subscribeWho's done the Green Thing?
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Do June’s Green Thing. Do the Recycled/Reborn thing.
When you chuck something away, you’re effectively slamming the door in its face, calling its mother something unpleasant and saying you never want to see it again.
But the thing is, you will see it again - and rather than being something useful like before, this time it’ll be something noxious.
Maybe it’ll have turned into a greenhouse gas after decomposing in a landfill site – or perhaps it’ll come back as acid rain after being incinerated.
Either way, you’ve killed it before its time and it will haunt you like some kind of vengeful, pollution-spewing poltergeist.
Which is why this month’s Green Thing is to recycle everything you possibly can for one day. Make sure your rubbish ends up Reborn as something new and beautiful instead of trashing our environment.
And don’t forget to let us know when you’ve Done It so we can jot up how much CO2 the ever-expanding Green Thing community has saved.
Things to help you do the Recycled/Reborn thing...
Take America's best toy designer, let him the streets of Brookyln, give him some thrown away zappers, saw blades and a recycled water bottle and what does he make? A magnificent Recycled/Reborn Green Thing, what else?
Jesse Hackett aka Elmore Judd goes to a recycling centre, picks up some random bits of metal and wood, uses them to make some amazing instruments and then uses them to make some amazing music. We are not worthy.
Guardian journo and interviewer extraordinaire Laura Barton takes a walk through the city of London and finds some thrown-away papers and magazines which she recycled into a poem. And even more impressively, it’s great.
Swedish art collective Glimpse make some dazzling garb out of some tawdry garbage. The clothes could have been rubbish but actually they’re brilliant and the circuit board waistcoat is of genius. But will the Swedish public wear them?
Nashville’s finest paranormal investigator recycles some cans, a cat and has a theory about Americans and why they each get through seven trees a year in paper products. And like many great theories, he has this one on the toilet.
Featuring drummer Tom Skinner, this tyre-wire picking fencepost-drumming three minute slice of ambient brilliance is an open and shut case for the creative potential of recycling. “Recycle my junkyard brain/I’m born again” sings Jesse. Exactly.
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Do it everyday not just for one day. We only put out 'rubbish' every few weeks now as nearly everything is reused, recycled or composted. Hooray!