Plastic Worlds Competition, Global Design Contest Call for Entries, Architecture, Architect
Plastic Worlds Competition
Eleven magazine Design Contest Open for Registration
19 Sep 2018
Plastic Worlds Competition
Eleven?s latest challenge is an effort to fight plastic waste in our waters by focusing on rivers and oceans

Eleven?s new competition ‘Plastic Worlds? is now open for registration. Eleven invite creatives and visionaries from all around the world to join in and fight plastic pollution through raw creativity, imagination and talent.

Plastic pollution in our oceans is one of the biggest environmental problems we are facing today on our planet. It is no longer an occurrence reserved to isolated pockets of our earth, but rather a booming global phenomenon. We are now witnessing the exponential growth of a world-wide plastic epidemic, as our planet is becoming covered in man-made waste. Every year, we produce over 300 million tonnes of plastic. By design, plastic is virtually indestructible and hence very hard to deal with as waste in an ecological way. Between 8 to 12 million tons of plastic pollution end up in our oceans every year, fuelled by gigantic river systems which pump the discarded plastics from our cities to our seas
This is quickly killing our planet?s marine life ? from plankton to whales, corals, birds, seals and turtles ? and destroying their delicate ecosystems. But this is just the beginning, as the amount of plastic in the ocean is set to incr...