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The Great Plastic Tide

This graphic was published in Volume Magazine #31 Guilty Landscapes. In three sections: revelations, confessions, and atonement, the issue presents a global scan of large-scale guilty landscapes and our design relation to them.

The Great Plastic Tide is a true representative of a tragedy of the commons, giant swirling gyres of plastic debris are amassing in our oceans, mostly the product of beach pollution from around the world. As the graphic shows, there is no single culprit, rather it is the product of a worldwide phenomenon of mass plastic consumption and improper disposal.

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2012 / magazine / Information Graphics / self-initiated