Recycled plastic art projects

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After posting about plastic pollution earlier this week (In Case You Missed It: Disposable Plastic Still Sucks), I realized that it is important to clarify where plastic pollution that ends up in t…

So proud of the students who worked on this little project for Enrichment Day today. And well done to Miss O for the careful planning behind the structure of our beautiful turtle made out of recycled plastic bottles! 🐢 I wish I took progress pics!

For Earth Day, the Kodiak High School Students created a massive Octopus work of art all created from marine debris. Image Credit unknown. via Pinterest

Three Plastic Bottles of differing sizes, cut out and peirced hung with an assortment of crystal beads and silver chains ( from broken necklaces) . Not the best photograph of this as when the sunlight hits it the colours really shine arround the room like rainbow droplets, but it give the general idea

There is an increasing trend for designing and creating products with recycled plastic. The approach of viewing recycled plastic as a resource opens up many different possibilities. For instance, South Korean designer Youngmin Kang who has envisioned the colorful AFF (Art From Factory) collection of furniture items using recycled plastic. These furniture pieces sport the raw texture of plastic and are gladly entitled as an art object from factory by the designer.

The Evolvoscope is a large scale re-imagining of a praxinoscope and a zoetrope. As you spin the lighted structure you can watch the evolution from monkey to man to robot and back again. Evolvoscope...