Friday, March 8, 2013

Chris Jordan


Depicts 240,000 plastic bags, equal to the estimated number of plastic bags consumed around the world every ten seconds.

Depicts 200,000 heirloom agricultural plant seeds, equal to the number of farmers in India who have committed suicide since 1997, when Monsanto introduced its genetically modified cotton seeds containing terminator technology into that region.

 Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world's oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean.



There are 51.2 billion pieces of litter along roadways nationwide at any time.

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