What comes to mind when you see something green? Maybe a forest? Or the garden of the family house in your village where you spent summers in your childhood?
For some, the color green might also be associated with something foreign to nature, like plastic.
There is a common misconception that waste disappears when we throw it away. It of course does not. Plastic bottles abandoned carelessly on the grass after a picnic will linger for the next 400-500 years meanwhile breaking into microplastics.
I chose a round shape to symbolize a coin, a circular economy, and to suggest a different way of looking at waste. Specifically, plastic-strewn grass reminds us of waste’s longevity.
The first steps in fighting plastic pollution are to make waste visible, and to learn and become accountable.
Broad positive changes start with individual decisions. Even small steps such as cleaning up after yourself or others will have an impact and can inspire others. The more responsibility people take for their waste, the faster systemic change will happen.
Waste can also be a good resource with which to create new things. For example, five plastic bottles is enough to make one new t-shirt.
Recycling your waste is another important step toward reducing plastic pollution in our environment. Likewise, we should support innovations that do not put natural resources to waste.
What do you want to leave behind for future generations? A clean and beautiful Georgia? Or a country plagued by contaminated soil and litter-filled waterways?

This art object was prepared as part of a new pilot project on waste separation, supported by the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Accelerator Lab.

photo Arkady Kats

Eight million metric tons. That’s how much plastic is dumped into the world’s oceans each year. This is the equivalent of nearly 57,000 blue whales. Every. Single. Year. At this rate, by 2050, there might be more plastic in the ocean than fish.

Plastic in the ocean is eventually broken into smaller pieces — microplastics — by sun exposure and wave power, after which it can find its way into the food chain and eventually onto our dinner plates. During the degradation process that can take up to 400-500 years, harmful toxic chemicals are released, further threatening both the oceans’ health and our wellbeing. 
The first steps in fighting plastic pollution are to make waste visible, and to learn and become accountable.
Broad positive changes start with individual decisions. Even small steps such as cleaning up after yourself or others will have an impact and can inspire others. The more responsibility people take for their waste, the faster systemic change will happen. 

Waste can also be a good resource with which to create new things. For example, five plastic bottles is enough to make one new t-shirt.  

Recycling your waste is another important step toward reducing plastic pollution in our environment. Likewise, we should support innovations that do not put natural resources to waste.

 What do you want to leave behind for future generations? A clean and beautiful Georgia? Or a country plagued by contaminated soil and litter-filled waterways?

This art object was prepared as part of a new pilot project on waste separation, supported by the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Accelerator Lab.

The PLASTICMAN isn't just a sculpture, it's more about how to see plastic as a reusable material, rather than trash that ends up on landfills. PLASTICMAN lives in Chateau Chapiteau, in magical georgian forest full of endangered trees. I didn't use any new materials- only plastic bottles, that I found around and those we already collected in the recycle house. In the end it was more than 250 bottles.

photo Daria Fedorova

Road sign "Have protected sex. Have environment protected." is an honest conversation with youth. Georgia is still struggling with high rates of teenage pregnancies, STDs and numerous rape cases as sex education remains excluded from the school curriculums. I've established this work next to the Tbilisi sea : one of the most popular car date places among youth. The main material are the condom packages I've gathered around the Tbilisi sea.

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photo Daria Fedorova