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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Halloween, like every holiday, produces tons of items to purchase that become unused or wasted once that one night has passed. While dressing up and getting candy is fun ...
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.
Approximately 6.3 Bt of this was discarded as waste, of which around 79% accumulated in landfills or the natural environment, 12% was incinerated, and 9% was recycled - only ~1% of all plastic has been recycled more than once. [6] More recently, as of 2017, still only 9% of the 9 Bt of plastic produced was recycled. [38] [39]
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]
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.
Robson's primary focus is creating works made with plastic collected by intercepting the waste stream, [6] [7] repurposing plastic into art before it is sent to recycling. . While her initial work was with common household plastics like water bottles and caps, she is currently focused on large scale sculptures made with industrial plas
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