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Treasured Trash: The Art of Recycling |
| Section: THE ARTS / CRAFT & DESIGN |
| Author: Karen S. Chambers |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 2,081 Words, 13,131 Characters |
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The old saying "history repeats itself" has a new meaning. Instead of a caution against making the same mistake twice, it could become a slogan for recycling. In fact, the planet's future may depend on repeating history through recycling, that is, reusing materials either in their original form or transformed.
The reasons for recycling are more compelling than political correctness. Recycling is mandated in most of the states in the Union, and there is the very real question of what to do with the 1 million tons of aluminum cans, 2.6 million tons of glass, 20.9 million tons of paper, 242 million rubber tires, and 400,000 tons of plastic recycled annually.
Some 250 answers in the form of products made from recycled materials were given in the recent exhibition Hello Again: Recycling for the Real World, curated by Susan Subtle Dintenfass and Zette Emmons for the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York. Dintenfass, a writer based in Berkeley, California, suggested the exhibition to museum director Dorothy Twining Globus because "there's so much fabulous stuff out there that's recycled--such whimsy and wit, practicality and functionality. It varies from pop-top necklaces and vests to stationery made from old maps to bi-planes and 'oriental' rugs made from old tin can...
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...t amount--5,300 pounds. For me it's inconceivable to do anything with my magazines and newspapers other than pile them up for recycling. My fresh flowers, a renewable resource, are now presented in former jam jars. And drafts of this article were printed out on the reverse sides of earlier drafts. At the risk of being redundant, history repeating itself might not be such a bad idea after all.
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