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Running the Numbers: Eye-Opening Waste Art Exhibit

Discover the shocking impact of daily waste through powerful visuals. Learn how small actions lead to environmental degradation and explore ways to make a difference. This art exhibit by photographer Chris Jordan sheds light on the staggering quantities of discarded items in the U.S., urging us to rethink our consumption habits for a sustainable future.

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Running the Numbers: Eye-Opening Waste Art Exhibit

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  1. Try to guess whatthe following images are.

  2. What is this?

  3. 426,000 cell phones discarded daily.

  4. What is this?

  5. 200,000 cigarette packs, the samenumber of Americans who dieevery six months due to smoking.

  6. What is this?

  7. Set-up of thousands of small pictures, showing the traces of 11,000 planes, the number of commercial flights taking place in the U.S. every 8 hours.

  8. What is this?

  9. 170,000 batteries are produced every 15 minutes.

  10. What is this?

  11. 65,000 cigarettes. The number of Americans under 18 that start smoking every month.

  12. What is this?

  13. 1 million of plastic cups trashed every six hours in commercial flights.

  14. What is this?

  15. 60,000 plastic bags,discarded every 5 seconds.

  16. What is this?

  17. 2 million plastic bottles,dumped every 5 minutes.

  18. This is not a picture.

  19. It’s 106,000 aluminium cans,thrown into the garbage every 30 seconds.

  20. These pictures are part of the exhibit "Running the Numbers, an American Self Portait", of photographer Chris Jordan, highlighting the millions of objects that accumulate in the planet, well beyond our sight. The numbers mentioned were obtained from the quantities of waste discarded only in the United States. Imagine what world figures are! This isWASTE ART.

  21. Environmental degradation is a cumulative effect of the actionseach one of us takes... Therefore, the solution also lies within each one of us.Help our planet!Think before you use!Reduce, reuse, recycle…GIA – Grupo de Impacto AmbientalAdaptado de: Superinteressante, Edição 247, Dez/2007.Fotos: www.chrisjordan.com

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