Toxic Legacies / Filtering the Truth
The concept of recycling has gained immense popularity as a sustainable approach to waste pollution and is embraced as a potential solution to our escalating environmental crisis. However, not all recycling practices – especially when it comes to plastic – are necessarily environmentally friendly. In many cases, claims to recyclability are merely greenwashing, a marketing strategy used by companies to position themselves as environ- mentally conscious without implementing actual changes in their production practices. My master project aims to investigate the greenwashing behind recycling and how the concept of recycling can tend to justify the production of waste in a consumer-based system.
The concept of recycling has gained immense popularity as a sustainable approach to waste pollution and is embraced as a potential solution to our escalating environmental crisis. However, not all recycling practices – especially when it comes to plastic – are necessarily environmentally friendly. In many cases, claims to recyclability are merely greenwashing, a marketing strategy used by companies to position themselves as environ- mentally conscious without implementing actual changes in their production practices.
My master project aims to investigate the greenwashing behind recycling and how the concept of recycling can tend to justify the production of waste in a consumer-based system.
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Yarn
The three different yarns are 100% cotton,
felting yarns dyed in the ashes, tobacco and
filters, displaying the variety of colours that
are possible to achieve with the elements in
discarded cigarette butts. The yarn dyed in
tobacco was coloured through a cold process,
soaking in water and tobacco for a week.
For the ashes to properly stick to the material,
I dissolved the solution used for screen printing
on textiles in water and let the yarn sit in
that for a few days. For the yarn with the filter
to get a slightly reddish / pink tone, it was
heated for about an hour to release the colour
from the thermo-reactive dye into the material.
All yarns are then wrapped in handmade
paper and screen printed with the ashes.
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