Started as a tongue-in-cheek pop-up store in New York City, The Plastic Bag Store gives us a sad and satirical look at our world, which is steeped, surrounded, and filled with plastic.
The items in the store look pedestrian and normal until you look closer, and realize they’re all facsimiles of the real items, labels altered and skewed.
It’s sobering reminder of just how much we rely on plastic, and how much of it we still waste and pollute, despite years and years of knowing better. The installation is the work of Robin Frohardt.
[…] our article The Plastic Bag Store Shows Us the Absurdity of the Plastic Era, an absurdity which sees us rely on one-use packaging that pollutes the world. That packaging uses energy and creates emissions whilst being created, then clogs up waterways and severely affects sea life when we dispose of it. Make a difference today, ditch the plastic bags, containers and bottles wherever you can. […]