Friday, August 3, 2007

More reason to RECYCLE and REUSE....

So, I want to show you some more photographs taken by Chris Jordan, that show us something very important. We, as a country, need to really start thinking about the impact of the things we do every day and take for granted! (Remember to click on each picture to enlarge it, to get the FULL effect.)

Here's reason to buy canvas grocery bags that you can re-use every day. These photographs depict 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the United States,
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And these pictures depict 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones RETIRED IN THE US, EVERY DAY.





To see more pictures depicting our consumption habits, visit the link to his website we have on the right margin.

1 comment:

mchenriwata said...

lisa, in passing this morning, i heard a follow up on this story on npr.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/28/SFSUPES.TMP

not exactly the solution, i think, but interesting...