End Notes
I
t is estimated that Americans throw away
50 billion food and drink cans, 27 billion
glass bottles and jars, and 65 million plastic
and metal containers and lids on a yearly basis.
Furthermore, it is estimated that more than
30% of our waste is from packaging materials.
Approximately 85% of this refuse is sent to a
dump, or landfill, where it can take from 100 to
400 years for things like cloth and aluminum to
decompose, while glass has been found in perfect
condition after 4,000 years buried in the earth.
With today’s heightened environmental
awareness, some creative individuals have decided
to recycle the saying “one man’s trash is another
man’s treasure” into “one man’s trash is another’s
expression of art.”
Trash art, also known as recycled art, has
transitioned into mainstream America. From first
grade projects to park sculptures, this new form
of urban alchemy reconstructs the most abundant
of materials: garbage. But the common thread
doesn’t end there. Today’s designer divas have jumped in and
turned dumpster diving into yet another art form with fashion
clothes and accessories made from recycled materials.
There’s a real art to going green these days and the
nouveaux-creators are taking the three R’s of the environment
to a whole new level. No matter what the appreciation has been
in the past, today’s individual taste towards an object, whether
emotionally or physically, can be viewed with environmental
inputs.
Lisa Burke aND CourTNey grammer
www.sandsifters.org/21.html Web site for statistics above.
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