Landfill Decomposition Rates

Recycled Plastic Bottles on Landfill

Landfill Decomposition Rates

Newspaper: 2 to 4 weeks or longer

Milk Carton: 5 years

Cigarette Butt: up to 5 years. & leaches toxins into the ground

Aluminum Can: 80 to 200 years

Plastic Milk Jugs: 500 years

Plastic Bags: hundreds of years

Plastic Drinking Bottles: hundreds of years

Glass Bottles: tens of thousands of years

Styrofoam: no sign of ever breaking down

(Figures from ecocomic.com)

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Recycled Chopsticks and Hanger

Hanger Lamps

Chopsticks Folding as Fruit Basket

Coat Hanger from Broken Chair

Courtesy of: eco-artware.com

‘Breaking the Bottle’ by Mark Reigelman at Heller Gallery

Mark Reigelman: Breaking the Bottle at Heller Gallery

Brooklyn-based artist mark reigelman has created ‘breaking the bottle,’ a site-specific installation on display at new york city’s heller gallery. taking cues from the handmade glass defenses found on fences and rooftops worldwide, this work encrusts twelve household objects, including chairs, lamps, and a bearskin rug, in protective layers of broken shards. the collection is placed on a pedestal with dimensions matching the artist’s childhood living room, arranged to suggest a familiar domestic landscape. 
all images courtesy of mark reigelman

More on this LINK: http://www.designboom.com/art/mark-reigelman-breaking-the-bottle-at-heller-gallery/

Recycled Old and Defective Watches

Your old and defective watches can turn into a motorcycle miniature.