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hic C ss ine n so ilt Bu Rita Lacey gets miffed when people say she sells trash. After all, she’s on a mission to solve the spate of waste littering the world. Lacey owns Close the Loop, a retail shop in Kunkletown, Pa. that specializes in recycled products and green materials. Even though her products are made from recycled waste, she’s undaunted in her mission when people bemoan her products as “junk.” She said her goods are a constructive resource that can solve a worldwide problem—whittling down an unfathomable quantity of garbage. The amount of trash produced is inconceivable because it’s tucked away in landfills, piled high in tire yards, or floating in our ocean in masses that outnumber plankton. Passionate Calling When Lacey stumbled upon Seattle photographer Chris Jordan, who specializes in pointillism with waste, the statistics about garbage stopped being numbers and started becoming real. Pointillism is the art of taking small, distinctive dots of color to create the impression of a vast array of colors. These colorful dots make up a larger image. Jordan photographs mass consumption. He takes staggering data—such as 2.4 million pieces of plastic equaling the number of pounds of pollution entering the oceans hourly—and creates large, intricately detailed composites assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Jordan injects statistics with life. For instance, he takes the idea of 2.4 million pieces of plastic, and creates from — Edited by Jasmine Grimm —
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