The range of plastic refuse one encounters at the Falls of the Ohio State Park is both numbing (it’s obviously trash and shouldn’t be here) and morbidly fascinating (the design sensibility and colors ) catches one’s eye and occupies the mind. Consider the variations in something as mundane as “spray bottle triggers” if indeed this is what you call these things? I’m not sure when I started noticing these objects and photographing them…but here they are. Each adventure to the river is sure to garner multiple images and story lines that I sift through at my leisure. Consider this a personal cleansing of the spray bottle trigger palette. Ironically, much thought went into designing each of these beauties to facilitate dispersal of their contents from plastic bottles. I like the rotating tips that give me options such as “spray” or “stream” and so forth. These triggers are ingenious and they do their jobs well. Without further adieu and fanfare…here are more images from an admittedly odd collection.
One final image in closing. You know you have “arrived” when a cute miniature is produced. Here’s a recent find from a sandy bank of the Ohio River at the Falls of the Ohio State Park.
Artist at Exit 0 Riverblog 
When I do slow down, I occasionally find myself amazed at the ingenuity of the daily items I use and the care that went into their designs. Then I think of how most of the time we don’t even give a second thought to them. It’s a weird feeling.
Now you understand my impulse to photograph and examine the junk I come across.
I find their design so intriguing as there is no need for aerosol. It is just so silly to throw them out when the bottle is empty. You can re-use and re-use and re-use…
Of course you are right…these spray bottle mechanisms bear re-using. Whenever I feature some plastic elements I find locally, I also can’t wrap me head around all the petroleum this represents.
wow, there’s a real beauty in this…. and then I wake up and think of the insanity of single use plastic bottles…
That’s what gets me too Sven. We can pay close attention to how to get a liquid out of the bottle, but not how to deal with its empty container when the mission is accomplished.