Coincidentally I found a website that works to remove debris from the ocean and also found this really sad octopus that my granddaughter Corin (Corin’s cartoons as I call them) drew just before her fifth birthday and felt the two needed to go side by side. She said the title was fine for her cartoon blog and then corrected my misspelling of “octapus” to “octopus, a silly phonetic typo. (@2016)
So since I have a memory-bead business, I was interested in their recycled bead bracelets and contacted them hoping to find the instructions for making nice round plastic beads from plastic junk. Their beads are however glass…not as earth-friendly as i would have liked since glass can easily be recycled and eventually breaks down into sand…but it sent me on a journey to find out who in the world has made recycled plastic beads and how to do it. Long story short I got some leads, but I am still working on finding a method i like. But best thing is that Corin has learned that the oceans are critical to homo sapiens survival. Check out the website for 4Oceans, reduce your plastic use, reuse, then recycle where at all possible.