It's hard to go throughout the day without producing plenty of trash, due to all the non-reusable packaging and food products we buy.
Though there is no doubt that the entire world produces entirely too much trash, it's hard to understand exactly how much garbage we generate.
And though there are plenty of creative crafters out there that turn wasted items into works of art — like this imaginative sculptor — it's still a lot of work to consciously reduce our wasteful habits.
But activist Rob Greenfield is on a mission to make people a little bit more mindful of their garbage with his own special experiment.
Throughout the month, he will be showing people exactly how much waste the average American produces — by wearing it as a suit!
His custom-made plastic bag-laden suit will allow him to attach all the garbage he creates in one month onto he body, then walk around the streets of Manhattan to show it off.
Check below to learn more about this interesting experiment.
[H/T: Mashable]
Everyday we produce a pretty impressive amount of trash, whether we are throwing away food, mail, or old junk around the house we no longer have a use for.
Though there’s no denying that each of us makes a lot of trash, it is hard to visualize exactly how much waste we generate in a year, month, or even a day.
But activist Rob Greenfield has concocted an experiment that highlights how much trash he specifically produces in a month.
By wearing a custom constructed plastic bag suit, he can showcase how must waste he is making — by wearing it!
In his experiment titled “Trash Me” Greenfield will live like a normal New Yorker, while slowly sporting more and more litter he creates throughout the month.
He is hoping that when people see so much junk staring them in the face that they will attempt to produce less waste.
"We live in an era when it’s so easy to have no idea of how any of our daily actions impact our community…or the earth as a whole," he explained to Mashable.
The average American creates around four and a half pounds of trash per day, so Greenfield’s suit will likely get pretty heavy by the end of the experiment on October 18th.
Along with standard trash-able items, he will also be putting recyclable items on his body since around 75% of the American waste stream is recyclable according to the EPA.
He was also be adding 20% of the food he eats to the suit, since that is the amount that people apparently throw away.
The garbage suit is definitely eye-catching, though Greenfield explains that it won’t be as smelly and uncomfortable than one might think.
He wants the suit to catch people's eyes rathe than offend any of their other senses, so he is sanitizing all the trash he puts into the suit and the food waste will be placed in ziplock bags.
He and his peculiar suit will also be talking at several schools and events to spread his message about garbage awareness. Though it looks like a lot of work, the suit looks like it is successfully drawing crowds and making people pay attention.
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