Plastic Plankton
Post-consumer Plastics and Light.
“Plastic Plankton” because plastics often find their way downstream into the waters. When they break into smaller and smaller bits, and are mistaken as plankton, they move up the foodchain. Plastics contain harmful toxins, leeching into the food we eat, the water we drink, and the environments we share with all living beings. Single use plastics have an extremely short useful life, yet ripple through the world in harmful ways for extremely long amounts of time. Plastic production has gone from 2.3 million tons in 1950 to 448 million tons in 2015. Plastic producers plan to double again by 2050. We need to change this pollution that is flooding the planet and especially harming the people and beings who live closest to places where plastics are produced and end up. More and more plastics are ending up in the oceans and waterways. Time to change this!! Time to stop single use plastics!!