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10-01-2016, 12:40 AM
Activist wears month's worth of trash to visualize our wasteful habits
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Ever wonder how much trash you accumulate in a month?
Rob Greenfield (http://robgreenfield.tv/), an adventurer and activist in New York City, is on a mission to show you.*
In a specially made suit, Greenfield will be wearing every piece of trash he creates for 30 days while living like the average American, creating around 4.5 pounds of trash per day.
SEE ALSO: Actress-turned-activist Emma Watson narrates inspiring short film on women's equality (http://mashable.com/2016/09/26/emma-watson-womens-rights-video/)
"We live in an era when it’s so easy to have ** idea of how any of our daily actions impact our community...or the earth as a whole," he told Mashable in an email.
His project, titled "Trash Me," hopes to challenge the, "out of sight out of mind mentality," and provide people with a visual understanding of how much garbage we create, especially on an individual level. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/30/activist-rob-greenfield-trash-suit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Ever wonder how much trash you accumulate in a month?
Rob Greenfield (http://robgreenfield.tv/), an adventurer and activist in New York City, is on a mission to show you.*
In a specially made suit, Greenfield will be wearing every piece of trash he creates for 30 days while living like the average American, creating around 4.5 pounds of trash per day.
SEE ALSO: Actress-turned-activist Emma Watson narrates inspiring short film on women's equality (http://mashable.com/2016/09/26/emma-watson-womens-rights-video/)
"We live in an era when it’s so easy to have ** idea of how any of our daily actions impact our community...or the earth as a whole," he told Mashable in an email.
His project, titled "Trash Me," hopes to challenge the, "out of sight out of mind mentality," and provide people with a visual understanding of how much garbage we create, especially on an individual level. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/30/activist-rob-greenfield-trash-suit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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