Czech artist Veronika Richterová decided to do something with PET plastic bottles and now creates life-like sculptures from the repurposed material.
Foxy - Recycled Plastic sculptor, Creating cutting-edge sculptures using rubbish, let's make Art, not waste.
Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastic and reprocessing it into
Hoping to give plastic recycling a boost, this designer has created a prototype that could allow people to recycle and produce plastic products locally.
Images Curtesy of Sometimes the things people create, are so beautiful, so absolutely magical, and lovely that you can’t even imagine what the creation is even made out of. It’s even mo…
Plastic waste. It is everywhere. Every year, about eight million tons of plastic get into the ocean, and scientists estimate that there may be as much as 110 million tons of plastic trash in the ocean. A study published last Wednesday in Science Advances by researchers from the University of Cádiz in Spain and several other institutions show that a major ocean current is carrying bits of plastic, mainly from the...
These exquisitely embroidered plastic bags from a series of works called El Barrio Bodega by artist Nicoletta de la Brown seem to make a poignant statement about the impact that disposable materials, like plastic bags, have on our lives.
Can art inspire action to stop plastic pollution? Explore these twelve works of art on plastic pollution that put the spotlight on single-use plastic.
One artist who is using repurposed plastic waste in her work, with the aim of inspiring people to take action, is Aurora Robson.
To end marine plastic pollution, we need to understand how waste travels to the seas.
An impression of yesterday: Precious Plastic at the Dutch Design Week! Amazing what these guys all put together! Impressive 💪
How to Recycle HDPE Plastic the Easy Way: After spending 2 hours cutting up a single milk bottle with kitchen shears, I knew I couldn't do it again. I felt like a late night infomercial and may have actually uttered the phrase, "There has to be a better way!" Turning old milk jugs and…
The magic of science makes these recycled plastic flowers beautiful. It's a great STEM / STEAM project for kids.
Advocates against single-use plastics say cleaning up the world's oceans will take individual efforts and policy change.
How to Recycle HDPE (milk Bottles and Caps) Into Usable Sheet Material: I discovered an easy way to recycle HDPE into small sheets of tough, rigid material, using a flat sandwich toaster. Here's a video of the process: And here's another showing various ways of working the plastic material: Source…
DIY shrinky dinks are an easy and fun way to decorate your windows. Use our tutorial to make your own shrinky dink paper.
This is what happens on boring rainy days. We do school work stuff, and then mom starts melting things. This time it was a seltzer bottle that was waiting to be thrown into recycling. I decided that I need some earrings made from a recycled plastic bottle. Here is how they came out (I rather
the collection by sebastian herkner features traditional woven plastic in combination with a tubular steel frame, typical of colombia’s caribbean-coast region.
These are some of the work undertaken by the group workshop CG Recycled art, made from different materials are recycled and reused. The fish is made with
Make plastic bottle butterflies with this easy recycled art activity and learn about Monarch butterfly migration.
Learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a huge sea of plastic trash in the North Pacific—part of an even broader plastic plague.
Portuguese graffiti artist Bordalo II's 'Endangered Dreams' Unicorn sculpture, made entirely of trash in Aberdeen, Scotland
Young and Rubicam Paris have worked with Surfrider Europe for ten years and created some of the best advertisements I've ever seen, in any sector. Here's five of my absolute favorites.
Plastics play an important role in our lives. Plastics are used to manufacture many everyday items and have significantly reduced the use of glass. Some plastics are very durable and make things like furniture and appliances. Other plastics make items such as diapers, trash bags, cups, utensils and medical devices. The largest amount of plastic […]
More than 5 trillion pieces of plastic weighing 268,940 tons are floating in the Earth's oceans, according to a new study published in PLOS ONE. This latest estimate is based on models of floating plastics data gathered from a series of 680 surface net tows and 891 visual surveys from oceans around the world.
Here's how I like to make plarn (PLastic yARN) for The Ultimate Recycled Market Bag pattern. It works great for me, and the 1/2" (1 cm) width makes it fairly easy on the hands and arms when working it up. This is double-stranded plarn, produced by joining loops cut from plastic bags. 1. The easiest type of plastic bag to work with is the kind you get at the grocery store. It’s not very stretchy, and it’s fairly thin. Don’t use produce bags--they’re too thin.* And be sure your bags are not biodegradable. 2. Smooth the bag out flat. Fold it vertically 3 times, smoothing flat each time, until you’ve got it about 1” (2.5 cm) wide. 3. With scissors, snip off the bottom seam and the handle section at the top. Save as packing material, or recycle. 4. Starting at one end of your folded bag, snip off 1/2” (1 cm) sections. When unfolded, each will be a loop. 5. Connect the loops the way you would connect rubber bands: a. Lay out two loops with the left loop overlapping the right one. b. With your left hand, reach through the left loop, come up under the right loop, and grasp the overlapping right end of the left loop. c. Then pull it back the way you came: down through the right loop and back up through the left loop, until tight--with plarn, don’t pull too tight or the loops will break. 6. Keep adding loops on the left, using the last-connected loop on the right, making sure the two sides of each loop are even. You can hold the last-made knot in your right hand to help with this. 7. Roll the connected loops into a ball, and you have plarn! * Note: produce bags are too thin for plarn unless you use 2 loops together when you connect them. ----- You can find more tips and variations for The Ultimate Recycled Market Bag pattern in the following posts: Saving Your Hands and Arms When Using Plarn Cotton Yarn Market Bag T-Shirt Yarn Market Bag My Old Crochet Hook
1.5 mm - 1050A H14 - Aluminium Sheet
Bottle Cap Murals have become a unique way to create art for your school, and teach kids about helping the environment! An oak tree is ou...
