Coco the Octopus

2024, Upcycled sculpture incorporating recovered beach and waterway plastic.

Created by TerraCycle’s Design Team to celebrate the launch of Netflix’s Our Oceans, Coco is a colourful veined octopus sculpture covered with more than 2,000 pieces of recovered plastic. Bright colours and curling arms give Coco a playful personality, while small plastic caps form rows of suckers. A Greener Future supplied plastic collected during our cleanups to be incorporated into the artwork, joining other organizations whose collections helped bring Coco to life. Familiar pieces of litter become part of an animal whose home we have a responsibility to protect, connecting community cleanup efforts with a creative reminder to care for our waterways.

TerraCycle Industrial Design and Art Team

TerraCycle’s Industrial Design and Art team sees creative possibilities in materials others discard. Working with hard-to-recycle items, from recovered plastic to snack packaging, the team creates sculptures, products, fashion and furnishings that invite us to rethink what we call waste. Their work combines imaginative design with a focus on reuse and recycling, revealing the colours and textures hidden in everyday materials.

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