Here’s what an hour’s worth of ocean trash looks like

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BY JESS ZIMMERMAN
26 JUL 2011 11:34 AM



This artwork by Chris Jordan is made up of 2.4 million pieces of plastic, all collected from the Pacific Ocean. (You can see details here.) This is already staggering, but it's actually only a fraction of what gets pumped into the ocean every hour. If every one of these pieces were a pound of plastic, and it looked more like a garbage slurry and less like a classic Japanese print, that would be an hour's worth of plastic pollution.


http://curiositycounts.com/post/8052652372/chris-jordans-brilliant-visualizations-of-marine

http://www.grist.org/list/2011-07-26-heres-what-an-hours-worth-of-ocean-trash-looks-like

[CrispyQ]

1. Chris Jordan is fab. All of his exhibits are worth it.

k&r

[Nihil]

2. K&R for an amazing collection ...

... + link to the "Running the Numbers II" gallery (skipping the
intermediate sites) ...

http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn2/#gyre2

>> Gyre II, 2011 44x56" and 60x76"
>> Depicts 50,000 cigarette lighters, equal to the estimated number
>> of pieces of floating plastic in every square mile in the world's oceans.


http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn2/#year-of-the-tiger

>> Year of the Tiger, 2010 62x62"
>> Depicts 3200 toy tigers, equal to the estimated number of tigers
>> remaining on Earth. The space in the middle would hold 40,000 of
>> these tigers, equal to the global tiger population in 1970.

:cry: