<h5>Awareness (art + participation)</h5>

Our International Plastic Quilt Project is a traveling community art project of squares made from single-use plastic contributed by students, artists, and many others.  Inspired by the massive success of the Names Project Aids Memorial Quilt, it promotes awareness and solutions to single-use disposable plastic items, and funds research into projects that provide meaningful, systemic solutions to the problem. Read more…

 

 

<h6>SOLUTIONS (make it easier to reduce & reuse)</h6>

In its infancy, our Yellow Shelf Project (so green it’s yellow!) can take any shape. To begin with: Home Cleaning Supplies and Personal Care Products — we pay too much for commercial cleaning products (even the green ones), both financially and environmentally with packaging and unnecessary chemicals. Learn more…

Viral Video Valentine Countdown

CHOKING HAZARD, a collaboration between Create Plenty and animator Joanna Priestley and co-sponsored by SCRAP and Surfrider Foundation, Portland Chapter, is a minute-long video that will be launched online on February 14th. The piece is described as a “whirlwind tour of best intentions gone awry in the recycling of plastic”. Read More…