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In spring of 2009, artists Anna Boggon and Munir Waked held their second plastic arts project workshop with 4 � 5 year olds at St Anselms Catholic Primary School, Southall, London.
Melanie Salmon arrived in the morning with
fresh fish and talked to the class about plastic pollution in the sea. Despite
the young age the reception class proved that you are never too young to learn
about fish and the negative impact of plastic in the ocean. The children were
eager to feel, stroke and hold the different fish, including plaice, sea bream
and king prawns. After drawing the fish the children set about making
sculptures using plastic that had been collected by the school. Milk bottles
and sweet wrappers were most in abundance and a celloptape dispenser proved
indispensable. Bottles were stuffed, covered and adorned to make fish of all
shapes and sizes.
Thanks to Sadie. St Anslems Reception Class
and Creativity Matters, University of the Arts London.
Prior to this Anna Boggon and
Jordan McKenzie introduced the project to Brentside
Primary School, Ealing, London. An idea was now under way to try to
accumulate hundreds of fish for a large scale installation in 2010 in Central
London.
Thanks to Reception class 1 and 2 Brentside
Primary School, and Creativity Matters, University of the Arts London. |
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With the support of Global Ocean, Global Garbage and the Lighthouse Foundation, oceanographers from the University of Sao Paulo are working to create a Brazilian Marine Debris Monitoring Program. They are in the process of creating a legal entity called Project Marine Litter. This NGO will administrate the Brazilian Marine Debris Monitoring Program.
The project goals of the Marine Debris Project are to organise a diagnosis of marine debris on the Brazilian coast; to implement a Brazilian Marine Debris Monitoring Program; to raise research on the theme and to lead to discussion groups on marine debris to the relevant public administrative bodies. In addition, they are trying to establish partnerships with the Ministry of the Environment (Brazil) and UNEP (Regional Seas).
On 29 April 2009 there was a meeting in Brasilia at the Ministry of the Environment. The presentation of the project at the meeting of 30 April of GI-GERCO was reported to be excellent.
The oceanographers have now created a Study Group on Marine Litter where they will hold weekly meetings both at the Fishing Institute (Government of Sao Paulo State) in Santos and at the Institute of Oceanography of USP. They are also currently working on the content of the website of the Marine Litter Project.
The Marine Debris Project now has four reports, please click below to read them
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