It's one thing to say the world is drowning in plastic. It's another t...
SINGAPORE - It’s one thing to say the world is drowning in plastic. It’s another to show it.
Data compiled by the United Nations show 8 million tonnes of plastic - bottles, packaging and other waste - enter the ocean each year. “The numbers were staggering but still really hard for people to comprehend what that really looks like,” Scarr said. “I wanted to visualize this as actual piles of discarded bottles.”
And to illustrate the hail of plastic, the 3D model assumed that the bottles would be dropped from a height of 49 meters, equivalent to a trash shower from the top of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris or Cinderella’s Castle in Florida’s Walt Disney World. The work-around was to connect a dozen Reuters computers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bengaluru and London into what became an ad hoc “render farm” to harness the computational power needed to make and edit the animation.
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