Well we can worry a lot about the plastic that's floating around in our oceans OR we can find stuff to do with it! SOMEthing is only RUBBISH if you imagine that it is. There is another way to think about a problem. There always is!
There would be almost no need for any more plastic to be made if all that has been produced was actively been cycled in CULTURALlandscape/s we occupy. Trees leave when we exploit then and return if we look after their seeds. to be there they need our careing.
In fact if this were so, a great deal of that which has been produced would be USEDup and not floating in the oceans and waterways that are a part of our CULTURALlandscaping. Unlike the organic materials of ‘wickery’ that return, in time, gently to the earth, ‘plastics’ stick around waiting to to be cycled.
It is not the phenomena BIGplastic that we should be concerned about but rather the ECONOMICparadigm currently dominating our CULTURALlandscaping, or indeed our PLACEmaking.
The materiality in ‘PLASTIC’ is such that we need to USEup this ‘stuff’ and mindfully. It resists gentleness, it demands to be USEDup and when it is not it doesn’t let us forget about its presence once we have made it.
It seems to demand that we continue to pay attention to its presence. It will not leave quietly. We must pay attention to it like a noisy child at meal time who continually tell us that they are there – or indeed or companion pets when demanding /craving our love and undivided attention!
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PLASTIC IS NOT RUBBISH UNLESS WE IMAGINE IT THAT WAY
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