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Waste collected from the city's waterfront by the ������Ƶ’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