Steven Bridgland (United States) www.instagram.com/bridglandsteve

Our Environmental Legacy
Giving Litter A Voice

“The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year,
but the litter of mankind has more permanence.”
~ John Steinbeck

Too often we conveniently overlook litter in nature – choosing to ignore the jarring shapes and colors of our daily waste that distastefully decorate the earth.  We expect Mother Nature to digest our detritus and absorb our pollution. 

This photographic project attempts to give nature a voice by confronting the viewer with litter in nature alongside the 2008 poem, Litter, by MF Cowan. 

I invite you to change your behaviors today in order to shape your own environmental legacy for tomorrow.  One piece of litter at a time, be it yours or someone else's.

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Litter Bridge	Litter Bridge There’s litter all around us. There’s litter on the street. There’s litter in the bushes. There’s litter at your feet.
This Seat is Taken	This Seat is Taken Pick that litter up son. Take it over there! I know you didn’t drop it And I know that life’s not fair!
New Shoots	New Shoots It’s always someone else’s fault. It’s never ever me. Here today, gone tomorrow Moved elsewhere for free. But someone has to clear it. That someone must be paid. That someone must be paid by you As they clear up with their spade.
Litter Leaves	Litter Leaves And what about the animals Who try to reach inside The going moldy bag of crisps (Barbecue, deep fried)?
Soda Tree	Soda Tree You dropped the packet And thought, oh what the heck You could be trapping something By the feet or claws or neck.
(R)Eject!	(R)Eject! And doesn’t it look filthy as it flutters in the wind? The bag of chips and chocolate wrapper You really should have binned.
Firework	Firework None of us like litter Though we liked what came inside. Perhaps it’s time we cleaned up our act Restored our sense of pride.
Going Down the Drain	Going Down the Drain There’s litter all around us And it’s a filthy sin, When at your feet just yards away There lies an empty bin.

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