Plastic Cutlery Skeleton -- A Telling Verdict On Society's Disposable Mentality

Some sources claim that 100 billion individual disposable pieces of plastic cutlery are used and disposed of each year around the globe. That's a lot of junk.

In the U.S. alone, the amount of plastic forks and knives that are thrown away each year -- 40+ billion -- could effectively circle the equator 300 times.

Made out of petroleum -- a non-renewable resource -- disposable plastic cutlery can take an estimated 500-1000 years to break down in a landfill into smaller components.

What you are seeing here is just one of many entries in this year's D&AD Student Awards, but I think that it stands out for obvious reasons.

This skeleton is composed completely out of plastic cutlery by London-based Kingston University students Laura Bowman, Jamie Breach, Ashley Maine, Elliott Mariess and Lewis Woolner.

A comment on our utterly wasteful society and the ironic nature of our disposable fast food culture, somehow we still manage to continue to embracing our quick fix despite the global famine around us.

Is this enough to make you swear off of disposable cutlery for good?