Chris Jordan's Doing It

Chris Jordan is using art to help make a statement about America's consumption and waste. There is a series of several projects shedding light on recycling and waste in a completely different way.



His 2009 project, "Midway" focuses on the amount of plastic consumed by birds:

These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

~cj, Seattle, October 2009

Check out his other projects focusing on the amount of bottles, cans, paper bags and plastic cups used in America daily at

Elephants, Gorillas and Recyclables (Oh my!)

Yeah, lots of people are doing it, but in different ways. Animals are coming alive, one can, bottle and wire hanger at a time. Recyclable art is becoming a change in our way of life.

Check out these incredible sculptures done by artists making a difference:

 "Great White Elephant" created by Mike Sims, entirely of milk bottles.

 "Gorilla" created by David Mach using wire hangers.

 "Pegasus" created by Sarah- Jane van der Westhuizen using metal car pieces. 

"Horse" created by Yong Ho Ji using used tires.