ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月30日 22時09分

Museum conservators are racing to figure out how to preserve modern artworks and historical objects that are disintegrating. Of an estimated 8,300 million metric tons of plastic produced to date, roughly 60% is floating in oceans or stuffed in landfills. Most of us want that plastic to go away. But in museums, where objects are meant to last forever, plastics are failing the test of time. “I find plastics very frustrating,” said Malcolm Collum, chief conservator at the @airandspacemuseum. Because of the material’s unpredictability and the huge variation in forms of deterioration, he said, “it’s just a completely different world.” Metal, stone, ceramic and paper have survived thousands of years, while plastics have existed for a little over 150 years. In that time, however, they’ve risen to dominate the materials we use today. And plastics increasingly appear in art and artifacts nominated for preservation. “You have these objects in any museum collection, especially historic objects — they take you back to a time,” said Odile Madden, a plastics conservation scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute in LA whos trying to find a way to help plastic live forever. “But holding that moment in time in a material sense is tough.” @melissalyttle took this photo of Odile holding a piece of degrading plastic. Visit the link in our profile to read more about the fight to save plastic treasures.

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