Name: Where Do Plastics Go After We Throw Them Away? Perpetual Plastic: Short Documentary
Uploaded: 2026-03-02T22:31:02.000Z
Duration: 9 min 54 s
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I am here to make life more pleasant, more convenient, more efficient.

There are 8 billion people living on this planet.

We all wake up, get dressed, eat, go to work.

We buy and sell things we desire, things we use and we throw away things.

What happens to all of these things after we use them?

Over 24 billion pairs of shoes are sold worldwide every year.

One of the most common shoe is the flip flop.

Plastic flip flops are cheap and fast to produce.

I am a trained fashion designer and found myself in a factory mass producing shoes.

Everything that's important to me seemed missing from this scene.

I could see the snake biting its own tail right there in the factory.

The ever hungry snake of mass production.

And by doing so, destroying everything around it.

I started to do something that I call curating the beach.

It's making rainbows from rubbish, creating something beautiful.

How do we respond to the world around us?

I only recognize my power when I'm directly touching the pollution, the dark sides of our throwaway society, the guilt, the powerlessness.

I feel confronted with the destruction caused by man.

I need to get in there with my own two hands, get dirty, sweaty, and

This is a physical data visualization installed on a beach in Bali.

Since the 50s, the unimaginable amount of 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics have been produced globally.

What you see here are these statistical numbers translated into a physical art installation.

The installation shows the total of plastic that exists in the world today.

In shops and homes, buried in landfill, burned or lost in the ocean.

This black section represents all plastic ever produced.

Black then fades into different colors and splits up into separate streams.

The white stream shows discarded plastics, meaning disposed in landfill or unmanaged in the landscape or ocean.

Green is recycled plastics, red incinerated and blue still in use plastics.

The width of each stream is proportional to the statistical number.

I was conveniently available and I was cheap.

The right question is when am I going to end?