It’s just me in the living room — me, a giant box ... Yes, those are plastic and don’t work, but it’s a start. Sabrina Shankman can be reached at [email protected].

In artist Beverly Barkat hands, discarded plastic bags, bottles and cups transformed into stained glass-like pieces that she fused together to create a giant globe. Her stunning yet jarring ...

Our coastline, oceans, rivers and bays are swimming with plastic ... oil giant that, beginning in the 1980s, made continual efforts to protect its profits while plastics polluted the globe ...