#recycled plastic

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Iberian lynx

“Bordalo II’s Iberian Lynx is a new art installation made from garbage and plastics in Lisbon’s Parque das Nações neighborhood.

This sculpture made of colorful pieces of plastic was put together for the Lisbon +21 Conference, which brought together youth ministers from around the world to discuss various topics, including the environment and the future of the planet.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[wrinwrinsignal]

Product Sproutling

[ranocchiasimpatica]

Soo,

I've been following the Precious Plastic project for a while now: it's a project for small scale plastic recycling, based on sharing knowledge open source so that anybody in the world can access it for free.

I think i'll write more about this in the future, i totally love what they're doing, but recently the project celebrated its 10 year anniversary and they made a lovely recap video. I think more people should see it: precious plastic has a superstrong real life community, but their youtube channel doesn't have that big of an audience because it was started only one year and a half ago. So,

Here's the link:

And i hope it will reach as many people as possible!

[solarpunkbusiness]

Australian company produces 'world-first' recycled plastic bed

Would you consider sleeping on a recycled bed? Each year, thousands of bed frames end up in landfills, a growing concern for environmentalis

Australian company produces ‘world-first’ recycled plastic bed - Video in link, no text

[jeffalessandrelli]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/climate/plastic-industry-internal-documents.html

Paid influencers on TikTok. An infomercial hosted by Dennis Quaid. Pushback against the Olympics’ single-use plastic ban.

A trove of documents leaked from an influential industry group shows how some of the world’s largest petrochemical and plastics companies have been waging a campaign to push back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment” — especially among young people concerned about the environment.

The industry group, the National Association for PET Container Resources, or NAPCOR, worked to deliberately obscure its connection to the campaign and make its content “authentic and from the creators’ viewpoints,” the documents show.

PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate, the plastic used to make single-use soda bottles and clamshell containers.

The corporate strategizing laid out in the documents provides a behind-the-scenes look at a battle being waged over the future of plastic. Nations are gathering in Busan, South Korea this week to hammer out details of a global plastic treaty that might tackle pollution at its source, by limiting its production — an approach that the plastic industry has vehemently opposed.

[lennyjamin]

handbound flower book, probably 2021

[k00278300]

I worked with my piece of woven plastic and other recycled plastics with embroidery hoops to create disruptive lenses.

My goal is to use them as camera lenses to physically disrupt the vision of the viewer as well as disrupting the subject in the work.

[thejewellerybox]

Pumpkin Lovers necklace by Tatty Devine