Digital subscriptions provided by the City of Gulfport THE GABBER.COM No. 2862
April 25, 2024- May 1, 2024
From Trash to Transformation According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, approximately 8 million metric tons of plastic have found their way into the world’s oceans since 2010. Some of it remains in massive floating patches, such as the spectacular Great Pacific Garbage vortex. But the real extent of the problem is hard to visualize, because much of the stray plastic sinks into the water column or degrades into tiny microplastics. We now find these microplastics in fish, drinking water, and, yes, even table salt. Artists at Eckerd College’s recent Used Once, Lasts Forever art show shared their visions of the plastic crisis earlier this month. Twenty-five 2-D, 3-D, electronic, and musical submissions spoke to — and were in many cases crafted from — single-use plastics. Below the Surface Sophomore Yarrow Bercovici-biotti, majoring in Environmental Studies, used cardboard, plastic packaging, and paint to capture the sleek forms of three sharks. Her work was inspired by a recent study abroad
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By Amanda Hagood
Eckerd College sophomore Yarrow Bercovici-biotti used cardboard and plastic waste to craft her contribution to the Used Once, Lasts Forever art show. She hopes to inspire others to make their own creative expressions about the plastic crisis.
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tangle of plastic waste inside – a reminder that that plastic problem is more than skin deep. “I wanted to inspire others with creative ways to reuse plastics,” Plastic continued on page 18
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