[Zardoz]

*sits in front of monitor in stunned silence*

We have no clue whatsoever how unsustainable our way of life is. Virtually all of us think we can go on like this forever.

[Colorado-Valley]

Those works are simply amazing ... and scary ... and humbling.

[FoxV]

wow, seeing those pictures life size must be mind numbing

[pitbull]

They should have done one for how many barrels of oil are consumed every day

[Aimrehtopyh]

I love how he purposely misspelled Denali.

[snowshoegal]

Brilliant, well-executed and effective. The artist's statement is wonderfully concise. I would love to see these photo-montages in person. Jpgs, books, slides, copies, posters, etc. often just give you a sliver of what a piece of visual art can offer. To spend time with the piece of artwork in real life is to truly experience it.

[manu]

Wow! The lemmings really are flying over the cliff!

[FreakOil]

Out of the 426,000 cellphones "retired" everyday, how many are actually broken and how many just aren't cool enough anymore?

[snowshoegal]

How to Recycle an Old Cell Phone

[FreakOil]

The motherboards of phones can still function for a long time even after the phone is broken, at least that's what my friend has told me. The old phones can be dissassembled, after which the motherboards are purchased and shipped to China, or some other locale where refurbishing taked place.

The refurbishers then reassemble the phones using the old motherboard and new components. But this is where problems begin. The refurbishers often reassemble the phones using counterfeit components, or they reassemble the phones using motherboards that have been permanently damaged, or both. Sometimes they even use cheap counterfeit motherboards with cheap counterfiet components. The rules of the black market apply: Do whatever you can get away with to make a profit, including labor exploitation. Those phones are exported and sold worldwide.

In theory at least, the motherboards - if not damged from water - could be recycled and resold for upwards of a decade, depending on the quality of the motherboard. There doesn't have to be as much waste in the life cycle of a mobile phone as their is, if only consumers and businesses were more conscientious.

Ultimately, no matter how efficient the recycling system, waste is the ultimate result of consumerism. Everything degrades to the point of uselessness, at which point it is discarded. The best we can do at this point is make things less bad.

We need a paradigm shift in thinking, not just recycling.

[Baldwin]

For this waste, our society deserves what we believe is coming to it.

Then again, who am I to deal out death and judgment?