Cristina de Middel Mexico. 2021.
Mexico has started a plan to reduce it´s plastic production and use in 2021, but it still produces more than 7 million tons of plastic every year and almost half of them are destinat
(...) ed to packaging related to food.
In the market of La Merced, the biggest one in Mexico City, tha traditional way of preserving and transporting food (banana tree and corn leaves) cohabit with the use and abuse of plastic that can be seen everywhere.
Plastic brings and extra feeling of security especially during the pandemic but its use remains quite capricious and abusive. © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos
