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.
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.
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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