Environmental Graffiti

When Trees Grow From Toilet Rolls [PICS]

The crass thing to do here would be to serve up some toilet gags, but with art this beautifully executed, it just wouldn’t sit flush. Japanese artist Yuken Teruya works with everyday objects to craft wonderfully intricate worlds, producing art out of the mundane and discarded. Cardboard toilet paper rolls are one medium for his creative expression, but he has also worked with pizza boxes, McDonald’s bags, flags and more.

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Glass Made From Human Waste

Inspiration knows no boundaries. And Kitengela Glass, an art colony near Nairobi National Park, have been particularly enterprising with their inspiration. They make glass and beautiful glass art like that shown above with the help of human and animal faeces. That is, they use methane gas to create energy for their ovens and kilns – not for the glass itself as we first thought.

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Underwear Made From Soda Cans

There’s recycling and then there’s recycling madness. Designer Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch has a penchant for using almost anything she can get her hands on. From a young age she would visit hardware shops with her dad and since has always found some way of combing unlikely materials into usable pieces.

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