{"id":27598,"date":"2020-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migrate.psi-network.de\/2020\/01\/02\/sustainable-plastic-art\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:47:18","slug":"sustainable-plastic-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psi-network.de\/en\/2020\/01\/02\/sustainable-plastic-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable plastic art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A London Store has managed to polarise people with its large-format photographs of waste, confronting visitors with global plastic usage. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollution of the\noceans by plastic waste has become an enormous problem. Every year, about 8\nmillion tonnes of plastics finish up in the oceans, threatening both marine\nlife and the health of people all over the globe. Since due to solar radiation\nand saltwater, plastic gradually decomposes into the smallest of micro\nparticles, it has even reached the deepest point of the sea, the Mariana Trench\nin the Pacific Ocean, in the meantime. Plastic entering the human circulatory\nsystem via air, food or water can have disastrous health consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many noteworthy projects have already been introduced to increase awareness of the problem and to get everyone to think about their own personal use of plastic products. This includes the gigantic art installation \u201cOver Flow<\/a><\/strong>\u201d by Tadashi Kawamata and located in the Lisbon Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology. These projects demonstrate impressively just how much plastic finishes up in the rivers and oceans. The \u201cOcean Clean Up<\/a><\/strong>\u201d project has set itself the task of using floating islands to collect plastic waste from the surface of the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another project\nis the exhibition by the \u201cShed Design\u201d artists, set in the heart of London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There, visitors were able to visit the \u201cPass On Plastic<\/a><\/strong>\u201d pop-up store from 8th<\/sup> November 2018 to 6th<\/sup> January 2019. The store was printed floor to ceiling with everyday plastic products such as toothbrushes and PET bottles. The closer visitors got to the digitally printed wallpaper, the clearer it became that the terrazzo-like wallpaper was actually made of waste. It highlighted very impressively the enormous quantities of plastic waste produced by people in the western world and the effect this is having on the oceans. The viewer was confronted with his own plastic consumption and encouraged to reflect upon it. What is so special about the plastic objects depicted on the walls is that this was real plastic waste which had been recovered from the ocean and photographed for the project. The waste motif was also repeated on the changing cubicles\u2019 fabric curtains and the facade of the building. The individual neon lettering with the hashtag PassOnPlastic completed the range of different advertising technology materials used. <\/p>\n\n\n\n