NYPL Green: Algae Jewlery!

Join staff from the Hamilton Grange Library for a fun and exciting program about ecosystems! We will be learning about how cotton and synthetic fibers add to pollution through microplastic contamination, and how many in the fashion industry have turned to alternative sources of producing textiles and accessories to reduce pollution-- seaweed and algae! In this project, we'll use sodium alginate and calcium chloride to make algae strings that, once dried, can be twisted to make bracelets or neck…