The Plastic In Question

Five questions in search of an answer:

1. Where is away, as in throw-away?
2. Where did this come from?
3. How did it get here?
4. Was that once mine?
5. What to do about it?

Since 1999, Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang, as a collaborative team, have gathered plastic pollution from Kehoe Beach, a remote stretch of the Point Reyes National Seashore, carrying the plastic away by the bagful.  They combine their love of nature with their ineterest in science to produce an ongoing series of art works about the ocean and the environment.  Their project, One Beach Plastic, has been included in some 40 exhibitions including shows at the SFMOMA Artist Windows, Thoreau Center for Sustainability in San Francisco, the Cummings Gallery at Stanford University, the Bay Model in Sausalito, and the University of San Francisco.