Just one word: Plastics

The late August afternoon sun is slanting through the trees of Troy Kids’ Garden as Ida Sobotik explains the origin of her latest project, Precious Plastic Madison. “It started with a conversation last year with an 8-year-old boy under that mulberry tree,” says Sobotik, manager of the kids’ garden at Troy Gardens on Madison’s north side. “We watched a piece of plastic roll like tumbleweed over the broccoli plants and settle under a leaf. ‘Plastic is so ugly, it never disappears,’ he said. In my mind I thought, I wish I had something concrete I could do about it. Why are we not addressing plastic pollution?”...