Recycled Plastic from our Oceans
Surfing around the web this morning, I’m getting totally depressed reading about the amount of plastic crap that is choking our oceans. And seeing all the plastic crap that infiltrates my life everyday. It is so hard to avoid it! To lift my mood, I am finding inspiration from these necklaces that were created by designer, Barbara de Vries from plastic that she finds along the beaches of the Bahamas. Her website (which will soon be open to online shopping) can be found at: http://www.itsamanmadeworld.com/
Orange Cross Neck Piece – Not for Sale
Black Weave Necklace – $250.00 – Made from a segment of black grid
Turquoise Grid Neck Piece – $450.00 – Created from a turqoise blue crate that had been rolling around in the ocean for years and strung on found blue fisherman rope.
A percentage of the proceeds of these jewelry pieces will go towards the Cape Eleuthera Institute. An organization based in the Bahamas, which researches resource management and sustainability geared to marine and island life.
If this is your thing, more recycled plastic jewelry from the oceans can be found here.
And here are a couple of sites that are helpful for learning how to live with less plastic:
Fake Plastic Fish, The Rubbish Diet and My Zero Waste. This post was inspired by reading Plastic Pollution Coalition’s Facebook Fanpage.
May 10th, 2010 01:28
What amazing necklaces. it really is incredible what can be made from discarded materials. What a fabulous charity you’ve highlighted. Thanks for the mention too – it’s much appreciated.
May 10th, 2010 01:58
Hiya
Thanks so much for covering this topic and including a link to our site – I really appreciate it. I find it so inspirational to see creative people making beautiful products from our discarded materials
Warm wishes
Mrs green
June 13th, 2010 17:21
I must say that I absolutely adore this blog. I think it’s wonderful that people are starting to see that not everything should be disposable and that beautiful things can evolve from what would normally just end up in a trash bin somewhere that is headed to gaum up our landfills!
I think it’s time that everyone put our Green caps on and started educating ourselves on what we can do on an individual level to help lesson our race’s negative effect on the environment. I think that it’s important that we do what we can at home and in our everyday lives even if it is as simple as watering your Garden with recycled water that you caught in a rain catcher. I bought one last week from http://www.greeneutopia.com and my kids absolutely love it. I have trained them that it is better to recycle the water that comes down naturally than to pull it needlessly from the tap.
If you are interested in that site they also had alot of information on current Green issues and Trends as well as some tips on how to inject more ‘Green’ into your life. I hope this resource can help out other Green families like mine (http://www.greeneutopia.com)
God Bless and Go Green!
-Sabrina Ahmed