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Watch: How a new artwork led to a breakthrough in recycling plastics

There’s a story behind these 2000-odd orange spheres. And it might just change the way we handle marine debris.

Watch: How a new artwork led to a breakthrough in recycling plastics

Wasteland by artist Mundane Matters is made from 120kg of ocean trash collected in the Whitsundays. Learn more about how it came to be.

The artwork is part of Art & About Sydney.

Published 25 October 2018, updated 14 February 2024

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