Two Million Plastic Bottles Used in the U.S. Every 5 Minutes

Below is a partial zoom in on Seattle artist Chris Jordan's piece Plastic Bottles 2007. It's part of Running the Numbers, An American Self-Portrait: a series exploring contemporary American culture through visualizations of austere statistics.

Jordan's imagery also represents the number of...

  • Americans in prison
  • Cell phones retired every day
  • American children with no health insurance coverage

This series exhibit opens Sep. 8 at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Plastic Bottles


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