Heather Kaye’s presentation was an insightful and very honest discussion about the unsustainability of fashion. Before the session I only knew that nylon as a synthetic fiber that was made of plastic, so it was quite surprising to learn about polyester as a fabric material. I was actually a bit skeptical of this until Heather…
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Pangna Sun – Clothes Tagged: Made from Plastic
I was not aware that many of our clothes are made of plastic. This is shocking because I wear them every single day but know nothing about them. What did I think they are made of? I started asking myself after I read the class materials. I always thought that clothes are made from plants like cotton…
Imaginary Beach Collection: Plastic in Quarantine
One of the most striking and alarming changes of the past year has been our readiness to sacrifice environmental conservation when immediate human health is at stake. As Covid took hold of the world, people who had previously avoided single-use plastics (including myself) unquestioningly adopted masks, plastic packaging, and more readily disposable mindsets. This…
Cleaning The Beach
Going to collect plastic on the beach was an interesting experience. We arrived at around 9:30, so the weather was not at it’s hottest yet, but it was not particularly cool either. The beach we went to was a relatively clean one, and yet we still managed to find a good amount of trash. The…
Fast Fashion and rethinking our dependence on plastic
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…
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…
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…