Plastic Bottles, 2007 (60×120″) – Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.

This great visual from Chris Jordan is incredibly effective, especially if you compose the slides to zoom out the striking image. Apart from the whole consumption point of view, I also use this aesthetic to comment on technology in general – as in, yes, plastics make things awful convenient, but taken to elevated and collected levels, look at what that convenience amounts to.

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