PLASTIC FANTASTIC
Bottles brought to life: PET that you can pet
By Plasteurope.com staff
When it comes to recycling plastics, we are avant-garde. Mechanical processes bore us, and we want nothing to do with that chemical stuff (if only because we couldn’t afford the electricity bill). Our latest craze in terms of plastics reuse is a process that we’ll call “biological recycling”, something that has been perfected by Czech artist Veronika Richterová.
When it comes to recycling plastics, we are avant-garde. Mechanical processes bore us, and we want nothing to do with that chemical stuff (if only because we couldn’t afford the electricity bill). Our latest craze in terms of plastics reuse is a process that we’ll call “biological recycling”, something that has been perfected by Czech artist Veronika Richterová.
 Plastic bottles become the molecules of new life forms: the PET-croc (Photo: Michal Cihlár) |
For 20 years now, she has been breathing a second life into thousands of used PET bottles by moulding them into flora-fauna folk art, or PET-ART, as she calls it. Nearly all walks of life are represented, from cacti and mushrooms to jellyfish and penguins – and even a life-size crocodile.
It’s not clear how many old plastic bottles were used to craft the over-three-metre-long artificial reptile, but we like the idea behind it: the primeval creature harbours hope for a cleaner environment, but it doesn’t snap – evolution at its finest.
— Translated by Andru Shively
12.07.2024 Plasteurope.com [255614-0]
Published on 12.07.2024