The Hattiesburg Pocket Museum’s June Exhibit has turned trash into works of art.
In the U.S., each person produces an average of 5 lbs. of trash a day. That’s a total of 293 million tons of trash per year!
Where does it all go?
Well, for some, trash is not destined for a landfill. Instead, it is recycled to become art.
Artist Caren Loy is mom to a large blended family, and has devised a creative way to reuse mountains of old schoolwork papers that accumulate during each school year. Caren taught her children how to make their own sheets of “new” paper from old, used ones. Not only is Caren teaching her children about recycling, but she is also teaching them to be creative about ways to reuse trash.
For June’s exhibit, Caren has taken trash and created critters. Critters are curious little beings, much like artists. So, let your curiosity run wild as you gaze into the tiny critter museum and imagine what you can make from found or discarded materials.
