
Informed by the
announcement of the EU parliament that from next month on,
single-use plastic eating utensils, swizzle sticks,
drinking straws, etc. will be banned, a design duo from Germany has exhibited as part of the London Design Biennale an installation called
“Spoon Archaeology” of two decades of collected, curated strata—all part of a theme for a pavilion on ecological awareness and sustainability by putting problematic disposables on display as artefacts of the past that they should be consigned to. More from Dezeen at the link above.