Work: When Will the Corals Bloom Again?
Author: Irena Gregori Cazenave & Marek Nowaczyk
brooch – coral, silver, plastic bag
This object is a comment to Marek Rekus work “What's Up at The Bottom of the Ocean?”
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The drifting patch, whose area is 1.6 million km² and estimated mass 45–129 thousand tons, in 99.9% consists of plastic, most of which is photodegradable. Such material does not fully decompose but breaks down into dust. Both plastic dust and larger waste become part of the trophic network. Indigestible elements block the digestive system and cause the death of marine animals, including more than a million birds and about 100 thousand mammals annually.