Never Use Another Plastic Bottle - Warning: Very Graphic Picture

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September 13, 2007

Never Use Another Plastic Bottle - Warning: Very Graphic Picture

At Burning Man this year, I witnessed one of the most powerful images I've ever seen. (similar to my experience when CivicActions visited Greenpeace International's office in Amsterdam - and we gasped when viewing some of their own pictures from around the world) This picture, by artist Chris Jordan, "depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes."

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so - imagine this picture, 216 per day, every day of the year, going into our environment...
The wider picture looks like static on an analog TV, or maybe one of those Magic Eye pictures that were so popular in the 90s.
holy shit!!!