8,000 Bottles every second..?

The "Recycling Labyrinth" at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

In commemoration of World Environment Day, the U.S. Mission is sponsoring Mona Sfeir’s “Recycling Labyrinth” a work of art comprised of 8,000 plastic bottles, the number of bottles that go into landfills worldwide every second, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

The focus of this work of art is to call attention to the challenge of global waste management. Mona explained that “To reduce, reuse and recycle are very important steps in dealing with our waste and this strategy has long been the focus for many environmentalists… However, I made this piece together with local volunteers to emphasize that it is time for us to eliminate the concept of waste all together.  We need to develop solutions that bring environmentalists and industrialists together with the common goals of living harmoniously with our planet and creating human prosperity—this can only happen if we redesign our products and packaging from the very beginning.”

Think about waste... and waste management... is really being managed or just brushed under the proverbial carpet for future generations (our children..) to clean up,,, or be poisoned by...

If there is 8,000 Plastic Bottles going to landfill every second,,,  I hate to think how many are unaccounted for and being discarded by mindless twits ultimately ending up in our precious oceans entering the food chain...

Pretty selfish...