Each Piece of Trashed Plastic Can Find a New Life as Art

In one important way, grocery stores were very different during my childhood. Catsup was only packaged in glass bottles. Soda came in either aluminum cans or glass bottles, and there was no bottled water—no Fuji, Poland Spring, or Evian. Crackers were wrapped in waxed paper. Everything was bagged in paper. Now, some 30 years later, grocery stores are full of plastic. Nearly every product is plastic-wrapped, then toted away in plastic bags. 

Indeed, plastic production and consumption is seemingly ever soaring. single-use plastic water bottles in 2010, about triple.