Plastic Tsunami by Neil Massey

Public Project

Plastic Tsunami

Copyright Neil Massey 2024

Date of Work Jun 2019 - Ongoing

Updated Jun 2019

Location London

Topics Activism, Agriculture, Business, Capitalism, Climate Change, Community, Conceptual, Conservation, Design, Editorial, Education, Environment, Fine Art, Food, Globalization, Industrial, Mixed Medium, Photography, plastic, Politics, Poverty, recycling, Reporting, Still life

Feeling overwhelmed by the sea of un-recyclable, un-biodegradable plastic that seems to pass through my family household every day. In the UK the big supermarkets need to do more to stem the use of single use plastics used in their packaging. Most of it ending up in the sea, being burn't or buried in the ground or failing that sent to a country far away. Using my office scanner I've started to document this un-recyclable plastic packaging and other offenders that we use fleetingly in our day to day lives.

Im interested in any collaborations with this work to help raise awareness for the eradication of single use plastics.

This is an ongoing project..

PLASTIC TSUNAMI
Feeling overwhelmed by the tsunami of un-recyclable plastic that passes through my household on a daily basis. The main big UK supermarkets and government don't seem to have an appetite to deal with this problem of plastic packaging waste. Most...

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