People Laying In 7 Days Worth Of Their Own Garbage
Rijndael
Published
08/12/2014
The United States has a trash problem and it's a very big problem. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than 4 pounds of garbage per day. That's more than double the amount produced in 1960, and it's 50 percent more than the amount produced by Western Europeans.
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Photographer Gregg Segal decided to put some imagery to those numbers. -
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His ongoing series, 7 Days of Garbage, shows Californian friends, neighbors, and relative strangers lying in the trash they created in one week. -
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The project is intended to open the eyes of Americans to their wasteful ways and how that impacts our environment. -
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Some of Segals subjects volunteered to be a part of the project because they believed in the idea behind it. Others were compensated for participating. -
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Segal strove to include people from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. -
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while the amount of garbage varies by person, there were some people who produced more garbage than they were willing to bring to the shoot. -
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There were some people who edited their stuff. -
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They didn't want to include really foul stuff so it was just packaging stuff without the foul garbage. -
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Other people didn't edit and there were some nasty things that made for a stronger image. -
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What we now consume comes complete with all manner of environmentally-unfriendly packaging that is very quickly discarded and finds its way into the trash bin, and that is a real problem for global pollution.
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Photographer Gregg Segal decided to put some imagery to those numbers.
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