Wetlands Public Art: Elevated Wetland a '90s project that resonates today

Here's a wetland that isn't disappearing anytime soon.

Toronto's Elevated Wetland, created by artist Noel Harding, is "a wetland environment within six giant polystyrene “animal-like” plastic containers located next to the Don River in Taylor Creek Park. The sculpture uses waste plastic as a soil substitute to mechanically filter water from the polluted Don River."

The project was commissioned in 1995 by the Canadian Plastics Industry Association, approved by the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto in 1997 and inaugurated in 1998.

The City of Toronto Archives has extensive and interesting records about this project.