Site 1
Started on April 30, 2012, this site took seven days, until May 6, to collect the trash and organize it into type. This is a trash layered site. It has much hidden in the grasses and buried under the soil. I visited the site over the course of a week and each time I thought all the visible trash was collected more seemed to appear, as if migrating to the surface. There are many layers of accumulated debris and trash.
I have written to the Hackney City Council to request the pick and disposal of the trash I have amassed. I await the response.
00 – The site in located in Hackney Wick at the bottom of the pedestrian overpass spanning the East Cross Route (A12) from Victoria Park. Click here to see live map.
26 – The site as it appeared before collecting and organizing the trash. Seen in the photo are helium canisters, a beer keg and a large red flammable gas canister. What you can’t see is the myriad trash hidden in the undergrowth. Image taken from the atop the pedestrian overpass.
25 – Visibly layered trash
24 – Road hazard cones. See Cone Spin video here.
23 – Draggin branches to the pile.
22 – Bundle of branches.
21 – Collecting cardboard.
20 – Tire tower.
19 – Survey of the collection thus far – May 3.
18 – Various gas canisters – 14 helium canisters; 3 beer kegs; 1 flammable gas canister (red).
17 – Tin cans.
16 – Glass bottles.
15 – Plastic (PET) bottles.
14 – Found objects.
13 – Large plastic containers, including two hazard cones.
12 – Brush pile.
11 – Area cleaned of trash, mostly.
10 – An amphora made of beeswax left on the site during the cleaning process.
09 – Detail of the beeswax amphora. Neglected.
08 – Survey of collection.
07 – Vehicle registration plates.
06 – Final pile of plastic bottles.
05 – Final pile of tin cans.
04 – Three piles: glass bottles; tin cans; plastic bottles.
03 – Total of unclassifiable rubbish/trash gathered in green garbage bags.
02 – Final size of the pile of brush.
01 – Final survey as seen from atop of the pedestrian overpass.