#travellingarbage

  • Marofiny ( 33 years ) as she collects water from the Fiherenana river for her family of five for washing , cooking and drinking . The reused jerrycan and car oil container form together the ideal size and weight for her to carry back to the village of Bekoaky 1 km away . What will be the future of those useful plastic containers once they break ?
  • A hen takes rest with her playful chickadees after morning foraging . The garbage that is revealed with the low tide on Nosy Be island gives an opportune meal for those who look for it . What is the effect of what our consumables eat on our diet ?
  • A juvenile giant damslefish carries the remnants of a nylon net on her body on the coral reef in Diego Suarez north of Madagascar . 70 years since their introduction to our life , nylon , polyester , polypropylene and polyethylen are key pollutants in our seas and oceans today . At this rate of pollution , how many years can the oceans’ ecosystems thrive ?
  • A house closure made from fan grills on Nosy Be island . The quality of the electronics we buy correlates with their respective life expectancy. Thus , we have a direct impact on the amount of garbage produced by making conscious purchases .
  • A martin finds passage between the electricity cables and the plastic garbage stuck on them a late afternoon in Antananarivo . Is it really the kind of sky we want to view ?
  • A kite picks up speed above a house closure littered with plastic , nylon and victim kites . Kids in Antananarivo resort to garbage to do their kites since most can’t afford commercial ones . Is our garbage already on the moon ?
  • Tony ( 24 years ) is a student . Whenever he can , he searches for bottles for his mother to clean and re-sell . This hill of glass garbage in Tulear has been there for more than a decade . When will these glass bottles decompose ?
  • Early morning in Antananarivo , a man finds a good location to clean his truck . A couple of kilometres away , a woman finds a good location to dispose of her black water . If each of us decides to deposit our garbage where it’s convenient for oneself, what effect will that have on the quality of our life ?
  • A herd of zebu rushes to a waterhole in the Fiherenana river in Tulear one late afternoon . Not far , a pile of plastic bottles collected at the centre de stockage et valorisation des déchets in order to be recycled . Normally they will be burnt to melt and mixed with sand in order to produce pavement slabs . Although the black slabs are durable , the method of production still raises many questions about safety . Why do we still accept and encourage the production of plastic bottles ?
  • The way back from school in Antananarivo . In addition to soil pollution , how many diseases host a burning garbage mountain ?
  • Two youngsters preparing a flooded land for planting on the Ikopa river in Antananarivo next to a dumpster . What are the consequences of consuming products coming from polluted soil or water ?
  • Tolotra ( 10 years ) and Daria ( 11 years ) play soccer with their homemade nylon ball, which is , not so well balanced . The littered terrain in Antananarivo next to their playground had caught fire that afternoon . Although that same pile was the source of their ball , the fire didn’t bother them at all , « there will be more tomorrow for sure » they told me . What are the effects of random garbage fires on the quality of the air we breath ?
  • An artist draws Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary African leader . Nearby in the same street on Nosy Be island littered cartons from a supermarket await their destiny . What inspiration would it take to revolutionise our current logistics system to a sustainable worldwide network ?
  • Ms Sahondra ( 62 years ) and her husband Mr Robert ( 64 years ) in front of a stack of cartons their team had collected throughout the morning . They make a living for themselves and a team of eight ( mostly family members ) from retrieving , cleaning , packaging and re-selling used carton from Antananarivo’s imports . Humankind currently produces two billion tonnes of waste per year . In 2019 , the global waste recycling services market was valued at 53.71 billion U.S. dollars = 214,499,005,519,908 ar .
  • Ms Ranolily ( 64 years ) poses in her shop on a busy street in Tulear . Since the retirement of her husband ( 12 years ago ) , she’s been making a living for her family of six almost exclusively through retrieving , cleaning and reselling plastic , carton , tin and cans . The shop where she poses for the photo serves as her workshop , living room and bedroom for five . What if plastic becomes the only long lasting resource on earth ?
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