John Anderson, a retired plumber from Forks, Washington, changes unsuspecting waste items into beautiful pieces of art.

At the Beachcombing Museum in Washington, decades of items pulled from the ocean become art, history, and a powerful reminder of ocean pollution.

Students at Lillian M. Jacobs School in Hull turned ocean trash into an art installation. The project began with sixth graders collecting over 40 bags of trash from a local beach. Art teachers and ...