Best If Used By

By Joel Aron

On 21 February 2008

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Best If Used By

When I was younger, everything was thrown away into the same garbage can. As a child, it was almost a game on how much I could shove into the can before being told to take the trash out. For some reason, taking out the garbage was the chore that ranked very low on my list of things to do as a child. It was just above mowing the lawn, but tied with cleaning my room.

Now, decades later, after possibly taking out the trash many thousands of times, my methods have evolved. A second trash can emerged on the scene. It was strange at first, but with age comes respect for life and where we all live together, so I decided to do my part to lower the impact of waste on this planet. I learned to recycle.

I became curious one day, at the same time while driving around looking for things to photograph, and found myself at the dump. This time, I was not dropping off bottles of used film chemicals to the friendly people in white haz-mat bunny suits, I made straight for the recycle yard. There stood a wall of compacted cubes, each nearly the size of my car. Dozens of them, soon to be sent into a room with massive amounts of heat, and melted back to the liquid it once came from to be used again.


hasselblad 500cm : Kodak Portra 400VC

16 Responses

  • Frédéric Frognier

    On 21 February 2008 Frédéric Frognier gave props:

    Got my vote

  • Pilar Coll i Gatells

    On 21 February 2008 Pilar Coll i Gatells said:

    Bona! my vote

  • Portia Söderberg

    On 22 February 2008 Portia Söderberg said:

    You got my vote as well! Crisp shot! Excellent narrative too!

  • Jan Hoffman

    On 23 February 2008 Jan Hoffman gave props:

    Joel -- Perfect for theme and a real eye-popper; excellent! Good narrative.

  • Shannon Dagher

    On 28 February 2008 Shannon Dagher gave props:

    Wow...caught my eye immediately; perfect submission. :)

  • Stuart Robertson

    On 2 March 2008 Stuart Robertson gave props:

    great shot, if this doesn't say human impact I don't know what does.

  • Adrian Rodriguez

    On 2 March 2008 Adrian Rodriguez gave props:

    Nice texture.........You have my Vote

  • lowison

    On 4 March 2008 lowison said:

    Molto bella!! (mi ricorda anche alcune sculture di Cesar).

  • Patty Williams

    On 19 March 2008 Patty Williams gave props:

    i love when a thumbnail can draw me in...love the implied motion here, well documented

  • Fraser Ross

    On 22 March 2008 Fraser Ross gave props:

    Great shot that shows the impact we have on nature.

  • Paul Lavallee

    On 25 March 2008 Paul Lavallee gave props:

    great shot & words for this theme

  • On 26 March 2008 Joana Garrido said:

    Fantastic.

  • Teresa Nabais

    On 30 March 2008 Teresa Nabais said:

    This is great! Vote +!

  • Rogério Freitas

    On 31 March 2008 Rogério Freitas said:

    Great shot and colors.

  • Jarko

    On 21 May 2008 Jarko said:

    It inspires me the works made by the artist Arman

  • Polly Cole

    On 29 May 2008 Polly Cole said:

    love the scissors there in the middle. how random.

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