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If you’re looking for a way to celebrate Earth Day officially held on April 22, check out the volunteer opportunities posted on earthday.org. We previously mentioned how some California zoos are participating, but we didn’t add SeaWorld San Diego to the list.  Washed Ashore, a traveling art exhibit of sculptures made from ocean trash, includes a pit stop in San Diego through September 2015. The larger-than-life hand-crafted sculptures of marine mammals and other sea life made exclusively from marine debris are created from volunteer beach cleanups. Every year the world produces 300 million pounds of plastic, and only 10% is recycled.  90% of the debris collected is petroleum-based: plastic items, nylon ropes and net. Using 98% of this trash to create sculptures, including a walk-through replica of an ocean gyre, a Styrofoam coral reef, Henry the fish, a plastic bottle sea jelly, an oil-spill replica, and a musical sea star tuned to an e-flat scale, the project and exhibits educate in a fun, creative way. If you would like to participate in or host a project, see washedashore.org