Playa Avellanas

Julio 2012 - Una simple caminata en la playa
Uncontrolled waste!

Photo: The central installation: Every 15 seconds this amount of plastic garbage gets released into the sea
Ever since mass-produced plastic products have made our lives easier, the sea has gradually begun to change into a gigantic soup of plastic – today not a single square kilometer of seawater is free of plastic particles. As standard plastic is not biodegradable, these pieces are broken up into constantly smaller pieces and enter the food chain. And so the garbage ends up on our plates, with serious consequences for our health.

The exhibition presents collected plastic garbage from all the world’s seas and illustrates the full extent of this ecological catastrophe. In addition the project looks at the advantages and disadvantages of plastics and at their influence on health. The approaches to a solution such as reducing, reusing or recycling encourage to consumers of plastics to take action. The exhibition is accompanied by a richly diverse educational program that aims at encouraging active confrontation with the material at different levels.
The exhibition just opened in the Zurich Museum of Design / Switzerland. Free entrance from 4 July - 23 September 2012

The goal of this project is to give as large and wide a public as possible an impetus to use plastic in a more conscious way. The project aims at encouraging action and changing behavior. To reach as many people as possible, the exhibition will tour throughout Europe and, hopefully, also in other continents. This tour is made possible by the Drosos Foundation.
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Zurich (CH)
«Out to Sea? The Plastic Garbage Project»
4 July – 23 September 2012
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Preview
Arnhem (NL)
18 October – 25 November 2012
Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem
Hamburg (DE)
20 December 2012 – 31 March 2013
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Tampere (FI)
4 Mai – 3 August 2013
Taidehalli TR 1
Kolding (DK)
28 August 2013 – 23 February 2014
Trapholt – Museum of Modern Art, Applied Art, Design and Architecture
Bring it to your country:
International tour
Requests concerninge the international touring exhibition, please address to:
T: +41 (0)43 446 67 02
F: +41 (0)43 446 45 67
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Abteilung Ausstellungen
P.O. Box
CH-8031 Zürich
Switzerland
Source: plasticgarbageproject.org

Now we are talking about design!
‘We’ve created a usable bottle from ocean plastic and upcycled it into something useful that can be recycled again and again,’ said Adam Lowry, Method co-founder and chief greenskeeper. ‘Our ultimate goal is to raise awareness that the real solution to plastic pollution lies in reusing and recycling the plastic that’s already on the planet.’


Bravo!!
Source: The Dieline
At the beginning of our blog we posted about the pictures taken in the Midway Islands, the story still continues. You can follow all the documentation through their Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/MidwayJourney
or the webpage: www.midwayjourney.com
In this video they present John Klavitter, the deputy wildlife refuge Manager of the Midway Atoll National Wildlife refuge has spent almost 10 years on Midway Island.
In this short film, he not only takes a closer look inside one of the dead chicks, but also shares his personal views and connection to the Albatross.
Keep posted with the reality we are facing each day!
“Soup is a photo series that documents the millions of tiny pieces of plastic floating in our oceans. Pollution has never looked so pretty.”
“The intention of my work is to visually attract the viewer to the image and for them to question what it represents.”
Amazing work from Mandy Barker
Source: fastcoexist.com
Horrible shocking images and facts about plastic debris killing sea lions and seals.
“The opposite of beauty is indifference” Amazing artists trying to raise awareness through art. They believe single use of plastic is evil, therefore they recreate.
Thanks Marcela C.
http://transparentseavoyage.com/

TransparentSea is an awareness campaign aimed at highlighting coastal environmental issues, with particular attention given to cetaceans (whales and dolphins) and the waters they inhabit.
The first journey (Byron Bay to Bondi, Australia, 2009) successfully highlighted the plight of humpback whales and the threat faced by Japanese whaling fleets.
The second (California, October, 2011) traces the southern migration of the California Grey Whale from Santa Barbara to Baja, Mexico with an emphasis on engaging key coastal community groups and drawing awareness to the causes they support.
Great campaign from WWF. If we care for what we eat we should also care for where it comes from.
Thanks Majo!

Source: Flickr / edgegraphic
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