I have already mentioned that I have been keeping the small soya sauce bottles that come with pre-packed sushi. They are generally in the shape of a fish with little green tops. It wasn’t that I wanted to collect them; I just couldn’t throw them away. It seemed such a waste. Such elaborate things, just to be thrown away after one squirt.
These tiny plastic fish, in every packet of sushi, produce a lot of litter. Which brings me again to Chris Jordan www.chrisjordan.com. Predominantly he is raising awareness of the huge plastic waste in the Pacific Garbage Patch. At the moment, he is working on a project in the Midway Atoll, filming baby Albatrosses, who are dying by the hundreds after consuming plastic mistaken for food. “A Dream of a Dying Albatross (Return to Mother)”. Suddenly the plastic sushi bottles take on a more sinister image, telling me we should question our role in this astonishing environmental tragedy.
Watching his films bought tears to my eyes. Watch, it's frightening that we could lose these birds. So beautiful and aweinspiring.
HI! just said hello on ukhandmade -now I'm here too. I've seen those pictures of the albatosses too, it's very sad. I read somewhere about an idea to turn the Pacific Rubbish patch into an island! Why doesn't the world just stop making plastic rubbish??
ReplyDeleteI know. Horrible isn't it? Yes I saw you on UK Handmade and I like your work. Lovely. Must check that site out again. I am still not entirely sure what to do!
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