ANN ARBOR, Mich. — is a custom-built public art installation and film experience designed to encourage visitors to think more about the enduring impact of single-use plastics.
The store in Ann Arbor, Michigan, features shelves stocked with items such as meat, eggs and cakes -- all made from single-use plastics taken from streets and garbage dumps. The store at times during the day will be transformed into a stage for a series of short films in which puppetry and handmade sets are used to tell a story of the dangers of plastic waste and the consequences for future generations.Plastic bags are created by fossil fuels and often end up as waste in landfills and oceans.Americans toss out 100 billion plastic bags per year, according to Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental research organization.
Fake plastic trees by Radiohead is playing in my head right now
Are you supposed to eat the plastic? Is this where we are at now? Eating discarded plastic?