Pre-thinking Before Recycling

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You know sculpture has been an important of culture since ancient times. It's an art of making -three dimensional works of art. A statue is an image such as a person or animal, that is sculpted in a solid substance. The Statue of Liberty and Rodin's The Thinker are two well-known statues.

Sculptures may be carved, chiseled, cast, modeled or constructed. They can be made of many different materials such as wood, stone, bronze, iron, steel, paper, marble, soap, clay, metal, chocolate, butter, snow, sand, ice and even balloons.

Maybe these materials will be no longer to use anymore;) You wonder how? It is possible to create interesting funny artwork by fishing your garbage!

Do you like water animals? A jelly fish, sea floor, anemone...


Miwa Koizumi, a Japanese artist, develops ''products'' using liquid containers like PETs, the ones which we used to get in our life: water bottles. Her creations are indeed extraordinary, as seen in the photos above, a series of water animals. No material fees. She does not depend on any suppliers, but hunt for the bottles herself. She has even made an aquarium using old plastic bottles. The gallery presentation of her PETs is in display in New York, check out her website.


PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) is very natural, it is made from oil, which comes from really old plants. A PET is highly recyclable and it can be transformed again and again to un-imagined uses.

The tapestry seen above in the photo is made from plastic grocery bags by another artist; a beautiful recycled art.

Lets try to reduce waste by "pre-thinking" our purchases. Recycling is, of course, a positive thing. However it still requires energy to transport the materials, melt them down and then re-manufacture items. Here are some useful tips:

~ Buy items that come in recyclable packaging instead of non-recyclable.

~ Bring your own utensils with you instead of using plastic ones.

~ Buy in bulk, avoid individually wrapped items.

~ Use a computer instead of reading "real" magazines and newspapers.

~ Use cloth handkerchiefs and napkins.

~ Avoid junk mail.

And, of course, reduce and reuse as much as you can, FIRST! With reference to my previously posted article;

''All is for a Green world,
because nature can't wait until tomorrow''