RSA: Plasticity exhibition

Essentially the exhibition at the Science Museum was about Plastic and it's origin and different forms that have evolved to exist today.

The most interesting aspect about the exhibition was it's layout. Filled with ceiling high plastic floating bright red panels, made it very inviting and of course attractive. Which I think is an extremely important aspect of any display. Not to forget the upside down world, with tables and chairs fixed to the ceiling.

Although some facts were too detailed for my understanding, what I did like is how simply it was explained on little cards alongside the display. It was very fascinating to see the different uses of plastic and how much we use it.

The pen chandelier, if I may call it that, was the most interesting. Even though we all know pens are made of plastic, it's an invisible fact to us.

Bags, shoes, dentures, trash bins, chairs, tables, lipstick packaging.. the list is endless - all that is made of plastic. Plastic has countless uses.. without it, it seems as though our life would cease to function normally!

At the end of it, the question we must ask our selves is that despite knowing how harmful plastic is for our environment, we have habitually become accustomed to it to the extent that it's existence has been almost invisible up until there was a global scream about going green - is it fair to our environment? As human beings is not our responsibility to protect the Earth?

With these issues, I gained an insight into the vast world of plastic and our ignorance of it as well. This helped me narrow down in my head, the idea of awareness.