Ethical blindness : plastics, disposability and the art of not caring

I could go on with statistics and disturbing accounts of the cultural and environmental every whereness of plastic, but that is not my aim. All I want to note is that this material is not something we are separate from. We are thoroughly mixed up with plastic literally and metaphorically, we live with it in complex patterns of economic and toxic interdependency, we have a shared future with it. And it is this reality that poses significant challenges for investigating how to live well with this material. In taking up this challenge, I want to consider one particular aspect of plastic" its disposability: the way in which this incredibly durable material became classified as 'single use', as suitable for the production of throwaway objects. More specifically, I want to investigate the relationship between ethics and disposability.