In the West, 95% of broken Monoblocs end up in the trash, which isn´t the worst thing: Polypropylene is a thermoplast and can be recycled easily if the trash is properly sorted. In other regions of the world, the price of a plastic chair often equals a day´s work salary or more, and people go to great lengths trying to keep the furniture. Below a short richly illustrated look at different approaches.

More monobloc plastic chairs in, on top or some other way fixed to various motorized vehicles..

“A victim lies outside a hotel after the explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. Police spokesman, Col. Abdilahi Hassan Barise, says three Somali Cabinet ministers are among nine people killed in a bombing that ripped through a university graduation ceremony, and says the ministers for education, higher education and health were among those killed in the blast. ..”

An image (click to enlarge) Christian Y. Schmidt took in June 2007, when he traveled from Shanghai to Kathmandu along China´s equivalent to the US Route 66 – the national road 318. In the photo the bank of the Three Gorges Reservoir in Wanzhou, a city that largely descended into the reservoir when the water level rose. In Christian´s book “Allein unter 1,3 Milliarden” he describes the place and the atmosphere half-way through the process quite poignantly.

The BBC has a video report about an incident at some regional parliament in Argentina, involving – you guess..

Three outdoor installations, using though not necessarily endorsing the Monobloc; from Seoul, Montreal and Melbourne.