垃圾的震撼

(轉載自Chris Jordan)

嘗試跟著照片猜看看以下是什麼
Try to guess what the following images are.

每天有426,000支手機被丟棄。
426,000 cell phones discarded daily.

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200,000包菸，數字等同於每六個月美國人之於菸害的死亡數。
200,000 cigarette packs, the same number of Americans who die every six months due to smoking.

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這是以數千張小照片所組成，畫面顯示11000架飛機的飛行軌跡，數字等同於每八小時在美國上空的飛機數。
Set-up of thousands of small pictures, showing the traces of 11,000 planes, the number of commercial flights taking place in the U.S. every 8 hours.

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每十五分鐘生產170,000個電池。
170,000 batteries are produced every 15 minutes.

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65,000支香煙是每個月未滿 18 歲的美國人開始吸煙的數目。
65,000 cigarettes. The number of Americans under 18 that start smoking every month.

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每六小時的航班裡，就有多達一百萬個塑膠杯被丟棄。
1 million of plastic cups trashed every six hours in commercial flights.

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每五秒就有60,000個塑膠袋被丟棄。
60,000 plastic bags, discarded every 5 seconds.

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每五分鐘就有兩百萬個寶特瓶被丟棄。
2 million plastic bottles, dumped every 5 minutes.

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每30秒就有106,000個鋁罐被拋進垃圾桶裡。
It`s 106,000 aluminium cans, thrown into the garbage every 30 seconds.


這是垃圾藝術。
This is WASTE ART.

這些展示的圖片是來自於「Running the Numbers, an American Self Portait」攝影師是Chris Jordan，裡面顯示的一切遠遠超越我們的想像。
These pictures are part of the exhibit "Running the Numbers, an American Self Portait", of photographer Chris Jordan, highlighting the millions of objects that accumulate in the planet, well beyond our sight.

裡面提到垃圾被丟棄的數字也只是在於美國。
The numbers mentioned were obtained from the quantities of waste discarded only in the United States.

想像一下全世界的數目！
Imagine what world figures are!

環境的退化是日積月累的並且影響我們每個人…因此，幫助我們的地球解決的辦法也在於我們每個人。
Environmental degradation is a cumulative effect of the actions each one of us takes...Therefore, the solution also lies within each one of us.

幫助我們的地球！
Help our planet!

使用前請三思！
Think before you use!

減少、再利用、再循環…
Reduce, reuse, recycle…

GIA – Grupo de Impacto Ambiental

Adaptado de: Superinteressante, Edição 247, Dez/2007.