The surreal installation with 168 thousand recycled straws, a wave of plastic that overwhelms us

    From simple plastic straws to a work of art to denounce pollution. With his latest project called Strawpocalypse, photographer Benjamin Von Wong wants to send a very important message for the planet.

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    From simple plastic straws to a work of art to denounce pollution. With his latest project called Strawpocalypse, photographer Benjamin Von Wong wants to send a very important message for the planet.





    A straw used for a few minutes can resist even 500 years, thus fueling the catastrophic hypothesis made by scientists according to which, in 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the sea.

    Benjamin Von Wong is famous for his installations that denounce one of the evils of our centuries, namely pollution. His latest work was made with the collaboration of Zero Waste Saigon, Starbucks Vietnam and dozens of volunteers who collected 168 straws from the beaches that were then transformed by the photographer.

    Strawpocalypse looks like a Van Gogh painting and sends a very important message: each of us can make a difference, to reduce pollution. Starting right from the straws, since there are at least five reasons not to use them ever again.

    The surreal installation with 168 thousand recycled straws, a wave of plastic that overwhelms us The surreal installation with 168 thousand recycled straws, a wave of plastic that overwhelms us The surreal installation with 168 thousand recycled straws, a wave of plastic that overwhelms us

    Plastic straws are the disposable symbol, more than a billion are used worldwide, in the United States alone 500 million are consumed every day. The data are those of the Plastic Pollution Coalition which also tells us that straws are among the top 5 waste collected on the coasts in Europe.
    And here is where the installation goes in this direction, encouraging people to reduce or eliminate them since they cannot be recycled.

    When he decided to create this marvelous work, Benjamin Von Wong realized that he could get 100 straws for just ten dollars. But that wouldn't have been the right spirit, so he took a longer path.

    The surreal installation with 168 thousand recycled straws, a wave of plastic that overwhelms us

    The result was a collaboration with Zero Waste, Starbucks Vietnam and hundreds of volunteers who collected straws for six months.


    The result? That's what you see: the open sea in two and the waves represented by different colors: green, blue, black and white for the foam.


    The idea was designed with the help of Nick Moser, a technical builder from San Francisco and Stefan Suknjaja, designer. The installation is more than three meters high and therefore represents the sea separated from the plastic.


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    Dominella Trunfio

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