Artist Statement
Plastic has many practical properties: it is light, cheap, and robust. However, if we use it as wastefully as we do now, it will become our fate. Because it takes centuries for plastic to decompose and only a small amount is recycled, most plastic waste ends up in the ocean and eventually in our bodies—be it in our drinking water or in our food. If we don’t change our handling of plastic now, the problem will become unsolvable and we will be drinking plastic instead of water one day.
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