Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Volunteers
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Raíces Cultural Center director Francisco G. Gómez with a group of volunteers preparing to participate in a cleanup of a quarter mile stretch of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters cleanup and ecoart workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
Francisco G. Gómez
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Raritan River Cleanup
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Volunteer cleaning the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Raritan River Pollution
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Plastic pollution floating in the Raritan River.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Cleaning Up
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Volunteer cleaning along the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Student Volunteers
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
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.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Cleaning the Waterfront
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Middlesex County Conservation Corps coordinator Griffith Boyd helped with the logistics of the Our Plastic Waters cleanup along the Raritan River waterfront during the Water Is Life initiative.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
Griffith Boyd
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Volunteering
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
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.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Collecting Garbage/Art Materials
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Volunteers cleaning a quarter mile stretch of the Raritan River waterfront as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative. After the cleanup garbage collected was sorted and transformed into eco-art sculptures.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
Joyce M., Griffith Boyd
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Our Plastic World
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Raíces EcoCulture Intern Kira Herzog visibly disappointed at how our community's disposable and single-use plastic ends up in our waterways.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
Kira Herzog
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Plastic Pollution
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Plastic pollution in a section of woods along the Raritan River waterfront, collected by volunteers during the Our Plastic Waters clean up and eco-art workshop.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Riverfront Clean Up
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
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.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Pollution
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
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.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Litter
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Litter in Johnson Park, along the Raritan River waterfront, collected by volunteers during the Our Plastic Waters clean up and eco-art workshop.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Plastic Bag Pollution
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Plastic bag caught in a bush along the Raritan River waterfront, collected by volunteers during the Our Plastic Waters clean up and eco-art workshop.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Our Plastic Waters
"Ecology projects
Community arts projects"
Plastic pollution floating in the Raritan River, collected by volunteers during the Our Plastic Waters clean up and eco-art workshop.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Lady Liberty Litter
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Statue of Liberty image printed on some of the litter collected during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop and riverfront clean up.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Plastic Bottles
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Plastic bottles were strewn throughout all of the wooded areas along the Raritan River waterfront section volunteers worked to clean up during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Plastic Pollution
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
There was no shortage of plastic pollution to be collected during the Our Plastic Waters river clean up and eco-art workshop.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Throw Away Consumerism
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
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.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
Kira Herzog
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Volunteering
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
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.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Our Plastic Waters - River Clean Up
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Volunteer cleaning along the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop during the Water Is Life Initiative.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Lisa Bagwell - "Garbage Artist"
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Artist and workshop leader Lisa Bagwell, who designs sculptures out of garbage, carries bags of litter collected during the Our Plastic Waters clean up out of the wooded areas along the Raritan River.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
Lisa Bagwell
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
River Clean Up
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Student volunteers pulling plastic pollution out of a feeder stream along the banks of the Raritan River.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Cleaning the Raritan
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
Student volunteers going the extra mile to remove plastic pollution out of a feeder stream along the banks of the Raritan River.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA
Cleaning Pollution, Collecting Art Materials
Ecology projects
Community arts projects
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.
Nicole Wines
10-07-2017
Francisco G. Gómez
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Collection: Water Is Life</a></span>
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Highland Park, NJ, USA