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Shocking Photos of People Lying in Trash
Started by Night Angel 11-7-14 .

We are all aware of the global pollution problem, but hardly anyone realizes just how much trash we produce daily. Gregg Segal, a photographer from California, aims to show this problem through powerful imagery, photographing people lying in their weekly load of trash. His ongoing project cleverly called “7 Days of Garbage” tries to portray people from different social backgrounds to reach largest audience possible .

Segal decided to photograph the participants in front of naturalistic backgrounds to show that the garbage produced by us is effecting it directly. “Obviously, the series is guiding people toward a confrontation with the excess that’s part of their lives. I’m hoping they recognize a lot of the garbage they produce is unnecessary”, he said to Slate.

Some of the participants were too ashamed of how much garbage they produced weekly, so they edited their garbage bags. Others showed everything just the way it was resulting in nasty and very strong images, which you can see here.

Shocking Photographs Of People Lying In 7 Days Worth of Their Trash | Bored Panda
http://www.boredpanda.com/7-days-of-garbage-trash-pollution-photography-gregg-segal/

crays 18-7-14 2014-07-18 16:55:07

That's alot of stuff to be used by a single person!

These images are indeed strong, but sometimes i think people need a real life crisis to see the truth, strong images can only bring people to realize so far.

Night Angel 19-7-14 2014-07-19 00:04:07

Yes! Only when people die, the government starts to do something. That's like the truth in every city and country...

So the power issues from fossil fuels, I believe only when everything is really used up, then people will all start to think about clean and sustainable energy...

crays 20-7-14 2014-07-20 11:54:05

That is very true, probably human nature. I would say that people will really start venturing and dumping money into clean and sustainable energy when our fossil fuels boils down to the last few percent.

McLaranium 21-7-14 2014-07-21 06:22:53

"los animales no contaminan ni tiran basura,
les pedimos por favor compórtense como animales"

(advise printed in some place, I saw a photo, don't know where).

Post edited 21-7-14

Night Angel 21-7-14 2014-07-21 15:16:40

Maybe that's true. Animals are not wasting anything in nature because they just take what they need, and become part of the nature. Human is just being greedier and greedier and perhaps only when nature is completely ruined, will human then realize what they should have (not) done....

Nohbudy 25-8-14 2014-08-25 13:31:59

Recycling should be a habit, all the metals and plastic, and some of the paper can be recycled. Most electronics can be re-purposed, or recycled. By cutting those out of our trash, most of the rest are biodegradable. It takes more energy on our side, but by making it habitual to use a recycle can first then we can make good steps.

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