planet waste art
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426,000 cell phones discarded daily.
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200,000 cigarette packs, the samenumber of Americans who die
every six months due to smoking.
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Set-up of thousands of small pictures, showing the traces of 11,000 planes, the number of
commercial flights taking place in the U.S. every 8 hours.
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170,000 batteries are produced every 15 minutes.
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65,000 cigarettes. The number of Americans under 18 that start smoking every month.
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1 million plastic cups trashed every six hours in commercial flights.
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60,000 plastic bags,discarded every 5 seconds.
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2 million plastic bottles,dumped every 5 minutes.
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This is not a picture.
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It’s 106,000 aluminium cans,
thrown into the garbage every 30 seconds.
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This isWASTE ART.
These pictures are part of the exhibit "Running the Numbers, an American Self Portrait", of photographer Chris Jordan, highlighting the millions of
objects that accumulate on the planet, well beyond our sight.
The numbers mentioned were obtained from the quantities of waste discarded
in the United States only.Imagine what world figures are!
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Environmental degradation is a cumulative effect of the actions
each one of us takes...
Therefore, the solution also lies within each one of us.
Help our planet!Think before you use!
Reduce, reuse, recycle…
GIA – Grupo de Impacto Ambiental
Adaptado de: Superinteressante, Edição 247, Dez/2007.Fotos: www.chrisjordan.com