what we throw "away" refuses
to stay remote ... traces are blowing back to everyone's "here"

 

"A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain..."

 

 

"Plastic Ocean: Our oceans are turning into plastic ... are we?" by Susan Casey, BestLife

"Trashed, Across the Pacific Ocean, Plastics, Plastics Everywhere," Charles Moore, Natural History, v. 112, n. 9, Nov. 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The things we produce now and the way we live because of this production are unique to our time. These are behavioral portraits expressed through the inevitable refuse of living.”
--Katherine Hubbard

 

The Private Life of Trash, with artist Katherine Hubbard and Good magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"After sixteen years searching for a final resting place, 3,000 tons of ash from a Philadelphia incinerator return home."

Read about the 16 year tour a barge of incinerator ash took around the world.

Listen to the audio by GreenWorks Radio

The Ash Barge Odyssey, the film.

 

COLORS Magazine issue #40, Trash