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Plastic pollution and environmental education through artwork

This study explores how upcycling discarded plastics into artwork can serve as a tool for environmental education about plastic pollution. Researchers describe an art installation collaboration that brought together the art world and environmental advocacy to raise public awareness. The study suggests that creative approaches to reusing plastic waste can effectively engage communities in understanding the scale and consequences of plastic pollution.

2024 Cambridge Prisms Plastics 2 citations
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The Art of (Up)Recycling: How Plastic Debris Has Become a Matter of Art?

This art and culture paper examines how contemporary artists have used plastic waste as a medium, exploring how art can communicate environmental concerns about plastic pollution to the public. The work documents artistic responses to the global plastic crisis. While not a scientific study, art-based approaches are relevant to raising public awareness about microplastic contamination and motivating behavioral change.

2021 Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research 3 citations
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Plastic waste micro-management towards innovative sustainable living in inspiring art practice

This paper is not directly about microplastic science; it describes a participatory art project in a Malaysian village where artists and communities collaborated to manage plastic waste and raise awareness about plastic pollution through sustainable art practices.

2023 International Journal of Asian Social Science 1 citations
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Pelatihan Pemanfaatan Limbah Plastik Menjadi Berbagai Kreasi Daur Ulang Bagi Masyarakat Desa Penyak

This Indonesian community program trained residents of the Bangka Belitung Islands to repurpose plastic waste into recycled crafts, reducing the amount of plastic that enters coastal environments and eventually breaks down into microplastics. Community-based plastic waste management is an important grassroots strategy for reducing marine microplastic pollution.

2021 Journal of Approriate Technology for Community Services 5 citations
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Karya Seni Instalasi dan Grafiti (Instagraf) yang Ramah Lingkungan Sebagai Media Alternatif Promosi Luar Ruang

This art project describes the creation of installation art and graffiti using only organic, biodegradable materials as an alternative to conventional plastic banner advertising. The project promotes environmental awareness about plastic waste by demonstrating that outdoor media can be produced without plastic materials, though it does not directly address microplastic research.

2023 Urban Jurnal Seni Urban
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Upcycling plastic waste through empirical implementation of large-scale 3D printing

This design research project explored large-scale 3D printing as a method for upcycling waste plastic into usable products, addressing the quality concerns that have limited plastic recycling adoption. While focused on waste reduction rather than microplastics specifically, reducing plastic waste helps prevent the breakdown of plastics into microplastics.

2020
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Utilization of plastic waste using the ecobrick method in Nagari Tanjung

Researchers worked with a community in Indonesia to address waste pollution by introducing the ecobrick method — packing non-recyclable plastics into plastic bottles to create building materials. The project provided an alternative to the community practice of dumping or burning waste near rivers.

2025 Priviet Social Sciences Journal
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Mapping mismanaged plastic waste in Indonesia: subdistrict-level analysis through material flow from sources to the environment

Researchers found that Indonesia produces over 9 million tons of plastic waste each year, with more than 1 million tons ending up directly in rivers, drains, and illegally dumped on land. This mismanaged plastic waste breaks down into tiny particles called microplastics that can contaminate drinking water and food sources, potentially affecting human health. The study helps identify pollution hotspots where better waste management could reduce plastic entering the environment and our bodies.

2026 Scientific Reports
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Eco-Art and Reeling in Anthropogenic Adversity

This paper explores how eco-art practices can raise awareness of anthropogenic pollution, including microplastics, by engaging communities through creative and visual approaches. The authors argue that artistic interventions can complement scientific communication in addressing environmental adversity.

2024 1 citations
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“The Rejected Remains as Fact”

This paper explores how contemporary artists are responding to the pervasive presence of microplastics and nanoplastics through visual and performative works. Researchers examine how art projects have shifted from environmental alarm toward speculative scenarios of plastic-human coexistence, drawing on the concept of the plastisphere. The study suggests that artistic investigations can reframe our understanding of plastic pollution by exploring cultural and material dimensions beyond purely scientific perspectives.

2026
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Prototype of a marine animal sculpture from plastic waste: Role in promoting the image of Thai tourism

Researchers designed and created a prototype marine animal sculpture from collected plastic waste for installation at Cha-am Beach in Thailand, using art as a strategy to communicate the dangers of marine plastic pollution and microplastic contamination to the public. The project aims to promote environmental awareness and support Thailand's tourism image through creative conservation messaging.

2025 Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies
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Plastic Marine Waste and its Potential for Indonesian Indigenous Communities

This article explores the potential for Indonesian indigenous communities to play a role in addressing marine plastic waste, combining traditional ecological knowledge with waste management strategies. It highlights cultural and governance dimensions of plastic pollution responses in coastal Indonesia.

2020 eTropic electronic journal of studies in the tropics 20 citations
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From Trash to Fashion: Understanding Wearable Art as Environmental Activism

This paper examines wearable art projects that incorporate plastic waste as a form of environmental activism and material rhetoric, arguing that fashioning trash into garments makes ecological crises tangible and challenges consumer culture through aesthetic engagement.

2025 Spectrum of art.
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Improving residential plastic waste management strategies for increasing value added to environmental sustainability

Researchers surveyed community awareness and behavior regarding plastic waste management in an Indonesian village, identifying gaps between knowledge and practice. Improving community engagement with proper plastic waste disposal is essential for reducing the plastic entering waterways and eventually becoming microplastics.

2023 E3S Web of Conferences
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Pelatihan Daur Ulang Sampah Botol Plastik Sebagai Media Pembelajaran Pengelolaan Sampah Dan Kreativitas

Researchers conducted plastic bottle recycling training for elementary school students in Indonesia to increase knowledge of plastic waste management and develop creativity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The program successfully improved participants' understanding of recycling practices and was supported by parental involvement and strong participant motivation.

2022 Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat - PIMAS 10 citations
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Exploration of Interior Material Based on Plastic Waste

Researchers explored the potential for plastic waste to be transformed into interior design materials, using observation, interviews, and documentation methods to analyze the process from material collection through fabrication. The study characterized the physical and chemical properties of plastic waste relevant to its use as an interior material and assessed structural strength alongside its environmental risks.

2022 Proceeding of International Conference on Business Economics Social Sciences and Humanities 1 citations
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Keberadaan Plastik di Lingkungan, Bahaya terhadap Kesehatan Manusia, dan Upaya Mitigasi: Studi Literatur

This Indonesian-language literature review examined microplastic presence in the environment, summarizing health risks to humans from microplastic exposure through food and water, the environmental fate of plastic particles, and mitigation strategies including the 3Rs and material substitution to reduce plastic waste pollution.

2021 Jurnal Serambi Engineering 14 citations
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Waste Journeys

This multidisciplinary study examined plastic waste as a material of the Anthropocene by tracing the journeys of plastic objects across cultural, natural, marine, and terrestrial landscapes, exploring how plastic's resilience makes it a defining and problematic artifact of modern civilization.

2023 Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 4 citations
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Designing motion graphics as a zero waste lifestyle campaign media for the Indonesian people

Researchers developed motion graphics as a campaign medium to promote zero-waste lifestyles among Indonesian people, responding to the surge in plastic waste resulting from COVID-19 social restrictions and increased online commerce. The study examined plastic waste impacts on the Gorontalo coastal ecosystem and designed visual communication materials to raise awareness about microplastic pollution entering the food chain.

2022 IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 2 citations
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Pemberdayaan masyarakat dalam pengelolaan sampah plastik bernilai jual

This paper (in Indonesian) describes a community empowerment program in a village in East Java helping residents manage and find economic value in plastic waste. The program is a grassroots approach to reducing plastic pollution by turning waste into a resource.

2020 Journal Community Development and Society 1 citations
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Efforts to Increase Public Awareness About Microplastic Hazards in Communities at the Coastal Beach of Padang

Community outreach activities in Padang, Indonesia, aimed to raise public awareness about the hazards of microplastics, particularly at coastal beaches where plastic waste accumulates. The study documents how environmental education programs can build local capacity for addressing plastic pollution.

2023 Jurnal Pengabdian Ilmu Kesehatan (JPIK)
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Microplastic Pollution in Waters and its Impact on Health and Environment in Indonesia: A Review

This review assessed microplastic pollution in Indonesian waters, documenting widespread contamination across rivers, coastal areas, and marine environments, and discussing the health and ecological impacts for the world's second-largest plastic waste contributor.

2021 Journal of Public Health for Tropical and Coastal Region 29 citations
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PENGARUH PENYULUHAN KESEHATAN TERHADAP PENGETAHUAN PENCEMARAN SAMPAH MAKROPLASTIK DAN MIKROPLASTIK PADA MAHASISWA PRODI DIII PEREKAM DAN INFORMASI KESEHATAN STIKes IMELDA

This Indonesian-language study assessed the impact of health counseling on community knowledge about plastic and macroplastic waste contamination. It examined whether targeted education could improve understanding of plastic pollution and its health consequences.

2020 2 citations
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The Plastic Bag Habit and the Ocean Bali: From Banana Leaf Wrappings to Reusable Bags

Researchers explored the cultural and behavioral factors driving high plastic bag consumption on Bali, Indonesia, documenting the shift from traditional banana leaf wrappings to plastic bags and evaluating locally adapted solutions to reduce ocean pollution.

2023 MARE publication series 10 citations