Mt. Lavinia Beach Sri Lanka, An optimistic sized globe to contain the large quantities of plastic that wash up on this beach. It started out properly segregated into just PET bottles (which have a market value, so in theory someone will pick it up) but as the...
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...
*Although I do not advocate that clean-ups be the solution for plastic pollution, I do think they are a valuable tool to understand waste trajectories when waste categorization and brand audits are included. Clean-ups that immediately take and dispose of the...
We design the world we want to live in. Our products are a result of human ingenuity. Design that places 'no value' on the environment looks like single-use packaging. We live in holistic systems of interconnection. Even the *smallest thing like packaging connects...
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...
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...
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...
Plastic is cheap. The environment is not. New investments in fossil fuel extraction, and new investments in plastic production further the trajectory of this persistent pollutant. Plastic is all-pervasive to the point of entrenchment; society is suffocating with...
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...
What is the sound of a healthy habitat? Watch Bernie Krause's talk on the voice of the natural world and listen to his incredible soundscapes. Krause says understanding and being aware of 'biophony' helps us develop a sense of place and understand the harmony of...