About One Week: Plastic Challenge
An estimated 100 million tons of plastic is produced on the planet each year. Can you imagine how much of that ends up in the ocean?
Birch Aquarium at Scripps and the New Children's Museum invite you to help us raise awareness about our society's overuse of plastic. We challenge you to collect your plastic trash for ONE WEEK, then post a picture of your pile to this Flickr group (creativity welcomed).
This challenge was first posed to attendees of a February 2012 joint lecture between the Aquarium and NCM titled "TRASH: Art + Science Interset," which explored the possibilities of leveraging both science and art to tackle our environmental problems.
The idea is based on The Midden, an installation within The New Children's Museum's TRASH exhibition that showcases four years of plastic trash collected by the artists.
We invite you to join the challenge and help raise awareness of this critical issue. What can we learn about our habits and lifestyles by examining our waste? And what changes can each of us make to leave the planet a little less trashy?
Learn more
Birch Aquarium at Scripps: aquarium.ucsd.edu
New Children's Museum: thinkplaycreate.org/
The Midden: theiff.org/exhibits/midden.html
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Additional Information
 This is a public group.
- Accepted media types:
- Accepted content types:
- Photos / Videos
- Screenshots / Screencasts
- Illustration/Art / Animation/CGI
- Accepted safety levels:
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