HazMatters
Edie Everette
Brightwater
A clever comic book about hazardous waste features colorful illustrations and interactive activities to encourage safety and health.
Edie Everette’s HazMatters (Porque los productos tóxicos son peligrosos) comic book cleverly reveals the many ways household hazardous waste intersects with our everyday lives. Printed in an 8.5-inch by 11-inch full-color format, its pages are covered with vibrant illustrations and interactive activities, such as simple recipes for making nontoxic cleaning solutions and soaps with common household ingredients. Full of useful information, it explains, for example, why you shouldn’t put hazardous materials in the garbage and where you should take them instead.
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My story is about reciprocity—if we care for our environment it cares back, and vice versa. It is about stretching milliseconds of impulse control in order to provide a future. It is about a challenge to become a bigger person after looking at a comic book. It is about how the universe calls out to us, and whether we choose to listen. It is about getting under someone’s skin by creating sugar to help the medicine go down. It is a story about the ways humor, beauty and love can root us in reality and transcendence. – Edie Everette
Everette is a visual artist, cartoonist, and writer impassioned by culture and politics. To request a free copy of HazMatters, call the Household Hazards Line at (206) 296-4692.
About the LocationBrightwater
Science, art, design, and ecology come together at Brightwater, one of the largest wastewater treatment facilities in the world. Located north of Woodinville, WA, Brightwater comprises a park, a community gathering space, an exhibition hall, and a scientific learning laboratory in addition to the structures that house technical operations. Throughout the site, integrated and portable…
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