Impact Your World- Garbage for good

This is a creative and inventive idea to make trash into some useful and beautiful goods and attract people to buy their trash back. Great idea! I hope they can come to Taiwan and teach us about that.

垃圾變商品。
Garbage for good
In Indonesia, one woman is helping those who make their living by picking through trash while also aiding the landscape with an environmentally conscious line of products.

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Ann Wizer's Trashy Art

Ann Wizer is a visual artist and environmental activist living in Jakarta since year 2000. In Jakarta, there are over 450.000 garbage scavengers or pemulung picking over around 6 tons of trash of the city’s residents. Wizer sees this as an opportunity; she employs local scavengers for trash and then hire some of them to wash, sort, and sew the salvaged items into patterns that she designs. She manages the production under Project XS, an initiative developed by the artist herself, in collaboration with a community of local scavengers in both Jakarta and Yogyakarta.

Not only that she makes fashion shoulder bags, but also furniture, chandeliers and pop-artistic installation created almost entirely using garbage and waste, specifically plastic coated ones. Aided by Angki Pubandono and Areifianao Tedja, Wizer has also produced a documentary movie [Link] on the project and its production process.

Interested in purchasing one of these artsy trash totes? Go straight ahead to XSProject official website.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — It feeds the poor and helps clean the streets and rivers. Handy for the beach or gym, it’s become one of the hottest fashion accessories in town. It’s the ultimate garbage bag — a plastic tote made from trash.

Chic and environmentally friendly, the bags are the brainchild of American artist Ann Wizer, a Jakarta resident whose sculptures made from consumer refuse are displayed in Asia’s most prestigious museums.

“Trash is my art medium,” Wizer says during a break at her spacious studio in South Jakarta, which is decorated with a mannequin clad in a tea-bag suit and where guests sit on stylish armchairs stuffed with shredded, plastic-coated paper.

The 50-year-old artist made her reputation with sculptures fashioned from disposable chopsticks, toothbrushes, plastic bottles, and even rubber sandals that washed up on a favorite beach.
Then she decided to see if she could create jobs for the poor and help the environment at the same time in a developing country where recycling is virtually nonexistent and garbage poses a serious health threat.

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