ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

In 2006, the United Nations EnvironmentProgram estimated that every square milehosts some 46,000 pieces of floating plastic.So vast is one area of concentrated trashin the northern Pacific Ocean, confinedby slowly circulating currents, that it hasbeen named the Great Pacific GarbagePatch. A Greenpeace report that same yearestimated that 80 percent of the ocean’splastic garbage begins its long life on land.Much of the remainder is spillage directlyfrom the plastics industry, which shipsplastic around the globe in the form of tinypellets, called nurdles, that eventually endup on our supermarket shelves after beingcoloured, melted and moulded into ourubiquitous disposable products.20