Twenty-First Century Waterfall

Computer animation comparing the
US rate of plastic water bottle
recycling (approx. 100
bottles/second) to the nonrecycled
rate (approx. 845 bottles/second;
see image) for 2005.

This computer animation was made to
raise awareness about bottled
water, and its surprisingly poor
recycling rates. Since its recent
popularization, bottled water (in
all its flavors) has become
ironically one of the most
consumed, yet least recycled
beverages. For example, it is
estimated that in 2005 alone
approximately 30 billion plastic
water bottles were purchased in the
US, with only about 12% recycled
(in part due to out-dated deposit
laws), and the remaining 25 billion
bottles landfilled, littered or
incinerated.

Reduce, reuse, recycle. Innovate.

Project webpage:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~djames/bot...

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  Film & Animation

[swedishvolvo]

Lazy asses just reycele its not that hard.

[grybold]

There are so many other things like this in the world today that people don't realize just because it is "out of sight, out of mind." They think they are only throwing away one bottle, but if everyone thinks that same thing, this video becomes the shocking reality. We ALL need to recycle, EVERY bottle that we use. And remember the order of priority is "reduce, reuse, then recycle."

[ninjaobsessed]

Funny how all the plastic we chuck goes back to the Earth from which we extracted it.

[swedishvolvo]

Wow, how time flies!

[HabsJays93]

no worries friend, and just 5 years later!

[HabsJays93]

no you misspelled recycle, you only forgot the apostrophe on it's

[Shunmite]

great video. and nice representation of consumerism and recycling

[mcconkeyco]

excellent idea, and a frightening but effective visual... Recycle!!

[dayspeace]

hope people would continue take action to recycling things.