Archive for March, 2009

Trash Into Treasure: SMART Art Competition

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Calling all trash arstists!

Enter the Adventure Ecology and Sculpt the Future Foundation’s SMART ART ‘TRASH INTO TREASURE’ competition.

Show the world how discarded items can be redesigned, reused and re thought by turning every day waste into works of art and everyday functional items.

Via MAKE

Ghana tra$h shore – the pix

Monday, March 2, 2009

Over a couple of very depressing pages in Sunday’s edition of my morning paper, SvD, I could again follow Mattias Hagberg (read our previous interview with him!) to Ghana. Today, I am “happy” to be able to tell you that the pictures from the piece, taken by Karl Melander, can be viewed in a slideshow at the web edition of the paper. Not the  “Atlantic coast beach” most of us are used to.

Weekly Compactor

Monday, March 2, 2009

recycled felt ring by The Garbologist's Wife

recycled felt ring by The Garbologist's Wife

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