Recycling or Relocation?

A 5 part Map Series which highlights the little-known reality of UK plastic waste: genuine recycling is far less common than it might be assumed. By tracing plastic waste from a national (UK) to global scale, it illuminates how our individual actions and choices are fundamentally connected to global environmental issues - despite it being easy to feel disconnected at times.

To produce the following output, I used a combination of ArcGIS, QGIS & R Studio for extensive data cleaning & compilation, geoprocessing and visualisations; stitching the final story together on powerpoint.