Zero Waste – What a goal!

Sometimes it’s the things that surprise you which come to mean the most later on, and stay with you the longest. Granted, that may be because most of the time it’s a bad surprise, but today I’d like to talk about a good surprise.

There’s something you should probably know before I share my story of surprise: I come from a generation where, if your bin was not full to the brim on trash day, the general reaction was ‘I don’t have much waste in my bin, I wonder if there’s something else I can put in’, which, as you may have guessed, is in stark contrast to today’s sentiment which goes a little more like ‘I don’t have much waste in my bin. Go me!’

Keeping this in mind, you can imagine my surprise when Matt from Zero Waste SA told me that the total waste they generate each week that goes off to landfill takes up less room than an orange! Isn’t that astounding? That just about blew my socks off – and the next revelation he shared with me finished the job!

Unlike hard plastics, which you can recycle without too much fuss, if you want to recycle soft plastic (like bubble wrap), in Australia, there isn’t a commercially viable option – you have to pay for it. Now, most people would say ‘that’s preposterous!’, but not the folk at Zero Waste SA: they think it’s so important to minimize waste that they pay for the soft plastics to be recycled.

So, with all of this wonderment, is it really any surprise to you that Art Logic is involved in Zero Waste SA’s initiative to display pieces of art made entirely out of recycled and waste materials in their offices? As soon as we heard about it, we thought it was a fantastic idea and immediately put out a call to action for our artists. And as you can see, they responded magnificently!
We even managed to lure two of the artists away from their studios to pose alongside their work – a feat in itself!

^{Stephen Skillitzi with his ‘Aquamarine Fumerols’, made from recycled optical glass.}

_{John Woffinden next to his ‘Music Maker’, a piece crafted entirely from recycled red gum and found iron.}

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^{Jacqueline with Marcus Possingham's 'Delicate Feather' and Roland Weight's 'Rectangular Assemblage'.}

^{Stephen Skillitzi again!}