Unclean, Green

This project has been extremely eye opening and has greatly changed my perception on the waste that is littering our environments.

 

Before starting this project, I obviously knew that there was a global problem and that the wrongful disposing of rubbish did happen but after deciding on this subject and getting a closer, intimate view into the natural environmental world it really hit hard just how much more rubbish I was starting to notice.

 

Even now while writing this personal account, I can think of the waterways that I visited within the Waikato and Bay of Plenty areas being constantly littered with the waste of human consumption. As I only gave myself a one hour time limit and a certain distance to maintain, I couldn’t actually collect all the waste that I saw.

 

However, now as this project comes to a close I really think that I’ll be more conscious about the world we live in and the damage that the wrongfully disposed rubbish is doing to a country that prides itself on the clean, green image.

 

I want to revisit the locations that I have collected from as well as others around my local area and collect the waste that everyone notices but doesn’t act on their thoughts of having a clean environment.

 

The locations that I visited during this project are Waihou River, McLaren Falls, Waihi Beach and a smaller stream along Old Te Aroha Road, located about twenty minutes south of the small town of Te Aroha. I think that the variation in location works well and shows the comparison of how humans use these areas of water with the rubbish that had been left behind as well as the washed-up waste that has been moved by the natural forces of the running water.

 

The overarching message is of informing people with the photographed scale of rubbish alongside the beauty of how these locations could and should be viewed if tended to with care and the rubbish was discarded of correctly.

 

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A quick but necessary note.

 

Take the rubbish with you and do your part to help the longevity of our planet, the wildlife, ourselves and the view that both locals and visitors have on our country when it comes to our amazing natural environments.

 

Preserve the state of beauty and don’t leave the clean-up for the quickly incoming generations of people to use these spaces.

 

Rubbish bins and recycling bins exist for a reason, use them.