Everyday Plastic

By Daniel Webb

After collecting all of his plastic waste for an entire year, Daniel Webb was commissioned to produce a giant billboard-size mural that went on display at Margate’s vintage amusement park, Dreamland.

Following analysis, Daniel’s collection of waste was found to consist of around 4,500 pieces of plastic, of which 93% is single-use throwaway packaging, with only 4% of it being recycled in the UK.

Having laid out all of the plastic to the exact size of the billboard, the piece was photographed by Ollie Harrop using a 5m high by 6m wide rig and the items were captured at actual size. The final piece measures 13m wide by 4m tall, and such was the volume of plastic, it required 20 individual photos to be taken and then stitched together in post-production.

“It’s a colourful, abstract and beautiful representation of my life in 2017, yet it shows the extent of the problem of disposing of our plastic waste responsibly,” says Daniel.