Plastic Garbage Catcher

The goal of this project is to address the problem of river plastic pollution by creating a conceptual “Red Code” warning landscape.
The location of the site is in Trinidad and Tobago, a Caribbean country that receives tons of plastic garbage each year, which leads to serious contamination. Following the United Nations’ recommendation, the installation of “trash barrier nets” has resulted in the creation of a recognizable “garbage line” in the local area. Therefore, we attempt to adopt low-cost and easy to implement methods to capture plastic waste in local rivers as much as possible and raise awareness of this red warning.

In response to the current situation, we designed a garbage catcher to transform the process of river garbage accumulation into a warning landscape in the form of land art, reminding people of the red code crisis of river pollution. By upgrading the “garbage line” to “landscape line” and “recreation line”, we can guide public participation and awaken people’s awareness of environmental protection, accelerating the shift from a “Red Code” crisis to a “Green Code” recovery.