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3:01Now PlayingArtist David Day turns marine waste into artworks. He explains his process below...
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"Everyday I go to my local beach and while I'm there I pick up bottle lids, bits of rope, rubber thongs and a variety of different plastics.
Most of the time all this rubbish I’m collecting would ultimately end up in landfill. What I’m trying to do is reduce landfill plus create awareness about all this rubbish that’s ending up in our oceans because it’s effecting our marine creatures that live there.
The rubbish I mainly find is bottle lids, cigarette lighters, toothbrushes and lots of plastic. Weather this debris is coming from our shores or from somewhere else I’m not sure but I know one thing, it’s ending up on our beaches and people like me are the ones picking it up.
Once you start picking up marine debris off the beach it becomes hard to walk past. It’s a good feeling when you pick something up that shouldn’t be there and leave it like nature intended.
The challenge is turning a piece of rubbish that is considered worthless by our society and turning it into a piece of art that has some value.
I’ll pick up a buoy or piece of plastic and I’ll think, that looks like the nose of a certain fish or the teeth of something or the head of a pelican and it just goes from there.
I’ve made over 40 pieces so far, turtles, stingrays, manta rays and fish. Some pieces are purely made out of thongs others made out of mixed marine debris.
The big sea turtle was made out of over 60 thongs and other bits of plastics found on my local beach.
The thing I like about this turtle is on the underside it has ropes, plastics bags, fishing line and different materials that the turtles actually eat and because of their digestive system these plastics are a real problem for them.
If someone is admiring one of my art pieces I’d like to think that they're reflecting on the ocean and maybe what they could do to help improve the conditions of their nearby waterways.
I don’t think the rubbish will ever stop going in the ocean but the more people that are aware of it and the more people that pick it up will obviously reduce the amount that remains in the ocean.
Because if no one picked anything up and left it there all your going to end up with is an ocean of rubbish."
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