It's often difficult to visualize how our daily consumption habits play out on a grander scale, how every water bottle we discard contributes to a growing, worldwide problem. A group of activists known as Luzinterruptus is providing one memorable visual in the form of a "Labyrinth of Plastic Waste."

 

"We were looking to demonstrate, in a poetic manner, the amount of plastic waste that is consumed daily," Luzinterruptus explained in their statement. "In addition to focusing attention on the big business of bottling water, which leads to very serious problems in developing countries."

 

In May the artists did just that, traveling to Poland to partake in the Katowice Street Art Festival. The artists spent four days crafting a 22-foot by 16-foot maze, stretching 11 feet high, comprised of over 6,000 water bottles. The artistic materials came from a local manufacturing and bottling plant, where they'd been discarded for not meeting the standards required to sell them. The remaining bottles were donated by locals who contributed the bottles consumed during the four-day artistic process.

 

The water bottles, dropped into transparent bags and lit up with autonomous LEDs, were then suspended from a metallic structure to create a massive, maze-like structure.

 

The piece was up and running for two weeks, open day and night, after which it was disassembled and, not surprisingly, recycled completely.

 

"We are very happy that in Poland it is finally compulsory to recycle," Luzinterruptus concluded. "Three years ago, when we were in Warsaw for the first time, they did not do it, but now it seems that the practice is taken very seriously."

 

See the group's hallucinatory brand of environmentalism below.