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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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karola Dierichs
Prof. Dr. Lucy Norris
Daniela Burger
Dr. Mareike Stoll
Färbewerkstatt: Anne Hederer
Siebdruckwerkstatt: Louise Drubigny + Daniel Mecklenburg
Fotowerkstatt: Kristina Strauß + Heike Overberg
Rapid Prototyping Lab: Björn Bernt
Prof. Dr. Bernd Schmidt
Dr. rer.nat. Dipl.-Chem. André Lehmann
Dr. Wayne Best
Tina Seeman
Mariella Gabler
Dr. Michaela Eder
Dr. Franziska Jehle
Johanna Hehemeyer-Cürten
Eva Becker
Tchaomegot: Arnod Paquet
Eva Bullerman
Franziska Siebenhaar
Elfi Wallisser
Marie Michael
Leo Lamprecht
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