A coworker passed this video on to me.
Gets the point across.
Disposable – The Billion Cup Blood Bath from Zac Whyte on Vimeo.
Photographer Chris Jordan uses photography to illustrate the staggering scale of human consumption. In this series of pictures titled Paper Cups he depicts 410,000 paper cups – equal to the number of disposable hot-beverage paper cups used in the US every fifteen minutes.
Pretty shocking and appalling.
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