Olympia Dumpster Divers doesn’t love trash, we love the creative ways folks have found to reuse trash: Nolasalvage creates heart picture frames and other crafty things out of recycled wood, salvaged metal, mardi gras beads, junk jewelry, buttons, and sometimes … Continue reading →
Okay, we know that technically it is year of the Rat, specifically, the Earth Rat (FYI, Ruby Re-Usable is an Earth Dog), but since Olympia Dumpster Divers tend to be collectors of junk, we can relate to those rodents that … Continue reading →
Attention all Washingtonian artists who upcycle, recycle, repurpose, recreate, or otherwise use tossed and found objects to create art: The Seattle Re-Store has a call out for the 6th Annual Recycled Art and Fashion Show, which will be happening in … Continue reading →
The Visible Trash Society, founded by that white trashionista Little Shiva, is about conspicuous consumption redefined. It is trashy good fun and educational, too, NOT just another green shopping blog (we do support sustainable and environmentally conscious artists and businesses, … Continue reading →
Ruby Re-Usable is working as an itinerant artist at Loyal Heights Elementary School in Seattle, creating autobiographical recycled art dolls from plastic bottles, old socks, fabric scraps, telephone wire, and whatever else is available (like all that colorful acrylic yarn … Continue reading →
Ruby Re-Usable has been busy making new friends and finding upcycle artists via her new Flickr and Etsy accounts: Virginia Fleck makes amazing wall-sized mandalas from sections of used plastic shopping bags; she also runs a teen service organization called … Continue reading →
Ruby Re-Usable hoards the little pull tab on aluminum cans and sometimes uses them in her artwork, but she tends to toss the rest into the recycling bin (or saves them for Second-Hand Sid, who gets cash for them somewhere). … Continue reading →
Alice at Aluminous Publishing likes Ruby Re-Usable’s masks made from plastic milk jugs; check out Aluminous Publishing’s list of other interesting Recycled Art and Artists. Gaza Bowen is an artist who created sculptural shoes (some from recycled materials, like the … Continue reading →
That’s the title that Molly Gilmore, freelance writer and calendar editor for daily 0, wrote for this great little blurb in The Olympian’s Weekend Planner (the best of the next week and beyond): The Capitol Theater debuts two new shows … Continue reading →
Are you listening? Olympia Dumpster Divers digs all things recycled, reused, repurposed and salvaged from the scrap heaps, rescued from the rubbish bin, or otherwise reclaimed and refashioned. All you dumpster divers, eco-warriors, sustainability soul-searching citizens, and the rest of … Continue reading →
