Here is a great idea. It is the ultimate recycle. The Pollocks art collective recently opened a temporary shop named Worthless. It plays with notions of consumerism and the perceived value of material objects. Participants brought in random objects to the London store that they considered junk, everything from old hard drives to tattered shoes. The Worthless team then transformed all the cast-off goods into unique pieces of art. Customers were then able to buy back their submitted items for whatever the felt they were worth.
You can see a video about the project at the PSFK post on the effort.
This idea might catch on. Instead of throwing stuff out, have an artist make into an art work. Many great art works have started from junk. Why not have this done for you?
Send me an email with a picture of your junk and I can give you an idea of what I might do.
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