I partially knew that some clothes were made of plastic, but I hadn’t thought about the pervasiveness of this. I assumed that the ‘artificial-feeling’ clothes like shiny fashion clothes or acrylic decorations were the plastic components, but didn’t realize how it is literally interwoven in even clothes that are partially natural, and I thought even…
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Battle of the Bag – Wednesday Reading Response
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story (Battle of the Bag: p. 140-170) “Battle of the Bag,” Chapter 6 of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story explains the origins and trajectory of the plastic bag, one of the most widely targeted objects of environmental interventions. This offers valuable insight into the politics of sustainability in the US context and…
Plastic on the beach
Going to the beach to collect plastic waste was always something I wanted to properly do because whenever I went to the beach I would always be frustrated by the garbage around me and it would leave me spending a few minutes picking up what I see around me but not around the whole beach….
Plastic Collection
I was not able to do the trash collection on the scheduled date but that came with the advantage of reading my peer’s experience going to the beach. Due to a mix of factors ranging from cheap labor costs and overall culture, waste is either cleaned very regularly or is disposed of properly by the general public….
(Not so) Plastic Beach
In all honesty, I was not looking forward to the trash collection experience on the beach due to several reasons. To begin with, in summer it is even sometimes unhealthy to do an outside activity for a long time, even more if the activity itself requires you to be under the sun for a long…
Precious Plastic Shanghai
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Ali AlDhanhani – Beach Plastic Collection
To start off, this plastic collection and beach cleaning experience is one I’ll be sure to explore again. From the welcoming from the hotel managers to the kind words from the guests, I realized the importance of activities like these. NYUAD is known for organizing nurdle hunts, so I was expecting to find an abundance…
Plastic on campus
I chose to collect plastic around campus in order to determine which form of plastic is more commonly consumed and what we can do to prevent it. After speaking with a few friends and collecting plastic items, I discovered that the majority of our plastic consumption on campus is in the form of packaging, from…
Trash Pickup For Sculpture
For the trash collection at the Park Hyatt Beach I expected there to be plastic bottles and trash near the shoreline where the waves hit the beach. My thinking was proven wrong when the closer to the shoreline I got, the cleaner the beach became. I guess the beach is regularly cleaned for trashes or…
Plastic Collecting at the Beach
Going there personally I felt like I would have a very unpleasant experience, because of the scorching heat from Abu Dhabi’s sun. However, as we reached the vibes were truly amazing and it wasn’t as hot as I had thought it would be because there was a nice breeze. Going there i was expecting to…
Pangna Sun – Journey to the Beach
I took this class assignment as an opportunity to search for trash on the way to the beach and at the Saadiyat Beach as well as to do some exercise. I did not expect much trash at the beach because the last time I was there, the beach looked quite clean. This could be because…
Fanisi – Hunting for Plastic on the Beach
I have titled my piece ‘hunting for plastic…’ because there was a limited amount of plastic to be found on the beach. It is likely due to the fact that we went to a very upscale private beach where they probably have staff to do clean-up. We also went to the beach in the morning…