Plastic Trees
A million plastic bags are used every minute.
The Guinness Book of Records describes the bags as the most ‘ubiquitous consumer item in the world’. These useful little bags form the greatest source of pollution and can be found all around the world: from the beach and the ocean floor to the Arctic region and on top of Mount Everest. Plastic is non-biodegradable and therefore continues to linger for hundreds of years.
The problem is even more acute in developing countries, where infrastructures for waste management are less advanced and populations are accustomed to throwing everything away. The plastic bags strewn across nature have a harmful effect on the landscape, but also on agricultural land, leading to the death of pets and wild animals.
Plastic Trees aims to draw attention to this problem. The work focuses on the spread of plastic bags on the Bolivian Plateau, where millions of bags are carried by the wind until they are caught in shrubs, becoming a blot on the beautiful landscape.
