Plastics in the ocean, part II
Posted October 21, 2010 at 6:26 am by Ian Byington
Chris Jordan's online art piece....
Doris Estabrooks sent this over – look at it & I think you’ll say “Wow!”
Click here to start, and then click to zoom in….
Gyre, 2009, by Chris Jordan
8×11 feet, in three vertical panels
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.
Click the image to zoom in.
Closeup...
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Categories: Enviro Corner
2 comments:
2 comments...
This is amazing! I’m not saying wow, I’m saying WOW!!!
What’s most remarkable to me is that we only discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is the size of North America, only 12 years ago.
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