Sentence examples for plastic detritus from inspiring English sources

His early works were installations made of found materials, like the plastic detritus of domestic goods.

One is a patch of grass outside B&Q currently populated by lager cans, pigeons and plastic detritus, while another is a simple set of steps.

Smaller forms of plastic detritus – such as nurdles, used in injection moulding – dangerously resemble fish eggs and are harder to stop entering the environment.

But it is not the only place where a system of rotating ocean currents, known as gyres, concentrate floating material, particularly plastic detritus dumped into the sea or washed out from rivers.

I rowed out fast, and as I emerged by the squalid Second, littered with plastic detritus in medicinal shades of green and pink, I saw another island, about a mile away, its rolling, sunlit meadows rising, mirage-like, from the water.

The tideline is strewn with plastic detritus (the wardens play high-tide challenge, daring to eat washed up packs of Hula-Hoops) and the newest incursion is a windfarm on the horizon: at night, its lights create a city on the water where once there was darkness.

Not that you necessarily need to know, but her materials are discarded gillnets, ropes and plastics, the detritus of industrial man and consumption.

Castoff plastic discs, the detritus of digital replication, litter the muddy ground like seashells.

And then there's the so-called Philadelphia Wireman, the unidentified creator of gnarly, palm-size sculptures consisting of pieces of paper, plastic and metal detritus bundled up in wire.

These works signaled a slight departure from my more recognizable assemblage works, in which I used plastics and other detritus collected from the Eastern seaboard.

Plastic binders hold the detritus.