Taipei, Nov. 21 (CNA) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) said Monday that the construction of a new factory in Kaohsiung for the production of 28-nanometer (nm) chips is ongoing, with mass production scheduled to start in 2024 as planned.
In artist Tseng Yen-ting’s (曾彥婷) video Plastic Bowl, a cheery singer narrates a whimsical yet harrowing first-person life story of a plastic bowl: it takes 180 million years for a dead organism to fossilize and become natural gas or oil, 22 days to ship it to a factory, 96 hours to turn it into a disposable bowl, which is used for a mere 16 minutes at a temple banquet.
But that’s not the end.
The bowl breaks down into microplastics that remain in the ocean for thousands of years, and the tiny shards of plastic then watches as humanity leaves