Yustina Salnikova is a designer/sculptor who creates large scale creations meant to encourage environmental awareness and social change. Yustina was instrumental in the creation of Ethyl, an 82-foot-long Blue Whale made from steel and plastic waste.  Yustina and her co-designer Joel Stockdill are the current Guinness Record Holders for creating Ethyl, heralded as the World’s largest recycled plastic sculpture.

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Yustina describes herself as a recycled waste nerd. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the designer/sculptor talks about how she came to design and build large scale creations using recycled plastic waste. In collaboration with Joel Stockdill, she designed Ethyl, an 82-foot-long Blue Whale made from steel and plastic waste. Yustina and Joel Stockdill are Guinness Record Holders for Ethyl who is heralded as the World’s largest recycled plastic sculpture. Yustina shares photographs and explains the work that went into collecting and transforming the recycled plastic into the behemoth Ethyl. Her creations are meant to encourage environmental awareness and social change.

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