In October 2021, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their third in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry. Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that mashes up an educational workshop on the realities of recycling and plastic pollution with community/beach cleanups, public art, and poetry.
The text was written by Sebastian, a student from Brucie Ball Educational Center during a 2021 workshop series, Poetry & Gardening—a four-part climate justice-focused workshop combining elements of poetry, painting, storytelling, and ecology.
The five-inch letters are rendered in 18.06 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from a beach cleanup held at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center on June 26, 2021.