Four ladies from the village of Napua pose with 40 new glasses cut yesterday from old bottles at the Trashure studio after an intensive recycling workshop to prepare their wares for the village festival. The women take not only the glasses and a new cutter back to their community, but the idea that waste can be creatively transformed rather than just trashed. Since their last workshop in January they have come up with their own new ideas and creations– more to come on this!
A Bianca Lattern: using the cut bottle tops we made a prototype candle Lattern (so named after its inventor).
“Unauthorized Use Prohibited”: how about “Unplanned Product Packaging Prohibited”? Liquor bottles, like so many other corporate products, have dead-end packaging life-cycles, and thus end up as pollution– except for this one which is now a glass! Power to the people.
