Plastic contents of...

My son gets more embarrassed by me every day, he really hates my 'bag lady' habit of picking up rubbish which is getting more ambitious all the time.

I love beach combing, as you know, but now, as well as treasure I try to remove as much rubbish as I can. One of the reasons I am passionate about this is this the images above, which are the contents of albatross guts that have died of starvation because their stomachs were so full of plastic debris.

I hope that by removing it when ever you can, from beaches near you, that it will stop the build up of this mess in remoter areas of the world where there is no one to pick it up.
I will go on embarrassing my son . . . in many ways I'm sure.

Black Sea Bream

Environmental art to draw attention to the amount of "flotsam" washing up in Japan 15 million tones every year.

This exhibition "Is it waste? - Art drifting over borders. Waste floating in society -" aims to share and create awareness regarding environmental issues, marine pollution and mass consumption society, focusing on growing concerns about marine debris and wastes. '' This is part of a current exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture.

More Rubbish And Poo and the wonderful work of Simon Whatley

Above: Giant Rubbish Project Dog Poo
Below: Slikachu's Little people in the city

It is distasteful and lots of people have turned there noses up at us today, but we were continuing the theme of this years roundabout project, giant rubbish, with dog poo.

We took it out and about for a photo opportunity, tried to get the police to set up a cordon like Simon Whatley's 'Little People In the City', but they wouldn't, so here are some of the results, more unfortunately are 'littering' my flickr.

Graffiti, Giant Rubbish (Dog poo) Student Work

Thanks due to the WWC students SFW students, Mark and Dudley, and that lovely man who offered to clean up after us. This is part of a giant rubbish/ roundabout graffiti project that is ongoing and gathering momentum.