Exceptional Work of Art
"It is the line between creativity and passion that makes a work of art distinctive"Creative minds always responsible for every art they made. Even a single crown cap can turn out to be a distinctive output of arts through creative minds.
By merely looking at the cap, you won’t be able to appreciate it, that aside from sealing the top opening of a bottle, what are the other importance or uses of that bottle cap? Yoav Kotik is on a mission to change the way people think about this trash.
Yoav Kotik is an Israeli designer who creates attractive jewelries out of bottle caps. He was inspired by environmental issues. His unique jewelry sets from his “Precious Metal” collection are part precious (metals like silver and gold, as well as precious stones) and part junk (mainly useless bottle caps, bent or carved into unique artworks).
These bottle caps are collected from various places and cultures around the world. Apart from jewelries, he also creates varieties of flowers and chandeliers from bottle caps.
Bottle caps are usually colorfully decorated with the logo of the brand of the beverage. These colorful designs from caps are its special features that can be transformed into a fashionable arts and decorations. His unique masterpieces which includes, bracelets, necklaces, rings, and pendants were all made from bottle caps.
Imagine these things were made out of bottle caps? With a little creativity and devotion from what you are doing and a goal to help the environment, are the reasons why someone would craft things like this out of throw away materials.
Arts never choose its object, because good designs come with the combination of good sense, passion and imagination. Art doesn't need an intelligent one but an enthusiastic heart.
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Bottles are Up
Night is always badge by the sound of glass bottles hitting each other. After a wild drink, you’ll find them in trash; no importance at all once the content was gone. What if these bottles were able to transform into a work of art?
Refresh Glass LLC are doing this by designing those bottles into glassware. Refresh Glass began as an effort to combine our passions for art and engineering with a great cause. Refresh Glass LLC is a Phoenix-based company that produces unique features of empty wine bottles into an artistic way.
The project was founded by Ray DelMuro, a former manufacturing engineer from Pasadena, California. The business started in year 2008. DelMuro’s aim is to divert 10 million bottles from landfills. Especially now, where in waste disposal is an increasing environmental concern, and the main reason why space for landfills become more scarce. This was according to Ashenmiller an Occidental professor who specializes in environmental economics.
Refresh Glass collects more than 15,000 wine bottles a month from more than a dozen of Phoenix-area hotels and bars. Aside from helping the environment, they are also helping out these hotels and bars to save money, because they don’t need to pay for garbage hauling. Their mission is to introduce their artful items as affordable and accessible without costing a lot, nevertheless in a valuable quality.
There are many good reasons for recycling bottles. Aside from reducing environmental waste, it is also helping everyone to become creative without too much cost.
Arts doesn’t have come to a cost, all we need is the capacity of doing things out of throw materials, and a notion for creativity as what Refresh Glass believe, “Everything must be touched to be truly appreciated!”
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Environment's Number One Problem
Healthy citizens are the assets of the society. But, having only a healthy citizen is not enough, it should also encompass a healthy environment.
As we can see this generation’s environment is a big dump of garbage. This garbage composed of numerous waste specifically plastics. These plastics are not dispose correctly because the waste that people produced is unregulated, the reason why plastics are scattered everywhere. Plastics such as bags, bottles and containers usually end up in canals, rivers and sea. These plastics obstruct canals and water ways.
Plastics last for years it takes hundreds or thousands of years for plastic bags to breakdown, meaning polluting the environment thousands of years as well. Plastics are pollutants of environment. According to Publilius Syrus, “Good Health and Good Sense are two of life’s greatest blessings,” blessings that should be used to expand our senses regarding the issue of pollution.
We can’t stop the increasing numbers of plastic production. "The numbers are absolutely staggering," that was according to Vincent Cobb, an entrepreneur in Chicago, Illinois. From the data released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 2001 on U.S, plastic bag consumption range between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags were consumed worldwide.
Remember the floods that caused by plastics and other waste? The wrathful ground of the environment due to plastics affects hundreds and thousands of families, properties and even life. The damage could have been reduced or avoided if the plastics that congested on canals and water ways were cleaned up.
Plastics don’t obliterate only properties, but the life under as well, which includes fishes and other marine areas or the sea itself. They’re made from petroleum or natural gas with all the attendant environmental impacts of harvesting fossil fuels. One recent study found that the inks and colorants used on some bags contain lead, a toxin, which is hazardous to life of fishes, shrimps, shellfish and other life on sea.
Now, the challenge is in our hand. Through our own little way let's put together our sense and awareness, and help lessen waste especially plastics. Because a healthy environment is the reflection of a healthy citizen and a wealthy society.
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