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Organizers hoped to "creatively raise awareness about plastic debris and pollution in the ocean," specifically the Great Pacific Garbage Patch trapped in the North Pacific Gyre, by sailing 2,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean on a 30-foot (9.1 m) raft made from an old Cessna 310 aircraft fuselage and six pontoons filled with 15,000 old plastic ...
Venice Biennale installation by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.
Art made of commodity materials sometimes uses found objects made of plastic. [3] [4] Plastic containers are useful in papier-mâché for building frames. [5] Environmental artists are using salvaged beach plastic to create art as a means of bringing awareness of plastic pollution in Earth's oceans.
Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, also known as Bottle Village, is an art environment, located in Simi Valley, California. It was created by Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey (1896–1988) from the 1950s to the 1970s. Prisbey built a "village" of shrines, walkways, sculptures, and buildings from recycled items and discards from the local landfill.
Recycled glass is a necessity, as without it, manufacturers would not be able to keep up with the demand for new glass containers. [2] Recycling one glass bottle can save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes. [5] In fact for every 10% of cullet added to the production of a new bottle, energy usage goes down by 3-4%. [2]
A watering can made from recycled bottles Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Recycling can reduce dependence on landfill , conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
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This re-usable carrier bag has been made from recycled plastic bottles. It is an example of open-loop recycling In open-loop recycling, also known as secondary recycling, or downcycling , the quality of the plastic is reduced each time it is recycled, so that the material eventually becomes unrecyclable.