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After 4 Years Of Not Throwing Away His Trash This Photographer Created A Powerful Photo Series
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Back in 2011, photographer Antoine Repessé stopped throwing away his recyclable trash to make a point. Four years later he started turning that point into a powerful photo series he called '#365 Unpacked', which challenges us to rethink our role as consumers.
During the 4 year period, the Lille-based artist has accumulated over 70 cubic metres of trash: 1,600 milk bottles, 4,800 toilet rolls, and 800 kg (~1,750 lb) of newspapers, all of which he then separated for an even stronger visual impact: "I wanted to give an aesthetic dimension to my work,” he explains. “The choice of sorting the garbage gives a graphic effect. I tried to produce a perfect picture which evokes something disturbing.”
With his series, Antoine tackles the main obstacle for kickstarting the big changes in waste management or global warming – it’s how invisible these problems are in our day-to-day lives: “We’re often told about the quantity of waste we produce, but I think the impact of a picture can be more powerful than a ton of words,” remarks Repessé. “I hope my project can inspire change,” - and so do we.
More info: Antoine Repessé | facebook (h/t: featureshoot, demilked)
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That's probably all the cigarettes my grandfather has smoked. That's a lot of money you could have saved, grandpa.
It's not just the waste plastic here, but the effect of all those chemicals that we should worry about.
Some of them are bundles of the same magazine / newspaper stacked up together XD you can still see the plastic strapping on some of them!
4 years = 208 weeks, and 4,800 rolls of toilet paper equal 23.07 rolls per week -- I call shenanigans on his claim that he "stopped throwing away his recyclable trash to make a point. " He had to enlist a number of other people for his "collection" Yes, we should recycle, but at least be honest about the process of how he came about the materials
Yea, I have four kids and I calculate that my whole family uses about half that in a four-year period. If he generated double a family of six in the same time period, he may want to start drinking some kefir. Like, a lot of kefir.
Pavel, that's what the kefir's for, but that would be one seriously overactive tum! ;)
Maybe she had an overactive stomach
This article neglects to mention that he enlisted the help of over 200 friends, family and colleagues to accumulate the amount of trash he got. There was an article about this on Huffington Post last year.
I agree. It's clearly more trash than a single person could have collected even over 4 years. It would take me considerably longer to accumulate that much trash.
Hahahahaha loving this!!!
Well I've seen the amount of toilet paper that some women use.They literally roll about 20 pieces on their hand and wipe their genitals and they do that two times for each urinating. So if they go to toilet 5 times a day, that is 100 pieces, that is half of the roll. I can't imagine what they do if they are having a stool. I bet they use 2 rolls per day then. Now If you have 3 women in house that do exactly the same... dammnn, that would be 30 rolls per week.
I'm having a very hard time believing that. Also: You wrote you've seen this, that means you're very close to these women. Why don't you say someting then? NOBODY needs that much paper just for urinating.
If you mean those good for nothing tps what are so thin if you look at them they just get a hole in them, well yes it's an understandable thing to do
I'm calling BS on the not throwing away trash ...
You seem not understanding point of this. So here am I to explain. Trash we use in our daily lives, invisible to us, collects on other places, and pollutes environment.
I think everyone understands that trash builds up and pollutes the environment. But it seems like the point of this photo series is to highlight the rate at which that happens. If he's greatly exaggerating this rate (for instance, by implying that he goes through more toilet paper in a day than most people would in a month), it's a little disingenuous. Also, the quality of the garbage produced is much more telling than the quantity. For example, a lot of paper is produced from tree farms which are cyclically harvested and replanted. Every sheet of paper consists of carbon that was once CO2 in the atmosphere. If that paper is then buried, that is carbon that we're taking out of the atmosphere and putting back into the earth. Plastic can also work this way if it's made from freshly grown sources of carbon, rather than from petroleum. It frequently isn't, but is increasingly so, especially for disposable products like water bottles.
Agreed💛
He probably stored it in a shed or garage till he had enough to prove the point of the series
How can one guy collect 4,800 toilet rolls in 4 years??
Messy poop?
There was an article about this on Huffington Post last year. In that article it said he enlisted the help of over 200 friends, family, and colleagues to accumulate the trash. I guess Bored Panda wanted us to believe that 1 guy goes through more than 3 rolls of TP per day....
Bored Panda has a VERY BAD habit of writing misleading headlines for legit stories.
Where did you get that number?
I see it Caitlyn! Somehow i missed the entire text of the article/that the article existed the first time around :P.
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My BF has Crohns disease, so I know it's very possible to go thru that many.
4 years = 208 weeks, and 4,800 rolls of toilet paper equal 23.07 rolls per week -- I call shenanigans on his claim that he "stopped throwing away his recyclable trash to make a point. " He had to enlist a number of other people for his "collection" Yes, we should recycle, but at least be honest about the process of how he came about the materials
Yea, I have four kids and I calculate that my whole family uses about half that in a four-year period. If he generated double a family of six in the same time period, he may want to start drinking some kefir. Like, a lot of kefir.
Pavel, that's what the kefir's for, but that would be one seriously overactive tum! ;)
Maybe she had an overactive stomach
This article neglects to mention that he enlisted the help of over 200 friends, family and colleagues to accumulate the amount of trash he got. There was an article about this on Huffington Post last year.
I agree. It's clearly more trash than a single person could have collected even over 4 years. It would take me considerably longer to accumulate that much trash.
Hahahahaha loving this!!!
Well I've seen the amount of toilet paper that some women use.They literally roll about 20 pieces on their hand and wipe their genitals and they do that two times for each urinating. So if they go to toilet 5 times a day, that is 100 pieces, that is half of the roll. I can't imagine what they do if they are having a stool. I bet they use 2 rolls per day then. Now If you have 3 women in house that do exactly the same... dammnn, that would be 30 rolls per week.
I'm having a very hard time believing that. Also: You wrote you've seen this, that means you're very close to these women. Why don't you say someting then? NOBODY needs that much paper just for urinating.
If you mean those good for nothing tps what are so thin if you look at them they just get a hole in them, well yes it's an understandable thing to do
I'm calling BS on the not throwing away trash ...
You seem not understanding point of this. So here am I to explain. Trash we use in our daily lives, invisible to us, collects on other places, and pollutes environment.
I think everyone understands that trash builds up and pollutes the environment. But it seems like the point of this photo series is to highlight the rate at which that happens. If he's greatly exaggerating this rate (for instance, by implying that he goes through more toilet paper in a day than most people would in a month), it's a little disingenuous. Also, the quality of the garbage produced is much more telling than the quantity. For example, a lot of paper is produced from tree farms which are cyclically harvested and replanted. Every sheet of paper consists of carbon that was once CO2 in the atmosphere. If that paper is then buried, that is carbon that we're taking out of the atmosphere and putting back into the earth. Plastic can also work this way if it's made from freshly grown sources of carbon, rather than from petroleum. It frequently isn't, but is increasingly so, especially for disposable products like water bottles.
Agreed💛
He probably stored it in a shed or garage till he had enough to prove the point of the series
How can one guy collect 4,800 toilet rolls in 4 years??
Messy poop?
There was an article about this on Huffington Post last year. In that article it said he enlisted the help of over 200 friends, family, and colleagues to accumulate the trash. I guess Bored Panda wanted us to believe that 1 guy goes through more than 3 rolls of TP per day....
Bored Panda has a VERY BAD habit of writing misleading headlines for legit stories.
Where did you get that number?
I see it Caitlyn! Somehow i missed the entire text of the article/that the article existed the first time around :P.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
My BF has Crohns disease, so I know it's very possible to go thru that many.