by Katie Conlon | Dec 16, 2018 | Consumption, EcoJustice, Enviro-Consciousness, Plastic, Pollution, 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...
by Katie Conlon | Mar 8, 2018 | Consumption, EcoJustice, Enviro-Consciousness, Localization, Plastic, Pollution, Waste
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...
by Katie Conlon | Jan 27, 2018 | EcoJustice, Enviro-Consciousness, Localization, Pollution
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...
by Katie Conlon | Dec 24, 2017 | Consumption, EcoJustice, Enviro-Consciousness, Plastic, Pollution, Waste
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...
by Katie Conlon | Nov 29, 2017 | EcoJustice, Enviro-Consciousness, Pollution
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 what...