PLASTIC VIEW

Giving identity to ocean garbage to improve awareness of pollution and its influence.

Long Description

The pollution of the sea through plastic garbage is a global phenomenon and problem. Through degradation and decomposition tiny plastic pieces float in the water column, only 1% is visible on the surface. Toxic substances contaminate humanities nutrition. Birds starve to death of plastics indigestibility. Microplastic-strewn beaches worldwide. These facts and its impacts are not assessable yet. Also it is invisible or unheard-of by most of earth’s citizens.

A plastic persona is sent on a lifetime ocean journey. This unpredictable journey is exciting and astonishing by constructing the track of a common piece of plastic garbage led by the sea. In this context, the plastic persona only differs from any other plastic piece because of its ability to communicate. It uses this privilege as voice and representative to give an identity to all ocean plastics. It sends image documentary via satellite connection directly to social media. The real and medial presence of this plastic persona proofs the existence of plastic garbage in the ocean’s.

»PLASTIC VIEW« is a communication tool to provide a long term image documentary as proof of plastics durable lifecycle. It is meant to constantly face humanity with garbage pollution on the sea to generate permanent awareness of this ongoing problem.