Page 0: Page 1: Try to guess what the following images are. Page 2: What is this? Page 3: Page 4: 426,000 cell phones discarded daily. Page 5: What is this? Page 6: Page 7: Page 8: 200,000 cigarette packs, the same number of Americans who die every six months due to smoking. Page 9: What is this? Page 10: Set-up of thousands of small pictures, showing the traces of 11,000 planes, the number of commercial flights taking place in the U.S. every 8 hours. Page 11: What is this? Page 12: Page 13: 170,000 batteries are produced every 15 minutes. Page 14: What is this? Page 15: Page 16: 65,000 cigarettes. The number of Americans under 18 that start smoking every month. Page 17: What is this? Page 18: Page 19: 1 million of plastic cups trashed every six hours in commercial flights. Page 20: What is this? Page 21: Page 22: 60,000 plastic bags, discarded every 5 seconds. Page 23: What is this? Page 24: Page 25: 2 million plastic bottles, dumped every 5 minutes. Page 26: This is not a picture. Page 27: Page 28: It’s 106,000 aluminium cans, thrown into the garbage every 30 seconds. Page 29: This is WASTE ART. These pictures are part of the exhibit "Running the Numbers, an American Self Portait", of photographer Chris Jordan, highlighting the millions of objects that accumulate in the planet, well beyond our sight. The numbers mentioned were obtained from the quantities of waste discarded only in the United States. Imagine what world figures are! Page 30: Environmental degradation is a cumulative effect of the actions each one of us takes... Therefore, the solution also lies within each one of us. Help our planet! Think before you use! Reduce, reuse, recycle… GIA – Grupo de Impacto Ambiental Adaptado de: Superinteressante, Ediçã o 247, Dez/2007. Fotos: www.chrisjordan.com Page 31: