Video of the Week – Sea Chair

By Dan Hutton on July 13, 2014 in Video

Sea Chair from Studio Swine on Vimeo.

Since the discovery of the Pacific Garbage Patch in 1997, which is predicted to measure twice the size of Texas, five more have been found across the world’s oceans with the Atlantic gyre predicted to be even larger. This plastic takes thousands of years to degrade, remaining in the environment to be broken up into ever smaller fragments by ocean currents.

The gyre stretches from the coastlines of California to the shores of Japan. Recent studies have estimated 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer of the world’s oceans. The number of plastic pieces in the Pacific Ocean has tripled in the last ten years and the size of the accumulation is set to double in the next ten.

Sea Chair is made entirely from plastic recovered from our oceans. Together with local fishermen, Studio Swine collected and processed marine plastic into a stool at sea. They filmed the process to create the poignant video above.

So next time you think of tossing that plastic whatever it may be, think again. Our oceans will one day thank you.