The trash clogging Toronto's harbour has been turned into art: CTV News
(photo by Jack McCombe)
Published: July 21, 2023
Waste collected from the city's waterfront by the University of Toronto’s has been turned into a floating art installation intended to remind people about the pervasiveness of pollution.
The sculpture, called “Tangle,” – all wrapped in willow branches and invasive plants found in Lake Ontario. It can be viewed in the Harbourfront neighbourhood’s Peter Street Basin until September.
Created by Trash Team artist-in-residence Emily Chudnovsky, the work is designed to raise awareness of the waste we routinely see in our waterways.
“We produce so much waste as a global society,” Chudnovsky . “How can we use less material and how can we learn from the natural world, which has many different systems for filtering waste, repurposing waste and not producing waste?”
The U of T Trash Team is made up of undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, local volunteers and staff working in collaboration with Chelsea Rochman, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Arts & Science’s department of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Read more about the U of T Trash Team at U of T News
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