Lately I’ve become really interested in how some artists are turning one person’s trash into another person’s treasure. I’ve written 8 articles so far on this concept and will surely write more. The idea of turning garbage into an art medium is so creative that you cannot help but fall in love with the idea even if you aren’t artistically inclined yourself. In a world that seems to be overflowing with garbage, this idea of a sustainable source of artistic material has come of age. Check out the links below if you want to see some pics of what I mean! 
Artistic Recycling: Five Interesting Maps
How does society view the object that it throws away in comparison to the object it treasures? Upcycling is changing people’s minds and hearts when they stop to reconsider what is “garbage”. 
Artistic Recycling: Incredible Upcycled Dresses
This is the sixth article in my “Artistic Recycling” series, which highlights creative ways to reuse what most people would throw away and transform it into objects of great value. This article features paper dresses of Susan Stockwell. 
Artistic Recycling: Amazing Uses for Leftover Bottle Caps
People are slowly becoming more aware of their effects on the planet and environments around them. As we awaken to the realities of pollution and other serious environmental issues, we need to find ways to solve our “man made” problems. Upcycling is a way of converting our garbage into other things which can be used and enjoyed again. 
Artistic Recycling: Metal
This is my fifth article on artistic recycling. These articles all involve making something worthless into something priceless. It takes a lot of skill to take our cast-offs and see them from a different angle — on of an artistic medium. Thinking what can be made of this instead of how can I get rid of this. In this article, I highlight an artist named John T. Unger and his incredible uses of scrap metal.
Artistic Recycling: Plastic Bottles
About 23% of plastic water bottles are recycled. This leaves an astounding 38 billion water bottles in landfills. It takes over 1.5 million barrels of oil to manufacture a year’s supply of bottled water. That’s enough to fuel 100,00 cars for a year. The popularity of recycling, reducing, and reusing has increased in recent years. These methods can help to reduce the amount of wasted oil and landfill space.
Artistic Recycling: Egg Cartons
This article is the second in a series of Artistic Recycling articles. These articles highlight ways that trash can be turned into treasure. This piece involves the reinvention of cardboard egg cartons into canvases which can be viewed from a never ending series of angles and view points. The cups of the egg cartons obliterate some of the perceptive angles of the viewer.
Artistic Recycling: Tea Bags
There’s a website called Original T-Bag Designs that sells art made of used tea bags. Talk about reuse — they make some beautiful items from what most of us would just throw away. And these designs are helping to lift some artisans out of poverty! 
Artistic Recycling: Retro Upcycled Recods
Upcycling is the process of taking something of little value and increasing it’s worth through transformation of the raw product. Records are a great example of a raw material that has been transformed into many different objects. However, records aren’t just being made into clocks these days. There is a whole world of artistic recyclers out there putting scratched and unwanted records to great re-use.
