Italian studio Arabeschi di Latte and curator Jane Withers have installed a bar at London's Selfridges that invites visitors to "imagine life without the plastic water bottle" as part of an exhibition about ocean plastic (+ slideshow). More about Selfridges hosts Water Bar for marine plastic exhibition Project Ocean
London-based Studio Swine has developed its work with ocean plastic, crafting a series of objects from the material to represent each of the ocean gyres where it accumulates (+ movie). More about Studio Swine turns ocean plastic into crafted objects
Ocean plastic is this year's breakthrough material. Pharrell Williams has used it to produce a range of clothes, Adidas has launched a range of trainers and a young designer has created a machine to harvest tonnes of the waste material from the sea. See all our stories about ocean plastic »
More about Today we like: designers working with ocean plastic
Sportswear brand Adidas has launched a prototype shoe with an upper made entirely from yarns and filaments produced using plastic salvaged from the ocean (+ slideshow). More about Adidas unveils sports shoes made from recycled ocean waste
A 100-kilometre array of floating barriers designed by a 20-year-old inventor aims to clear the oceans of waste plastic, and is one of the projects shortlisted for this year's Designs of the Year award (+ slideshow). More about The Ocean Cleanup aims to strip 70 million kilos of plastic from the sea in 10 years
Musician Pharrell Williams has worked with Dutch fashion brand G-Star Raw to create a denim collection made from waste plastic scooped up from the ocean. More about Pharrell Williams and G-Star RAW transform ocean plastic into denim collection
This movie by designers Studio Swine demonstrates how waste plastic picked up by fishing trawlers can be transformed into chairs on board the boats. More about Open Source Sea Chair by Studio Swine
What if plastic polluting the seas could be harvested by a retired fishing trawler, then transformed into chairs by an onboard factory? More about The Sea Chair by Alexander Groves, Azusa Murakami and Kieren Jones