Archipelago Centre Korpoström

Today we visited the Archipelago Centre Korpoström, the photo is from there. We went to see a travelling exhibition called Plastic Garbage Project. On the way back to the villa, we had lunch at Hjalmar's. 

Today is Emma's birthday, our baby is now 18! Family and friends made her day special ♡

Ever since mass-produced plastic products have made our lives easier, the sea has gradually begun to change into a gigantic soup of plastic—every year more than 8–12 million metric tons of garbage reach the oceans. The center of the exhibition and symbol of the ecological catastrophe is an installation consisting of plastic flotsam from various oceans, above all from Hawaii.

 2015 top ten collected items:

2,127,565 Cigarettes and cigarette filters
1,024,470 Plastic beverage bottles
888,589 Food wrappers
861,340 Plastic bottle caps
439,571 Straws and stirrers
424,934 Plastic bags (other)
402,375 Glass beverage bottles

Source: International Coastal Cleanup Day 2015

 


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