Planet or Plastic?

ArtScience Museum will welcome Planet or Plastic? – a photography exhibition by National Geographic – to Singapore this September. The exhibition shines a spotlight on the fragility of the natural environment as a result of the global plastic waste crisis.

Opening on 12 September, Planet or Plastic? is the first exhibition to launch at ArtScience Museum since it re-opened after Singapore’s Circuit-Breaker.

Featuring 70 powerful images from photographers around the world, Planet or Plastic? tells the story behind plastic from its invention just over a century ago to its mass consumption today. The exhibition endeavours to raise awareness of society’s dependence on plastic by visually depicting the global plastic waste crisis and highlighting the innovative individuals and communities who are working on solutions to this urgent problem. The show builds upon National Geographic’s multiyear global initiative aimed at reducing the amount of single-use plastic that reaches the ocean.

Planet or Plastic? makes the important case for the need to find a balance between using this material and protecting our environment. It provides actionable steps visitors can take in their lives to responsibly reduce, reuse, recycle, and refuse products with single-use plastic. At the culmination of the exhibition, visitors are encouraged to make a pledge to reduce their own consumption of single-use plastic.