Choking Hazard (2012)

• 80%
• 2012
• Joanna Priestley

A recycle symbol peels up and a discarded plastic tub is dropped into it. The tub swirls downward into a recycling bin. A truck pulls up, belching smoke and the plastic tub flies in as it rumbles off to a municipal recycling facility. The tub gets sorted by machines and squeezed into a big bundle. Another truck drives the bundle of discarded plastic to a container ship where it is picked up by crane and plopped on deck. The ship crosses the ocean and lands in China where the bundle is removed by a crane and loaded onto a third truck (more belching and rumbling). Destination is a large factory that pulses, pops, emits pollution and makes lots of noise. The factory belches and out pops a cheap, plastic ducky toy. The complex, polluting transportation process reverses and the plastic ducky toy lands back in the USA.