How You Can Help Make Manhattan Green.

“The idea is to try to depict the quantities of things that we consume and the quantities of things that we discard….106,000 cans is the actual number of aluminium cans we discard every 30 seconds.”

Last Thursday’s “The Colbert Report” featured an interview with artist/photographer Chris Jordan, who “makes art out of excessive waste.” Above, the background of the third photo represents the quantity of one day’s worth of aluminium cans, that we use every day, stacked on top of each other. If you could stack one day’s worth of aluminium cans, that’s how many it would be. The background image shows how tall, in relation to the Manhattan skyline, the stacked cans are. It’s a lot of cans. Take a look at the video:

Visit NYCWasteLe$$, New York City’s one-stop resource for waste prevention and recycling information. It offers some great tips and information about what and how to recycle in New York City, and is an extremely comprehensive resource for recycling and reducing waste in all areas of our lives: home, agencies and schools, and business.

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