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- pathouston22, on 07/16/2009, -1/+146Considering all this stuff is sorted, it's all being recycled.
- ianmack, on 07/16/2009, -5/+118It's like WALL-E... only real.
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -16/+111Corrected:
Photographs Human Mass Consumption - FritoPendejo, on 07/16/2009, -6/+67Dude, you're not going along with the program here. It's all about furthering an idea... and that idea is WASTEFUL AMERICANS. We're not interested in facts and such.
- Ebacherville, on 07/16/2009, -1/+61Duh, where do you think he found all this sorted garbage... these were all being recycled.. nicely sorted piles..
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -6/+61If someone can figure out a way to recycle all of this junk they could make themselves awfully rich.
- slapded, on 07/16/2009, -1/+50all those people must have had a sprint plan
- TJ11240, on 07/16/2009, -12/+59I really hate our throw-away society. Its a shame we've associated consumption with prosperity.
- DextramPennae, on 07/16/2009, -0/+38Mass consumption is what you get when you have....masses of people!
This is what happens when you get masses of anything - for example masses of geese yields masses of goose poop, etc.
BTW, most of the stuff pictured does get recycled - the cars, the oil filters, the cartridge cases, the hard drives. Even the circuit boards are stripped of recoverable metals like gold. - Ki77erB, on 07/16/2009, -1/+33Shell casings are almost always recycled.
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -10/+39He took the pictures in the States, hence "American" Mass Consumption.
When he will do a series in Canada, you can call it Canadian Mass Consumption.
We have to stop pointing fingers at other people at some point, and recognize that change start in our own backwards. - MeLikeyTacos, on 07/16/2009, -1/+30Just about everything in those pictures will be recycled. They aren't sorting/piling up the junk just for the fun of it, they're getting ready to process it. And it's like this all over the world, not just the US.
But grr America bad, amirite? - sgvprelude, on 07/16/2009, -1/+28Scrap metal recycling is already a huge business. China buys lots of it.
- Fletchnuts, on 07/16/2009, -0/+24I doubt those brass rifle casings will go to waste. Probably being collected for recycling or reloading.
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -5/+26its a shame conservatives have associated intelligence with the devil.
- itmoves, on 07/16/2009, -1/+20Like that's unique about Americans..
- Ki77erB, on 07/16/2009, -1/+20WALL-E is not real? Oh my God!
*puts face in hands and cries* - cheddaro, on 07/16/2009, -1/+19Yeah, talk about a buzzkill.
You really know how to ruin an old fashioned freakout! - FritoPendejo, on 07/16/2009, -14/+31I can't believe the owners didn't want him trespassing on their property. That was so unfair of them. Good thing he didn't respect them or the law.
- kelly, on 07/16/2009, -6/+23If I were to believe digg, only Americans are wasteful
- manbearwire, on 07/16/2009, -8/+24Reminds me of the movie Idiocracy...with the great trash avalanche
- StigNordas, on 07/16/2009, -2/+16Chris Jordan is awesome, I hope to see his large graphics some day, they're enormous in person.
- TherealObadiah, on 07/16/2009, -0/+14I personally just bought 5 tons of shell casings. The other stuff is well sorted and will likely be recycled as well. No need to deceive people into thinking ths stuff just gets tossed out - it doesn't.
- askantik, on 07/16/2009, -5/+18Not all of that can even BE recycled, much less is. And either way, even if it was somehow ALL recycled (which it's clearly not), those things still take electricity and natural resources. It's still a problem, even then. The idea is not just to recycle, but to consume less ***** in the first place.
- thinkb4utype, on 07/16/2009, -1/+11The alternative is we keep using the stuff. So that gas guzzler from 1979 is still on the road, burning oil and getting 10 miles per gallon. That DOS computer is connecting to AOL by 2800 baud modem; there is no internet or digg. Your cell phone from 10 years ago is still your phone; Apple won't be selling any iPhones.
Yeah, we over consume, but sometimes there are good reasons for it. - drinkthepill, on 07/16/2009, -1/+11The cell phone on the right is mine.
- askantik, on 07/16/2009, -3/+13Most people don't have ANY idea what happens to their trash and they throw ***** away like it's going out of style. They either don't know or don't care-- either way, it needs to change.
- askantik, on 07/16/2009, -6/+15Good thing we have you, the moral place, to save us from ***** we need to see.
- UnFriendlyFire, on 07/16/2009, -9/+18Consumption = jobs
- jdames1980, on 07/16/2009, -0/+9Landfills are the mines of the future.
- saxquiz, on 07/16/2009, -4/+12None of those photos were shocking at all... If the photographer really wanted to push his liberal agenda he should have had some naked baby looking for food amongst the cellphones. This guy doesn't know what he's doing!
- TheDougem, on 07/16/2009, -1/+9I can't help but notice that all this stuff was sorted remarkably well, which is a positive.
One thing I'd like to see greens push more is trash processing. We figure out how to process our trash in better ways with filtering and what have you, we go a long, -sensible- way towards improving environment, business.. you name it. I mean, how nice would it be to throw everything in one bin, knowing that there was a process in place to do all the recycling necessary? - inactive, on 07/16/2009, -1/+9Wow I've never seen junkyards and landfills before.
- Chappync, on 07/16/2009, -0/+7Trust me, they are reclaiming all the gold, platinum etc. out of those circuit boards... not to mention the steel, copper yadda yadda from the cars, 85% or some such high number of the worlds steel is a re-run...
- bboyjkang, on 07/16/2009, -0/+7"If someone can figure out a way to recycle all of this junk they could make themselves awfully rich"
If someone can figure out a way to get nanobots to decompose all that junk, they will make themselves extremely rich - cygnus2112, on 07/16/2009, -4/+11It's a shame that Fox cancelled Firefly.
- bogdon6, on 07/16/2009, -0/+7Uh why? The way he found all this stuff was by going to placed that collected these things to recycle them. The pictures actual depict recycling in action.
- jbmcb, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7I'm guessing everything he photographed is going to be recycled, otherwise it wouldn't be sorted into batches of circuit boards, shell casings, oil filters, etc...
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -0/+7We should find some suckers to buy all of our scrap metal . . .
- RossDuprey, on 07/16/2009, -1/+8WE(Americans) import trash from other countries.
- JDanner3, on 07/16/2009, -0/+6That is probably why it is sorted, for recycling. I sure don't remember throwing my last cell phone charger in a special cell phone charger trash can.
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -0/+6Yes, all those cell phone are from just last week. Must be, we recycle so damn fast!
- MrSchler, on 07/17/2009, -1/+7Water? Like from the toilet?
- 0biKwiet, on 07/16/2009, -0/+6If it's being recycled, then maybe there's nothing wrong with the consumption. Were a nation of 350,000,000 people. Even at our most frugal, at will be consumed.
- EMJeney, on 07/17/2009, -1/+7Corrected:
Photographs OF Human Mass Consumption - novoare, on 07/16/2009, -7/+13Amazing photos of our waste.
- KMAR66, on 07/16/2009, -1/+7somewhere an Indian is crying.....alot
- RossDuprey, on 07/16/2009, -2/+7@fritopendejo - Ever heard the phrase: out of sight out of mind?
- inactive, on 07/16/2009, -5/+10Speak for yourself, but I'm keeping my backwards!
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