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The giant sculptures of marine animals at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas are all made from...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN:\u003cbr/\u003e              A new family of sea creatures has joined an aquarium in New Orleans - and it's entirely made of plastic.\u003cbr/\u003e              The giant sculptures of marine animals at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas are all made from plastic waste found washed up on beaches. \u003cbr/\u003e              Among them is a great white shark made partly of bottle caps and beach toys and a jellyfish made mostly of cut-up water bottles.\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              The underwater tunnel at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans brings visitors right into the underwater world of the planet's oceans. \u003cbr/\u003e              And in addition to the splendid array of sealife to be gazed at - there's also this - plastic waste - something that is set to outnumber fish and marine life in our oceans in the next 50 years according to conservationists.  \u003cbr/\u003e              This giant sculpture of a marlin fish has been created from plastic rubbish that has washed up on beaches around the Pacific Coast.  It's part of an exhibition within the aquarium called Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"So, we're very excited about the Washed Ashore exhibits, because, two things: one, it's entertainment, because obviously when you look at this, there's so much to look at – and we're going to create some fun games with that – but the second thing that's really most important is, this is all garbage that washed up on the Pacific Coast in one area that they picked up. So, as an aquarium, conservation is our big issue, and we need people to know that healthy oceans means no plastics,\" says Brenda Walkenhorst the director of education projects for the aquarium. \u003cbr/\u003e              This great white shark is made up partly of bottle caps and beach toys. \u003cbr/\u003e              Walkenhorst hopes the exhibition will make people realize just how much plastic gets into the world's waterways, and from there into the ocean. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Maybe not everybody lives near the ocean, and we don't think about the effects of throwing a bottle of plastic in the trash can. It may not make it to an incinerator, in fact, most of it doesn't. It ends up washing out into our waterways and into the ocean,\" she says. \u003cbr/\u003e              The sculptures are the creation of Angela Haseltine Pozzi, who started making the pieces after seeing plastic heaped by the waves onto the Oregon coast. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I wanted it to be beautiful from a distance, and then horrifying and a real wake-up call when you get up close,\" she says. \u003cbr/\u003e              Pozzi says humans need to rethink their use of plastics – especially plastic items that are only used once and thrown away, including cups and straws.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The majority of plastics that are being produced now are used once and thrown away, about 60 percent of everything that we buy is only used once and thrown away, which is -  shows you the kind of rethinking we need to do.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Pozzi has an army of volunteers - about 10,000 since she started in 2010 - who help her collect, prepare and assemble the beach trash into art. \u003cbr/\u003e              One of Pozzi's major conservation concerns is the great white shark. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I wanted to really show the beauty and the importance of great white sharks and also raise awareness about how they're really threatened,\" she says. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Her top teeth are actually made of toilet seats that I chopped and carved. And, her bottom teeth is a big PVC pipe that we cut up to get the curve, a little curve on those teeth.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              There's also a walk-through whale ribcage made with bucket lids, bottles, buoys, and bait traps.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The whalebone ribcage is one of my favorites. We've made several of those, and that's really about walking through the center of it and getting that sense of these big beautiful creatures that are now eating so much plastic,\" says Pozzi. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The Baleen and the feeders, they just open their mouths and go through the water, and things are coming in without them purposely going after them, and that's scary.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Pozzi's artwork is already changing the perceptions towards rubbish of children who visit. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I never knew it was plastic. I thought it was some animal's bones,\" says visitor Sophie Marse.\u003cbr/\u003e              The artist and volunteers have collected 21 tons of debris so far and turned them into more than 70 pieces of art.  Pozzi's work has been displayed at zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens, and she has permanent exhibits at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and a gallery in Bandon, Oregon.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Plastic pollution is something we can do something about,\" she said. \"It's not out of our reach. We can do something about it. We can look at our consumer habits. We can change our way of buying things. We can increase our use of recycling. We can change our products. It's not impossible,\" she says. \u003cbr/\u003e              The aquarium is currently showing six sculptures, and one is on display at the Audubon Zoo; more pieces will be added to both locations in October.\u003cbr/\u003e              Most are currently on display at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, including a river otter, a seahorse and a clownfish in an anemone.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              New Orleans, Louisiana – July 26, 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Visitors walking through Aquarium of the Americas\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Various shots of fish and jellyfish\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Pan shot of marlin fish sculpture made of plastic trash\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Zoom out of marlin fish sculpture made of plastic trash\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Close pan of marlin fish sculpture made of plastic trash\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Brenda Walkenhorst, Director of Education Projects,  Audubon Aquarium of the Americas:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So, we're very excited about the Washed Ashore exhibits, because, two things: one, it's entertainment, because obviously when you look at this, there's so much to look at – and we're going to create some fun games with that – but the second thDirector of Education Projects,  Audubon Aquarium of the Americas:ing that's really most important is, this is all garbage that washed up on the Pacific Coast in one area that they picked up. So, as an aquarium, conservation is our big issue, and we need people to know that healthy oceans means no plastics.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Various shots of plastic items on shark sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Woman and son taking pictures by shark sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Various close up of shots of plastic items on shark sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Brenda Walkenhorst, Director of Education Projects,  Audubon Aquarium of the Americas:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Maybe not everybody lives near the ocean, and we don't think about the effects of throwing a bottle of plastic in the trash can. It may not make it to an incinerator, in fact, most of it doesn't. It ends up washing out into our waterways and into the ocean.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Various shots of jellyfish sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Haseltine Pozzi/Washed Ashore Founder and Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I wanted it to be beautiful from a distance, and then horrifying and a real wake-up call when you get up close.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Various shots of marlin fish sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Haseltine Pozzi/Washed Ashore Founder and Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The majority of plastics that are being produced now are used once and thrown away, about 60 percent of everything that we buy is only used once and thrown away, which is – shows you the kind of rethinking we need to do.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Various shots of aquarium sea life\u003cbr/\u003e              16. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Haseltine Pozzi/Washed Ashore Founder and Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I wanted to really show the beauty and the importance of great white sharks and also raise awareness about how they're really threatened.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Various of shark sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e              18. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Haseltine Pozzi/Washed Ashore Founder and Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Her top teeth are actually made of toilet seats that I chopped and carved. And, uh, her bottom teeth is a big PVC pipe that we cut up to get the curve, a little curve on those teeth.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Various of shark sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e              20. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Haseltine Pozzi/Washed Ashore Founder and Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The whalebone ribcage is one of my favorites. Uh, we've made several of those, and that's really about walking through the center of it and getting that sense of these big beautiful creatures that are now eating so much plastic.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Various of whale bone ribcage sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e              22. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Haseltine Pozzi/Washed Ashore Founder and Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"You know, the Baleen and the feeders, they just open their mouths and go through the water, and things are coming in without them purposely going after them, and that's scary.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              23. Various of whale bone ribcage sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e              24. SOUNDBITE (English) Sophie Marse (left, bow in hair) and Leyna McIvor (right, pink shirt)/Aquarium Visitors:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I never knew it was plastic. I thought it was some animal's bones.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              25. Friends Sophie Marse and Leyna McIvor walking through whale bone ribcage sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e              26. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Haseltine Pozzi/Washed Ashore Founder and Artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Plastic pollution is something we can do something about. It's not out of our reach. We can do something about it. We can look at our consumer habits. We can change our way of buying things. We can increase our use of recycling. We can change our products. It's not impossible.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              27. 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