Plastic Ocean 001 33 x 11 x 1 inches. Unrecyclable plastic and pollution in epoxy. Plastic Ocean 001 is the first in a new series of artwork by the team at Free Plastic. Mulched unrecyclable plastics & plastic pollution from … Read More
World Record Cleanup & Some World Record Plastics
This week you may have seen headlines like this one “633 divers collect over 1,500 pounds of trash at a Florida beach — and set a world record“. Deerfield Beach held that cleanup, and that south Florida beach & pier … Read More
Free Plastic’s New River Table
Our latest project was to manufacture a River Table — part reclaimed pallet wood, part tinted epoxy, and part unrecyclable plastic pollution farmed from the beaches at Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park. This prototype used 79 grams of … Read More
Baking Plastic Tiles from Ocean Plastic
Our small batch baking system is working, and after a few quick cuts and passes through the planer, we have a usable material to construct objects out of. This our second attempt: a 3” x 6” x 5/8” plastic tile … Read More
Key Challenge Trophies
Each year the Key Biscayne Citizen Scientist Project’s Key Challenge engages the schools in and near Key Biscayne to increase their students’ appreciation and knowledge of Key Biscayne’s & Biscayne Bay’s natural resources. At the end of the year long … Read More
Free Plastic Stickers!
Love plastering your bucket with stickers? Want your laptop covered in stickers? How about your bumper? Need more stickers? Well we have some good news, Free Plastic has stickers for you!! Send us a SASE (self addressed stamped envelope), and … Read More
One fish, two fish, plaster fish, post-consumer-single-use-plastic fish
Our first experiment was with a small plaster fish. Our thought was to create a decorative object that would be of value to someone, and that would be a vessel for plastics that could not (or would not) be recycled … Read More
Free Plastic is on Instagram
Hi!!! We started on Instagram before we started building our site. You can check us out, follow us, and chat with us over at @freeplasticorg This was our first post: Free Plastic 101: Making a Trophy Step 1: Farm plastics from … Read More