Chris Jordan: Face to face with what we waste
Ever wondered what two million plastic bottles looks like? That, incidentally, is the amount that Americans throw away every five minutes, and is also what you're looking at in the picture above.
This photograph is just one of many shocking visual renditions of the statistics we try to ignore shown on artist Chris Jordan's website. Other works include a dizzying 410,000 paper cups, equal to the number of disposal hot-beverage paper cups used in the US every fifteen minutes, 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day and 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.
The pictures, at actual size, are so enormous there's no way they'd fit on a screen, but you can zoom in to see the detail, bringing the extent of the waste even closer to home. Seeing them in person, I think, would just blow me away.
who's counting them? did he really find two million bottles or is this just an impression?
Posted by: Katy G | January 21, 2008 11:44 AM