There Is Art in Rubbish

Here are beautiful pieces of creative art. This sculpture is fashioned from used toilet rolls. Cut and insert is the method, however the beauty of it!

Art can be created from almost all disused material. Paper is a medium with wide applications from origami, making greeting cards, puppets, or building blocks for larger pieces (think Lego bricks and apply the simple but reliable SCAMMPERR formula).

Before you carelessly and clueless discard that hollow cylinder of hard cardboard, perhaps you may be inspired to toy with a pair of scissors and exacto-blade.

Recycling Done Right

My recent trip to Berlin, Germany was a revealing one. Not only for participating in its world-class annual marathon across amazing historical scenery, but also for its brilliant Recycling Movement.


Beyond mere separation of plastics from glass from paper, Berlin prides itself for keeping its streets responsibly clean, with a reward system. At supermarkets, patrons can return used PET bottles through sorting machines that return credit coupons (exchangeable for cash at the checkout lines) for the amount of 0.15-0.25 Euros per bottle.


We had great fun feeding the bottles through the cutout hole in the receiving machine. The bottle travels through a small conveyor belt that then goes through an internal sorter. Surely you pay more for a PET bottle with its filled contents, but you do get back like a trolley-cart at the supermarket after you return it.