The first thing that will hit your eco-consciousness in the recent times is the overfilled landfills. Moreover, polluting the natural environment also brings with it several health hazards too, making the air around you inappropriate for breathing. Thus, preventing the frequent disposal of non biodegradable products in the landfills is the first step you can take to prevent environmental pollution. Here are ten such examples of stunning pieces of art created made from disposable paper cups that might inspire you.
1. Recycled Yogurt Cup Chandelier
Yogurt cups are made from plastic or paper is thrown off after the contents inside them have been consumed. They hardly have any other use than getting dumped inside the landfills. But the creative designer, Kianee thought of a different end use of these yogurt cups. You will be surprised to see how these yogurt cups have been arranged together to make a unique chandelier. You will definitely love to treasure this chandelier, which is made from multicolored yogurt cups. Seventy such used yogurt cups have been used to make this chandelier.
2. Milestone Eco Design
If yogurt is a part of your ever day diet and thus, a cup is generated every time you complete your lunch or dinner with this healthy desert, then you can be an important part of this movement for recycling wastes. Milestone Eco Design is a kitchen made from recycled yogurt cups. As many as seven hundred such cups and recycled wooden chips were used to make the cabinet of this kitchen. The sink is also made from recycled steel while the lighting is of conservative style, emitting only 5 to 7 watts.
3. Naturwall 1
Designers at Designobis have been toiling hard to think of ways of protecting the nature from thousands of plastic and paper cups that are thrown away every day. Thus, they have thought of vertical wall gardening with used cups. Simple metallic holders with holes at their centers are mounted on the walls with hoops. Now, the recycled cups are transformed into small pots and filled with soil and manure. Plants are planted and finally the cups are inserted inside these holes. This is a brilliant idea of interior decoration as well.
4. Concept external hard disk
You will really love this amazing external hard drive. It is the brainchild of Franco Marino Cagnina, the Kansas based industrial designer of Argentina. Initially, you can mistake it with a simple paper cup. But it is actually the most futuristic external hard drive that has functions similar to the conventional one you have been using so far.
5. Cup’o Lights
The team of designers, namely Chengyuan Wei, Guanyun Wang, Ye Tao, Jianxing Cai, Chao Chen & Xuanxing Yang have thought of an excellent reuse of disposable paper cups. They have slitted the cups into half and affixed them with adhesive in the form of roof tile. They have finally mounted a light inside this structure to make it a beautiful lamp.
6. Lighting from Disposable Cups
This lamp of Luis Luna is known as Hangover. The designed assembled together used paper cups that have similar color. Then he turned them in such a way that their bottoms face outwards. The cups were fixed together and mounted on the wall with a lamp inside.
7. Spotted by CollabCubed
This unique lampshade, made from disposed paper cups, plastic spoons, tapes, etc is created by the designer, Christian DuCharme. As many as three hundred thrown away stuffs were used in order to create this piece of beauty. The shape of this lamp resembles a sphere and has been made by slitting and fixing these cups.
8. Coffee Cup Chandelier
This spherical chandelier is a great item of home decoration. Made from plastic cups this biodegradable chandelier is spherical in shape. It has been made by fixing together a number of such cups in a manner in which the bottom part of each of them faces inwards and the opening is towards the exterior part.
9. Butterfly sculpture
This biodegradable butterfly is the outcome of the creative mind of a team of designers. It is a centerpiece at one of the shopping malls of Bangalore in India. Numerous paper cups were stitched together wisely to make a giant butterfly.
10. ‘Untitled’ Cloud Formati
New York based designer, Tara Donovan, who has been famed for making art works with recycled crafts. This is another astounding creation of the designer. She has created cluster of clouds with used paper cups.
