We called it The Junk Garden Project (because a lot of junk ended up in our garden)...
Ceramics can't be recycled; the glaze prevents them from decomposing.
They're simply cast aside onto the ever-growing, enormous waste pottery mountains of the world....
Here's one we made earlier.
They get crushed. CRUSHED and made into drain filler.
Centuries of ceremony and workmanship.
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Yes I know. Porcelain isn't plastic.
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It doesn't strangle poor little sea turtles.
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But it does suffocate the earth.
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And mining more clay damages our environment.