Manufactured Landscapes

 Edward Burtynsky is internationally acclaimed artist due to his large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes".  These images include but are not limited to: recycling yards,s factories, dams, and old mines.  I saw his documentary, Manufactured Landscapes, and honestly i was not impressed.

People are acclaiming trash.  Trash is rather terrible.  Although people recycle, the combination of different types of plastics, i.e a grade 4 plastic cup, is not mixable with a grade 5 plastic.  These combinations are vast, and most of them are not able to be mixed. The average recycling contains a whole mix of different types of plastics.  Even though you are technically recycling, one may not comprehend this fact.

With this movie, I do not feel that Burtysnky's aim for this documentary has been followed correctly.  The fact that people are admiring landfills for beauty may subliminally call for an increase in consumption of 'recyclable' materials. Increasing the amount of debris in landfills is not doing any good.

I would ask you readers to watch the film to see if they have the same beliefs as I do, and if not, please repost why!