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Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch

As a little girl, Ingrid would accompany her father on his errands and get lost in the aisles imagining all the things she could make from the bits and pieces she came across. Since that time, hardware stores have been the inspiration for many of the mixed-media sculptures that Ingrid creates.

In Ingrid’s own words; “I see the beauty in common objects and hope that others will too. I use everyday items like steel nuts, washers, vinyl plumbing tubing, clamps and coke cans and transform them into something entirely different from their intended purpose. Through this metamorphosis, I try to draw the viewer in to take a closer look at materials and objects that ordinarily go unnoticed and see them in a new light.”

For more information, please visit Ingridgoldbloombloch.com

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Nike Announces World Cup Shirts Made Entirely From Recycled Plastic

Footballers including Cristiano Ronaldo and Robinho will take to the pitch in the World Cup in South Africa this summer wearing shirts made out of recycled plastic bottles.
Nike announced yesterday that for this first time its nine national teams, which include Brazil, Portugal and The Netherlands, will wear tops made entirely from polyester.
The environmentally-friendly move will see each shirt made from up to eight recycled plastic bottles.

Manufacturing the shirts this way has prevented nearly 13million plastic bottles, totaling almost 254 tonnes of polyester waste, from going into landfill sites.
This amount would be enough to cover more than 29 football pitches.

To make the 2010 national team kits, Nike’s fabric suppliers sourced discarded plastic bottles from Japanese and Taiwanese landfill sites and then melted them down to produce new yarn that was ultimately converted to fabric for the jerseys.
This process saves raw materials and reduces energy consumption by up to 30 per cent compared to manufacturing virgin polyester.

News Source: Daily Mail

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Sarah Turner Eco Art & Design

Sarah Turner is an eco artist & designer who specialises in making decorative lighting from waste plastic drinks bottles.  The bottles are collected from cafes and households in Nottingham, and then they are cleaned and sandblasted.  Then with some clever cutting they are transformed into decorative shapes, totally unrecognisable from their original state.

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Only 5.5% of plastic waste drinks bottle are recycled in the UK.  So these lights aim to do something creative with them and overall save a few bottles from the landfill sites.

Oasis Lamp

Sarah graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 2008 and has been developing her ideas since.  Her work has been shown at several exhibitions including the Ideal Home Show 2009, where her drinks bottle lights were awarded second place for Concept Product of the Year.  She has also been short listed for the Nottingham Creative Business Awards and has been interviewed live on the BBC Radio Nottingham’s programme, Design Heroes.  She has a Facebook group you can join to keep up to date with new designs and events and her lampshades are available to purchase from February 2010 on her website: http://www.sarahturner.co.uk.  (direct to the drinks bottle products is http://www.sarahturner.co.uk/products.html )

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Join the Sarah Turner Eco Art & Design Facebook group Here

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