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SAVE THE OCEAN collage was made to make people aware of the pollution present in the ocean.
recently stumbled upon a small junk pit full of old glass condiment jars and beverage bottles that were uncovered near a new trail at an old town park (still with me?). many popular USA-local brands we use today were represented.
so don’t tell us it’s not possible, megacorps!!
So I work with a lot of thermoplastic (I don't have a 3d printer yet, I use a heat gun and pellets) and I want everyone who's on the plastic hate train to know and understand a bit o' nuance.
Thermoplastics are generally extremely reusable and recyclable. The thermo plastic I work with is Techleo poly morph and it comes in meltable pellet form, but 3D printing filament uses a similar substance in the thermoplastics family. Other thermoplastic materials include: Worbla products, Polly plastics, and Instamorph.
There's a chemistry part of this I won't bore you with, but the lower the melt temp, usually the weaker the plastic. Worbla requires a higher temp than polymorph for instance. Cold, cured polymorph is softer and more scratchable, where as Worbla isn't.
Anyway-
Please stop getting mad at people with 3D printers because the waste from these printers is absolutely reusable and more importantly: it's easy for a layman to recycle and reuse a thermoplastic at home, now more than ever because of the rise of 3D printers.
Having a recycling plan if you own a 3D printer is a better message to rally behind. Use your 3D printer to recycle what companies won't. Buy recycled filament, create a demand for recycling.
3d printing brings recycling right into your home. Look up how to process bottles into filament and you'll see what I mean. You could make homewares out of your trash easily with just a few extra steps before the print process. A bottle that was cut into a continuous strip, melted into filament and then printed into a knick knack for your shelf is a bottle not in the ocean.
Recycling plastic has now become waaaay more accessible to regular people because of 3d printers. It changes the attitude people have towards recycling as a whole too.
Environmental conversation when it comes to plastic is not entirely an individual responsibility thing as we know and 3d printers are not an enemy. We are having so many more conversations about how to recycle plastic and I know 3d printers are teaching regular people about plastic production and that sets us up with an expectation that companies can do better about waste so they should.
Plastic isn't going away. It is unfortunately a curse of an extremely useful substance with no comparable alternative. Don't hate on plastic indiscriminately, hate on plastic that is not used to its fullest potential. Demand systems of recycling that make sense. Heck, bacteria that can break down plastic is the future right now so maybe artists that create beautiful things with plastic aren't your enemy
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“phantasmagoria”
Acrylic and candy wrappers on plastic https://www.instagram.com/p/CRjnK3HjzfE/?utm_medium=tumblr
This fake yarn is supposedly better for sheep.
Aimed at people who don’t know where wool comes from, it’s 100% plastic. Yes, plastic.
So any garment you wash will release microfibres into the sea. It’ll never decompose.
You’re supposed to believe that sheep shearing is violent and cruel. There are imbeciles out there that work in an unprofessional manner while shearing, but that’s not the case overall.
Sheep don’t suffer from having their fleece removed.
Left on, the fleece can become a home for fly eggs and the subsequent maggots which can eat the sheep. Chemical treatments are available to prevent that happening. It’s much better for the sheep, the land and the farmer to avoid chemical use.
Don’t be fooled. Wool is a sustainable material, one we should make more and better use of.
"Plastic Hearts (Part I)"
PNGs of pink iridescent plastic hearts. Photos taken by me, then turned into pngs with GIMP.
[They are intended to be used as a resource, for example for moodboards or digital collages. You don't have to, but I'd be very happy if you credited and/or tagged me if you use them, I would love to see what they get used for!]
I saw these at a store in August and just had to get them and make some pngs out of them. They are so kitschy, I love it.
There is going to be a part 2; I just had so many pngs that I didn't want to put them all into one post.
Sustainability ideas. From plastic bottles to quilts.
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با یک روز تاخیر گذاشتم پست رو تا همچنان یادمون باشه زمین خونه ماست و نیاز به حفاظت داره. #روز_جهانی_محیط_زیست #پلاستیک #نه_به_پلاستیک #worldenvironmentday #plastic #notoplastic (at Iran)
i am not "adorable" i am a sleek stealthy wild beast
you cannot see me
