastic waste by artist Lisa Bagwell at the Our Plastic Waters exhibit during the Water Is Life exhibit series.

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Shells made out of plastic waste by artist Lisa Bagwell at the Our Plastic Waters exhibit during the Water Is Life exhibit series.

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Seagull made out of plastic waste by artist Lisa Bagwell at the Our Plastic Waters exhibit during the Water Is Life exhibit series.

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Program participant creating forms to stuff with smaller pieces of litter to add fins to his River Fish sculpture.

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Student volunteer cleaning plastic litter in a wooded section along the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative.

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One of the River Fish sculptures made out of trash collected along the banks of the Raritan River taking shape during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop.

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Blank Space Highland Park became the temporary home for the River Fish sculptures made during the Our Plastic Waters clean-up and eco-art workshop with artist Lisa Bagwell. The community made sculptures remained on display for a full year before they…

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This River Fish sculpture made by artist Lisa Bagwell served as an example for program participants in the the Our Plastic Waters river clean up and eco-art workshop when they sculpted three additional River Fish sculptures made from the garbage…

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Student volunteers pulling plastic pollution out of a feeder stream along the banks of the Raritan River.

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Volunteer cleaning the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative.

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

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Plastic pollution along the Raritan River waterfront, collected by volunteers during the Our Plastic Waters clean up and eco-art workshop as part of the Water Is Life initiative.

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A variety of disposable plastics were collected during the river cleanp portion of the Our Plastic Waters program and then later used to create eco-art meant to bring awareness to the problem of pollution in the waterways.

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There was no shortage of plastic pollution to be collected during the Our Plastic Waters river clean up and eco-art workshop.
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