The name Benjamin Von Wong is probably familiar to you, because a few months ago the photographer, whose interest is focused on environmental issues, took a series of photos showing e-waste, which has been given a second chance due to its indestructibility. This time, he captured the plastic in the oceans and its terrible effects on the environment.
Excessive need for constant changes in technology and human desire, to follow each one technological trend, caused the number of e-waste, whose impacts on the environment, workforce and also consumers are eerie, distinctly so increases. Phones, tablets, computers don't even serve their age when they do we buy new ones. Because a lot of this kind of waste does not recycles, he wished them Benjamin Von Wong give a second chance. Together with his team he did massive sculptures from e-waste, the creation of which was also shown in a series of five videos.
It is obvious that Benjamin's environment interested, so he tackled another of the project, namely he wanted to capture in the lens a fact that the world is facing: plastic in the oceans. We already wrote about the 24-year-old Boyan Salt, which is invented System 001 to clean the ocean, this obviously also influenced as a good example Benjamin, who started the project Truckload of Plastic.
To the world vividly presented, how polluted ours is planet, Von Wong teamed up with Greenpeace and using photos to show how much plastic the ocean consumes 1 MINUTES.
Von Wong and his team are with the help of volunteers collected and tied up thousands of plastic waste at the Gouviá marina in Greece. Extreme performer in the air Katerina Soldatou is then in front of the lens together with the packaging, as they floated on the surface of the water, posing to showed what an ocean looks like that consumes a truckload of plastic in one minute.
On his blog, Von Wong wrote that we don't realize what is currently happening to the plastic we have thrown away, what is happening every day and what will be our future and the future of our children. In the video, he says that raising awareness about plastic is not difficult, but rather problematic the inactivity of companies in the project of excluding plastic from their production.
The photographer thus started a petition, v which invited large companies, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestlé, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks and McDonald's, should remove single-use plastic packaging from their production systems.
What challenges did they face? projects meet, can be viewed in his video, which will definitely encourage you to take care of yours a better tomorrow.
More information:
blog.vonwong.com
