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I'm Venice Buhain, in for Paris Jackson.

From the recycling bin to an art gallery wall, arts correspondent Brangien Davis tells us about a King County program that combines waste production with art creation.

-Since 2015, Recology King County's Artist in Residence program has invited two artists a year inside the recycling facility, giving them scavenging privileges to pick up any materials that catch their creative eye.

-It's overwhelming.

It's awe inspiring.

I think the artists who come into the space for the first time, their wheels get turning.

They have just a thousand ideas how they want to engage with the material coming in.

-I visited the clanking, Willy Wonka-like facility to learn more about this ongoing environmental art program -Five years ago, to work in this vein felt kind of like a niche within the art world.

It's become just more of an immediate concern and interest to artists everywhere.

-Painters, sculptors and textile artists have transformed trash into beautiful, intriguing and sometimes humorous artworks.

Whether made from shampoo bottles, plastic bags, wire shelving or paper cups.

-I was an artist in residence myself in 2018 and I, after the experience, dedicated myself to only using discarded materials, primarily plastics, because that's what we're kind of swimming in these days, and these materials are even a resource in which to explain ideas of sustainability and reuse.

-This year's artists are photographer Eirik Johnson and fashion designer Janelle Abbott.

For Cascade PBS, I'm Brangien Davis.

-Tomorrow, we'll continue this week's coverage of the environment with a look at snowpack and drought in Washington.

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