Katie Conlon Jun 15, 2019
Sri Lankan Coastline wastes: Infographic
A university student from Inside Access put this infographic together based off of our waste findings. Pictures are often an effective way of getting the message...
Innovative Injustice: companies expect citizens and local governments to find ‘resposponsible pathways’ for their packaging waste
How can plastic material be reused, repurposed, or salvaged so it is kept out of the oceans and other ecosystems? Social awareness about the impacts of plastic pollution is growing, and there is a trend for creative, social solutions to the ‘plastic menace.’ Every...
Plastic, recycled and upcycled in the rural context
Video of an experiment I made visiting a backyard plastic recycler in a village outside of Colombo. We are doing an experiment to 'test' what kind of plastic constitutes these objects. In the rural context, there is no lab to verify if the plastic is #2 or #6...
The Gift of Clean Drinking Water: How water is building international friendships and fundamentally changing life for villages in North Central Sri Lanka
Winding along the bumpy backroads through intermittent rice field and jungle, the last village took hours of backroads navigation skills to find. But then, around the corner, the first line of village welcome: a 50-deep motorcycle squad, the ‘motorcade’ for their...
Modernity: we dont build pyramids, nor Taj Mahal’s, we build mounds of plastic effigies
Every single piece of plastic that has ever been made, still exists today - and we keep making more, with no thought for tomorrow. Globally the weight of plastic produced annually (approx. 300m tons) is almost equivalent to the weight of humanity (approx. 316m...
Our system operates correctly, but as a system designed wrong would do…
It is ironic that global environmental change discourse warns of resource scarcity, of food scarcity, of water scarcity, when human society and the earth faces an abundance of waste. It is as if our equation is in reverse, and we are creating outputs of exactly...
Rivers are sacred entities ~
Right of Rivers Signature Page, Please sign and...
The plague of the plastic ‘sachet,’ capturing markets & killing the environment
The industrial food complex is an extremely competitive industry and companies that don't adapt and look for new markets are likely to lose margins and lose out to their competition. (After all corporations have a fiduciary duty to maintain growth). To be...