Rolando Politi a.k.a. Kappo Kappino is on a mission: to help people see the beauty in things discarded, namely trash. And recently, he’s been focused on one specific kind of trash: the bottle cap, mostly plastic. Since they’re made of a different type of plastic than the containers they seal, most recycling centers don’t take ‘em. What to do? Use ‘em as art supplies, of course. That’s exactly what Rolando did at La Plaza Cultural, a neighborhood park in the East Village, NYC. After hurricane Irene downed one of the park’s trees, Rolando and the local kids made a new one – out of bottle caps! Watch the video here, and get down with Freedom for the Kappini!
Roongrojna Sangwonprisarn, founder of Bangkok’s Ko Art Shops, creates custom rides enhanced with recycled car and bike parts. This pic is from a collection of images of recycling around the world put together by The Atlantic for America Recycles day, an annual event launched in 1997 by the National Recycling Coalition.
Wow, here we are on Vis island, in Croatia, and Thierry found the motherlode – of trash. Not the good kind of trash you can pick through for art supplies: this is the icky kind you don’t dare touch, a mountain of toxic stinkbombs wrapped in plastic bags with flies, birds and starving cats picking at it in the still-hot late September sun. Casual visitors won’t see it, of course, but if you like trekking through the hills, there are killer views of the bay just on the other side of Trash Mountain.
