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Plass – Materials that die

Plastic is omnipresent, there are nine billion tonnes of plastic in the world [1], more than one tonne for every human alive right now. 91% of this plastic is not recycled [2], leading to 51 trillion microscopic pieces of plastic in the ocean alone [3]. Furthermore, the plastic industry will keep on growing and is […]

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Materials that can live and die

Planned Obsolescence One of the biggest source of our technological wastes comes from planned obsolescence, this picture is from a series of photographs from Chris Jordan called “Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption” [1]. He travelled around the USA to show people what happened with their discarded technology. The concept of planed obsolescence is used […]