ECO ART: Reclaimed Garbage Transformed Into Amazing Sculptures
Most discarded objects such as plastic toys, utensils and metal objects will fall fate to an eternity in a landfill, but artist Sayaka Ganz sees a second life in them. In a move for both the planet and art , Ganz recovers all of this junk and upcycles it into animal shaped sculptures.
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ECO ART: Reclaimed Garbage Transformed Into Amazing Sculptures
Book Review: Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging
A coffee cup as a plant pot, coke cans for Halloween cape, a detergent bottle as worm harvester or washing tablet net bags for toy storage; these are all things people have done with the packaging they found in their daily lives. Reuse is often better than recycling, so when the consumer gives a packaging a second life before eventually recycling it wherever possible, he saves resources. The object he or she reused has gained the value of the item he or she would have had to buy otherwise
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Book Review: Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging