CHRIS JORDAN: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF PLASTICS

Chris Jordan: Turning powerful statistics into art. Source: PlasticPollution.

MIDWAY ISLAND: OUR PLASTIC MESS!

Dead albatros full of plastics.  Photo from the series Midway: Message from the Gyre by Chris Jordan

By Gundhramns Hammer
October 3, 2014
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Folks, when you are shopping at the supermarket, please do not forget: Avoid plastics as much as possible. Take a green (e.g., Sisal) shopping bag to the grocery store.

Or at least, knowing how damn hard or nearly impossible is to avoid them in our Plasticocene age, make sure your plastics get recycled or what you shop is wrapped in biodegradable plastic which should also undergo recycling. 

Check the company that does the plastic recycling job in your neighbourhood, for some of these trash pickup businesses tell people they recycle plastics but take them to a dump instead!

Midway Island (Video 1) is a painful reminder of our plastic mess. Please watch this clip once again. This is a nasty indirect result of our addiction to plastics.

Video 1. Midway Island by Chris Jordan.

PLASTIC PLANET: MAN´S BLEAK FUTURE

By Salvatore Scimino

August 17, 2012

A spaceship from another planet landed on Earth. Two aliens stepped out and engaged in man watching. After a few days of studying this bipedal primate, the extraterrestrials came to the conclusion that man was only interested in polluting Earth and warmongering. 

Upon seeing that man has contaminated the entire planet with plastics, they decided that it would be best to leave these bipedal creatures alone, for they concluded that within one or perhaps two hundred years there would not be a single specimen of his kind left. So as they came they left. 

Wilst they were here, nobody noticed their presence, for people were too busy consuming their plastics.

Source: Open Clip Arr Library

                  

                                                                   

POLYMERS IN MAIN HOUSEHOLD PACKAGING APPLICATIONS

Fuente: European Commission (2011). Consult this publication for the above abbreviations.

Source: Going Green Today

PLASTIC POLLUTION OF EARTH

                                                  Source: mailonline                                       

                                                                                      

                                                 PLASTICS CAUSE:

Allergies

Cancer

Hormonal disruption

Brain defects

Miscarrages

Infertility

Impotence

Obesidad

                                                                          

                                         Video 1. Plastic planet (in English)

                                     Video 2. Plastic planet (in German).


References

European Commission (2011). Plastic Waste in the Environment. Revised final report. Institute for European Environmental Policy. 171 p.