Creating awareness creatively

On this table are creative ideas on how to recycle trash into objects of beauty that could be given away or used as decorative items. You will see glass bottles naturally coated with barnacles, wave-polished bricks and shells that are used as receptacles for small plants. There are also photo frames made from discarded chocolate and moon-cake boxes. The orange item on the right is an aluminium can that had been cut artistically to look like a peacock and in the centre is a toilet-roll holder made of newspapers and a discarded plastic roll that used to contain specialty paper. It takes very little for two of my colleagues to put this little display together to create awareness amongst staff. All that was needed was an event that we could ride on free of charge and the coming together of like-minded people who wanted to spread the message of recycling to colleagues in a small way.