Monument against plastic pollution
Awards: Winner of 'Plastic Monument' Competiton
Location: Worldwide
Program: Temporary plastic monument to be installed in prime locations around the world in order to raise awarness about the impact of plastic pollution on our planet.
Status: International Competition 2019, 1st prize, Completion expected 2020
Design: VATRAA
Team: Anamaria Pircu, Bogdan Rusu
Some plastics last up to 1000 years in our landfills and oceans while others might never biodegrade. We could argue that plastic waste is our legacy to many generations to come.
Taking the form of a trilithon, one of the oldest form of structure inherited from our ancestors, the monument draws the attention to the consequences of our actions in the long run, to the fact that what we are doing today might stay on Earth forever.
The installation poses a stark contrast between a single-use, disposable material and the eternity of the trilithon. Made of pressed PET bottle bales - the raw material for the plastic recycling plants - it educates the public into the recycling process by illustrating of its first steps, just before the material is shredded, washed and melted into new bottles.
The dimensions are inspired by the Great Trilithon of Stonehenge. The 670 cm tall uprights with 90 cm lintel on top relate to both human scale and city scale.
